All this tells is car producer haven’t reached peak profit yet. As with every product in capitalist humanity, they’ll now tweak the quality to be in line with the combustion engine cars. Anyone remember the story about light bulbs? How they’d last almost forever, but it was secretly decided that this is bad, as customers would never need to buy a new one, so they intentionally made them worse. eCars are still too new, so they are not daring enough yet.
Anyone remember the story about light bulbs? How they’d last almost forever, but it was secretly decided that this is bad, as customers would never need to buy a new one, so they intentionally made them worse.
WTF are you smoking? I think I’ve replaced 1 led bulb since switching to them 10 years ago.
As far as I know he’s talking about the old filament bulbs. And it’s actually a myth or at least a bad example of planned obsolescence. It is possible to make a light bulb that lasts virtually forever, but they would be expensive. It was a compromise between lifetime and production costs.
And where do you get those led bulbs? Mine break all the time…
Leds bulbs are definitely made to be break in a few 1000 hours. They push them to their max specs so they don’t last as long. But this way of course they sell more, no one wants to sell a bulb that lasts 10 years of continuous use.
As always, dependa what you buy. Initially, LED lamps were advertised as lasting 25 years, but nowadays you have much cheaper lamps, and more expensive ones.
GP is actually not totally wrong. The crappy light bulbs of the EVs is called Tesla.
The light bulbs being designed to fail is a myth. Light bulbs can last theoretically forever but when they are extremely dim. Ever seen the centennial light? You need to view it in a darkened room because it produces almost no visible light. The lifespan of a lightbulb is a function of the required brightness and power consumption.
All this tells is car producer haven’t reached peak profit yet. As with every product in capitalist humanity, they’ll now tweak the quality to be in line with the combustion engine cars. Anyone remember the story about light bulbs? How they’d last almost forever, but it was secretly decided that this is bad, as customers would never need to buy a new one, so they intentionally made them worse. eCars are still too new, so they are not daring enough yet.
Edit: thanks for the comments who backed me up.
WTF are you smoking? I think I’ve replaced 1 led bulb since switching to them 10 years ago.
As far as I know he’s talking about the old filament bulbs. And it’s actually a myth or at least a bad example of planned obsolescence. It is possible to make a light bulb that lasts virtually forever, but they would be expensive. It was a compromise between lifetime and production costs.
And where do you get those led bulbs? Mine break all the time…
LOL maybe they are talking about LED bulbs then and I just bought mine before they went to shit.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel
It’s called planned obsolescence and is a well known aspect of modern product design, no conspiracies required.
Leds bulbs are definitely made to be break in a few 1000 hours. They push them to their max specs so they don’t last as long. But this way of course they sell more, no one wants to sell a bulb that lasts 10 years of continuous use.
If you’re buying cheap Chinese shit from a supermarket, then yes. But even my IKEA LED bulbs are in their 8 year without a sign of degradation.
LEDs don’t fail, cheap Chinese LED drivers do. Because they’re utter shit and a fire hazard.
As always, dependa what you buy. Initially, LED lamps were advertised as lasting 25 years, but nowadays you have much cheaper lamps, and more expensive ones.
GP is actually not totally wrong. The crappy light bulbs of the EVs is called Tesla.
The light bulbs being designed to fail is a myth. Light bulbs can last theoretically forever but when they are extremely dim. Ever seen the centennial light? You need to view it in a darkened room because it produces almost no visible light. The lifespan of a lightbulb is a function of the required brightness and power consumption.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26946432