The fact that you're making excuses for being a terrible driver with no visual awareness
A rim doesn't curb itself. Get better at driving and stop curbplaining.
1. Why don't you just tell me to bow down to perfect drivers like you who never make mistakes instead? Oh wait, cars
don't just spontaneously get rear ended. And even though it's not
legally your fault if you get rear ended, you can often avoid it by paying attention to what's going on behind you and either honking your horn to tell the guy behind you that he was being a dumbass, quickly moving out of the way if there was space to do so, or moving out of your traffic lane prior to traffic in that lane suddenly slowing (the most dangerous spot on a freeway is in the lane whose traffic is backed up the farthest).
2. Did you
tell your father the same thing? It sounds like
the ladder wasn't moving. Why didn't you share your secrets of how to be a perfect driver with him before you let him drive your car?
Of course if you were more mature, you'd understand that
foregiveness in design is a good principle for engineers to follow. It's the realization that most humans do make mistakes from time to time and it seeks to make products that (1) Reduce the chances of errors occurring and (2) Minimizes the negative consequences of human errors when they do occur. In short,
designing for forgiveness is about preventing or minimizing the consequences of errors. And it's something that Tesla's wheel designers suck at. My car's wheels have never been curbed a second time since the first incident, but that's because my wife and I are super careful when parking along curbs now. But just take a look at most Teslas in parking lots that are more than 3-6 months old and you'll quickly see that this is a design foregiveness problem. My previous car and my wife's previous car both had zero curb markings on the wheels because those wheels were designed for foregiveness and what happened with the Model 3 wasn't anything that hadn't happened many times with our previous cars. The only thing that changed was the design of the wheels. I'd like to give the designers of these wheels some special cell phones whose displays are designed to spontaneously shatter if they're dropped onto a surface from a height of more than 2 inches. If they complain, I'd just tell them well, you're not
supposed to drop your phone! Maybe they'll get my point after that happens, because they've done the automotive equivalent of a phone display that shatters when dropped from 2" high.
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