“Thank God we drafted Trubisky”

Having to pop your kneecap back in place is bad, bad news. Mahomes probably won’t be back for at least a couple of months. If the poor dude damaged his patellar tendon, it could be season ending. 

Dislocated patella.  May be back soon, or not, but not a good sign for long term knee health and stability. RGIII redux. 

He had a kneecap dislocation. Right leg, kneecap fell off to the right side. Same thing has happened to me twice, 12 years apart. I immediately recognized the leg cradle and the trainer putting pressure on the kneecap to slide it back into place. It’s incredibly painful when it’s out of place but it feels about 80%…

A lot of people in the 24-48 hours after the story first broke were confidently declaring that Morey was toast and would surely get fired shortly. It would have been really easy for Silver to buckle under to the explicit demands of the Chinese government. But it seems as soon as he didn’t, the internet outrage mob…

How would he go about firing someone who, as I understand it, does not actually work for him?

And a repair that costs $1800 on the low end or $5000 on the high end on a car that cost around $100k when new isn’t that surprising and does not make the car “worthless” as claimed in some of the dumber comments here.

Tesla panels use heat rated stuff. I work for a company that builds panels that survive extreme conditions. I have examined Tesla panels. They are consistent with industry standards. 

Is this what the world has come to? An Auto tech has to resort to surfing Gizmodo for the latest fix for a car. Can’t we just hit it with a hammer or something?

It’s far worse. The chip fails because the xwindow logging is cranked up. Every interaction with the screen generates tons of log lines. This whole thing could be fixed by turning down logging. People have been on Tesla for a least a year to figure this out. This is the first time they have acknowledged it.

The board can be swapped out. There are also people who will swap the memory chip on the board. It’s expensive, but not as expensive as scrapping the car.

The hardware engineer, product manager, NPI manager, and everyone up the chain responsible for reviewing MTBF here should be ceremonially hung upside down naked, covered in honey, and set upon by a colony of fire ants.*

Dude, like who owns a phone from 5 years ago, or even a tv? Should be the same with cars. Just throw it away and get a new Tesla! Duh.

We know they used non automotive screens that aren't rated for the heat of a typical vehicle dash. And they've proposed a wiper system on a linear motion rail system... in a car... with road grime. I laughed so hard when I thought about some poor fool trying to get it to work after a few years of wear. So nothing is…

This could be a case of choosing the wrong technology for the job. Although eMMC is in the “right direction” for what Tesla is doing, as a data logging choice, it’s a bit questionable - especially since they appear to have used an implementation that isn’t readily serviceable. 

Calculating MTBI isn’t hard, just tedious. Determining the read/write rate over time should be easy as it was in the programming. Comparing that against the specs for the chip should be dead simple. Fail.

What do you expect, their a tech startup, not a car manufacturer.

No. Really.
As a professional quality inspector, this kind of oversight is ridiculous.
Planned obsolescence, I get...but of a whole car?

No.   But seriously why isnt amateur-style boxing headgear mandatory for pros?

The hardware engineer, product manager, NPI manager, and everyone up the chain responsible for reviewing MTBF here should be ceremonially hung upside down naked, covered in honey, and set upon by a colony of fire ants.*