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Just turning off the enormous amount of crap written to syslog would probably have added years to the eMMC life. Why did it take them so long to do that?

If you drive a car with the Tegra CID and current software, you get the distinct impression that they really wish all those cars were dead.

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It's intentional. Tesla wasn't covering these repairs under warranty and are upselling people with failed MCUs to MCU2 upgrades which cost $1500+labor.

If you search around, you will also find countless posts of people being denied warranty work for their Tesla's or fixes only being billed as good will after the customer fights back.

Tesla didn’t care because there was no impact on them for their poor logging configuration until a regulator stepped in (as the costs were borne primarily by the customer).

They probably also do want cars with lifetime supercharging dead (which are primarily MCU1 vehicles).

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