noone1:
Whoopsy:

You assumption is flawed. You expect humans to behave in a certain way, that they will charge a EV religiously.

Real world people don't. The general public is stupid, period.

I came to that conclusion a long time ago, when I was in the IT business. In programming, some people write codes expecting a certain things to happen, that users will behave as we expect them to, and do things that we expect them to do in whatever sequence that we expect them to. 

One time there was this form filling interface, the programmer expect the form to be filled from the top down, and when the last box gets filled, it will automatically advance to the next page. Nothing wrong with that on the surface, expect real world humans do not always fill boxes from the top down. Needless to say, the program keep crashing during testing and the programmer can't figure it out why anyone would not want to do it logically from the top down, so he did't code in the alternatives. 

It's weird you came to that conclusion with your example because that example is clearly a case of a terrible programming idea. The problem isn't that most people don't fill in forms from top to bottom, it's that the programmer assumed people don't accidentally miss or skip field, let alone decide to fill a later form first. I've definitely filled forms out of order with good reason. I can't imagine ever programming a form such that the order of field entry is even cared about.

You missed the entire point, btw. The whole point is that with a normal EV, unlike the 918, you don't have to charge religiously. Let's say you have 220 miles of range. The average daily mileage in the US is about 30 miles. That would mean you have 7 days of range on average, and therefor you could charge it at any time during a 7 day stretch to restart the countdown. You could charge it on day 2, day 4, day 7... up to you. As long as you charge it one night in any given 7 day stretch, you're fine.

Charging once a week does not imply charging religiously. And it's not like it doesn't tell you how much you have left. It will be the same as your gas light. When it comes on, it means you can't get to work tomorrow unless you plug it on. Chances are that you're going to plug it in, just like chances are you're going to get gas.

 

No, you completely missed the point. 

The point is, humans in general are not logical, and they do unexpected stuff. You might expect a certain outcome based on logical thinking but the general public may not be that logical.

Say a Tesla can last 7 days for a full charge. You are quite correct that people might not charge it every day, they might charge it every 2 days or 3 days. Some might even charge it on the last day, like people do in a gasoline powered car, used up the whole tank before refuelling. But some people do forget which day it is and forgot to plug it in on the last day for whatever reasons. 

Just like the Americans. People all around the world are logical and buckle up where they get in a car, but for some reason the Americans doesn't like being buckled up. We RoW cannot even try to understand that thinking. 

How about traveling? Airports all around the whole forbid carrying guns to an airplane, it doesn't mean everyone will obey, very often we read a news story about someone trying to bring a gun pass TSA.

 


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