Yeah, but since it's charging faster, it'll be done before the inaccurate temp readings allow the actual cable to melt. Or, if it's not the charger in your home and you're using someone else's charger, who cares if it melts. That's someone else's problem as long you get your batts topped off. At least, that's my cynical internal dialog for the world's mentality today.

Nothing pedantic about it. We live in an era where people ought to understand the difference between power (measured in watts) and energy (measured in joules, or calories, or watt-hours).

But for some reason this is widely misunderstood, resulting in frequent errors and poor decision making. The Times, a generally-reputable UK newspaper, once published a front page headline declaring that electric vehicles would require the equivalent of 20 new nuclear plants to be built in the UK. None of their fact checkers noticed that the entire article was based on an error that confused GWh (energy) with GW (power).

Don't like to see comments like these. I think it violates several HN guidelines, including this one:

> Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

Unfortunately there is no report button.

Not in their use case, which is the entire "perhaps this is a bad idea" take.

The fire alarm IS the senor, it's an alarm, it's in the name, it's pretty obvious to most people what happens if you fuck with it and what the consequences are, and people still do to combat false positive alarms.

But most people have no idea about the senor(s) in tesla charger plugs, since it's a plug, not an alarm. How should it be obvious for the average layman without open disclaimers? People always tend to fuck with stuff they don't fully understand if someone tells them that doing something quirky means extra oomph.

And forget about people putting towels on it, what about rain or wet debris falling on it? Seems like edge cases that should have been covered during the concept and design phase by EEs with experience. For something meant to survive and be used outdoor these are not even edge cases.