Tesla Motors’ Devastating Design Problem

[TheWraith]

38. Since you appear to want to drag me into this sub-thread...

Yes, there are safeties. And I have no doubt that those safeties are sufficient for the 99.8% of people who did not manage to fuck up their cars. I also have no doubt that this person referenced in the story--and the other four, if they actually exist--did considerably more to damage his car than is accounted for here, such as running it down to zero multiple times, and probably also leaving it there for quite some time. Under those circumstances, no battery will survive, but it's easier and more satisfying for the owner to blame Tesla and claim it's a design flaw than to accept personal responsibility for the fact that they fucked up.

Putting your objection into other words, "You mean to tell me having a complex device fail because the user abused it and ignored the most basic maintenance is acceptable?"

Or let's analogize it to existing technology: "You mean to tell me that having a $100,000 car die because the owner drove it for a year without ever changing the oil is acceptable?"

There are only two conclusions here: some people are horribly spoiled by the assumption that technology is just going to take care of itself and they never have to do anything about it, and some others are using this as an excuse to spread FUD.