Because it may not be possible to transmit depending on location.
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Shanedino@lemmy.world 7 months agoIf the data is temporarily stored until it is transmitted and then is not considered to be needed anymore I see no reason as to why that would need to be stored locally forever.
michaelmrose@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Shanedino@lemmy.world 7 months ago
On embedded controllers you are usually heavily limited with nonvolatile memory.
ifItWasUpToMe@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Not sure why you think this, it’s generally trivial to add non-volatile storage to microcontrollers, and much more complicated to add external RAM.
michaelmrose@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Perhaps most importantly although we know it was not so lost because we read the article or at least the summary if it had been it would have been a deliberate design decision to have it be so.
Your explanation doesn’t wash in reality but it also doesn’t wash even in theory.
Shanedino@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You’re also making assumptions in that the volatile memory lost power and thus must have been cleared at some point. I dont think there is a right or a wrong based on the knowledge i have I just am throwing out a random guess.
michaelmrose@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The article says Tesla deletes it and was forced to produce it. Seems pretty obvious that your theory is wrong