> It would be prohibitively expensive and overkill most of the time.
I don't think purchasing a spool of spot tie costs much more than electrical tape and neither does heat shrink.
> Zip ties are mostly not allowed for QC reasons.
Collateral duty inspectors (and QA) ensure quality work so this is not the case. All work done is always inspected by someone who is an expert and did not participate in the maintenance.
> All but the worst electrical tape will take 20+yr to come apart
I have seen electrical tape come apart in just a few years.
> if things fall apart in the air it's a bigger deal.
If an autopilot system receives incorrect input it could kill someone.
As an aside, I've worked on military aircraft (Avionics), and I have seen what happens when a wire is loose and in contact with a vibrating surface.
>I don't think purchasing a spool of spot tie costs much more than electrical tape and neither does heat shrink.
No it doesn't but Tesla doesn't exactly have a mature vehicle manufacturing operation.
>Collateral duty inspectors (and QA) ensure quality work so this is not the case. All work done is always inspected by someone who is an expert and did not participate in the maintenance.
This is usually not the case in general aviation. Its my understanding that this also not the case for a lot of commercial operators, especially the smaller ones with thinner margins, but my knowledge may be out of date.
>I have seen electrical tape come apart in just a few years.
Yeah, 20yr is probably an exaggeration for tape applied by rushed assembly line workers but I've seen a heck of a lot of 20yo tape (usually used to bundle wires) on commercial vehicles. Most older wiring harnesses use "harness tape" (which is basically just electrical tape with some cloth fibers in it) to keep the wire from falling out of split loom and some use electrical tape to bundle wires in some places.
>If an autopilot system receives incorrect input it could kill someone.
You could say that about a lot of things. Technology is mostly at a point where it takes a cascading failure to kill anybody. The autopilot algorithms are far more suspect then even the most lazily assembled hardware.
>military aircraft
In the military they have tons of bodies to throw at things so everything gets triple checked. This is not the case in the commercial world.
I don't think purchasing a spool of spot tie costs much more than electrical tape and neither does heat shrink.
> Zip ties are mostly not allowed for QC reasons.
Collateral duty inspectors (and QA) ensure quality work so this is not the case. All work done is always inspected by someone who is an expert and did not participate in the maintenance.
> All but the worst electrical tape will take 20+yr to come apart
I have seen electrical tape come apart in just a few years.
> if things fall apart in the air it's a bigger deal.
If an autopilot system receives incorrect input it could kill someone.
As an aside, I've worked on military aircraft (Avionics), and I have seen what happens when a wire is loose and in contact with a vibrating surface.
That said, again, I have no experience with cars.