I would not buy a Tesla. There is a real risk they will end up as a dominant exploitative player in the personal transport marketplace.

A little like all the others in US giants who appear superficially politically correct - but whose behaviours and market dominance we have come to regret and desperately need better regulation - Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, etc etc

There seems to be a level of electronic interference beyond which it is unwise to go.

ABS, TPMS, ESP, is all good stuff + all the emissions electrotrickery which you cannot avoid, is about as far as I want to venture into the geek's world.

I think I posted a while ago that it would be necessary for manufacturers to enhance the failure rate of electric vehicles, which were otherwise likely to have commercially unacceptable reliability.

They cannot predict the failure rate of microchips, so would have to look at other ways of doing it, but electronics by way of computers should have a lifetime of use without problems

The big but, is, will they or can they? its anyone's guess

Well, they could just go old-school and make them really badly. Think Lucas only more integrated/less repairable.

We had the technology and the Chinese could probably acquire it.

Elon Musk is not likely to go that route, he wants reliable long lasting cars, so he says, the fact certain components wear out or go wrong is not his fault.

his problem is finding reliable components, though have to say Intel are slowing down Tech wise, but I gather Tesla are now using Samsung chips which are possibly the best, but only time will tell?

It might not be Elon Musks fault as he does not run the company day to day but it is someone's fault at Tesla.

I think I posted a while ago that it would be necessary for manufacturers to enhance the failure rate of electric vehicles, which were otherwise likely to have commercially unacceptable reliability.

They cannot predict the failure rate of microchips, so would have to look at other ways of doing it, but electronics by way of computers should have a lifetime of use without problems

My BIG, BIG Y2K overtime (which I negotiated on behalf of my team, p***ing off management, who had something derisory in mind, then never got around to claiming, DUH!) suggest there are options available.

<< The millennium bug that wasn`t, but made some a lot of money trying to fix >>

There were problems, but only for systems written in 1970s code which assumed that all years began with 19.. Better to have prepared for it rather than waiting to see what happened. There may be a message for Brexiteers there somewhere :-)

We had one or two issues with 3Com stuff that was supposed to be compliant but wasn't.

If we hadn't upgraded everything to be compliant, we''d probably have had more, so I wouldn't say it was a fiction.

In context, it suggests firmware can be time-aware, so if you wanted to build in predictable failure I'm pretty sure you could do it.

The millennium bug that wasn`t, but made some a lot of money trying to fix, remember it well..

I worked for a major bank in 1997 and many of our core systems only stored dates as 2 digits.

In just one example, the standing order system would have collapsed on day one of 2000.

We tested a rollover to 01/01/2000 and transactions were not processed. The system would not process backdated payment instructions so if you set up a standing order on 01/01/1999 to pay £100 a month to someone, come 01/01/2000 the payment wouldn't be made because the system thought the start date had not been reached.

There were thousands of lines of code that needed changing. Then testing to make sure they worked. There were also some exotic little used languages. Most systems were written in COBOL, some were in ALGOL, a really old one was in FORTRAN. Getting programmers with the requisite skills was difficult. There was a shortage because lots of organisations were having the same issues.

Databases also had to be updated as well.

The millennium bug that wasn`t, but made some a lot of money trying to fix, remember it well..

Or was it because people knew about and did something about it?

I was working for a large telecoms company in the late 1990s and the issue was huge. Mostly things were ok and coped, but our major customers wanted it all to be tested and verified as working before the date changed. It was all the testing, or code verification, that took a huge amount of effort. So, thankfully, come the day there were no issues, and, at least in the telecoms industry, it was all sorted ahead of time.

As for Tesla's memory chips, I am not able to comment. I certainly would not like feature deivery or removal overnight. It's bad enough on my old 3 series BMW. Chang s happen when it goes into the dealer, for example the tyre pressure monitor used to have a yellow and a red warning with appropriate sounds and indication. One day some twerp must have thought one warning, the severe one, was all that was needed. So now the first sign if lowering tyre pressure, even by a small amount, is a LOUD bong sufficient to cause my passengers to leap out of their seats. Now if that is a good idea then BMW are deluded.

I don't think so: I was working this morning and I haven't looked at the forum until now. I would delete posts only if they were offensive or spam.