re: #238 silverdolphin

Tesla exaggerated EV range so much that drivers thought cars were broken

Somebody committed fraud and needs to be sent away for an 𝕏-tra long time.

Lying to the customers is what those smart business people built their entire business model around.

We (implantable medical device company engineering design team) once had a marketing director ask us to change the input parameters into the validated longevity estimator for a soon-to-be-released Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy defibrillator (CRT-D, for those in the field). He felt that would give his team a leg up on the competition when it came to marketing and wouldn’t be technically lying.

Thing is, while putting in use parameters like 0% cardiac pacing and 0 shocks delivered per year might actually happen for 0.5% of the patient population, those parameters are nowhere near average use case. We shut him down quickly with extreme vocabulary. Not sure why he left the company a few months later.

If interested, battery longevity for the implanted CRT-D at that time would have been up to 15 years if you actually don’t really use the device (0% pacing, 0 shocks, extremely limited data/telemetry from the device) compared to 7 to 10 years of real use.