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MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com 11 months ago“Tesla has a new feature that will disable your seat controls if you keep messing with them”
KingJalopy@lemm.ee 11 months ago
SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
This is so stupid. Why would a company put this much effort to lock down the seat controls, as if they didn’t already exist without limits on every other car? Not even with a toggle? These companies are really trying to destroy the “cars = freedom” association.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
They get disabled for 5 minutes, probably to give the motors time to cool down.
Gestrid@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
If the motors need to cool down, they need to rethink their motors.
barsoap@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Motors get hot and it’s quite reasonable to not include tons of cooling just so that you can adjust your seat for hours on end.
That said the implementation is still stupid as time isn’t the right measure to judge motor temperature, motor temperature is. One thermocouple, basically a calibrated resistor, which the motors probably already have. Which would also take care of differing environmental temperatures as obviously the motors are worse at shedding heat when it’s scorching hot in the car.
psud@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Rethink a motor designed to be used for 5 mins initially then occasionally in future? It’s fine for the design purpose. It’s even fine for the mode where it operates every time you get in the car (where it waits in fully back position, and moves forward when you operate a control)
Why should they think it to let it be used as a fidget toy?
SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Phew, that makes a lot more sense. I thought it permanently locked them