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by globalise83 623 days ago
What is an "unlikely event" for any given passenger is nearly a 100% certainty for Tesla. The engineers and product managers who came up with that solution probably have trouble sleeping at night these days.
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Someone told me something that stuck with me: "for any system with millions of users a 1 in a million event happens multiple times a day"
I think the original quote was "One in a million is next Tuesday": https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/larryosterma...
I bet they wanted something more obvious but were overridden by someone who wanted to keep the vehicle sleek and futuristic. If so, it's the worst kind of "I told you so" :/
But who at Tesla would do that?
It's quite a mystery, isn't it?