The hardware folks picked fancy stuff that was not intended for automotive use. Look up the screen yellowing for an example — no manufacturer would sell a screen in the size Tesla wanted that was rated for hot car interior temperatures, so Tesla went with one that wasn’t.
1.4 drive writes per day is a shit ton of a lot of writes to hit a drive with daily. this is a computational not an automotive concern, & a pretty frelling heinous oversight at that.
I wonder if a “cycle” is actually a full drive write. If it is, then they have ~11GB/day, which is nuts, at least in the pre-dashcam models. But I can easily imagine that a cheap eMMC part has poor wear leveling and eats a “cycle” after much less than 8GB.
It's not, the issue was there is no wear leveling, so it's 1.4 writes per day. This is approximately 2 trips a day, 5 days a week. Reading between the lines I believe the car "eats into" the 3000-5000 cycles everytime it is cycled on.
