Re: This would be why they are test sats
"Musk has demonstrated time and again he cares more about publicity than waiting for a product to be working properly"
I've seen a few examples of this. After there was a Tesla fire in an underground car park, Tesla released an update to the software before there was time to do an analysis of what happened. Was this something they already knew could be a problem with existing BMS (battery management system) settings?
When there was a reported issue with long braking distances, Tesla had a software patch out in a couple of days. I have to wonder if they did a full suite of tests or just a couple of dry pavement runs. It would suck to find out that with wet pavement, ice or gravel the braking was made worse.
Tesla owners are test subjects. Most other manufacturers will spend about 18 months testing from sub-systems up to final candidate testing on real roads before they release a new model. There isn't a good replacement for bottom up design. The assumptions you didn't know you were making and all that.
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