4 minutes ago, MX-5 said:

and that you never, ever try to help or educate people without having the full panoply of supporting evidence available

I just try to have a shred. 

 

 

You asked for evidence about how a particular system (the battery management system) worked. I provided a link to a page from a very large, reputable battery manufacturer explaining how it was implemented. I even spoon fed you with the appropriate paragraph, to save you having to read the whole page.

 

No, I didn't drill down to the next level, for reasons that I explained. It would be impossible to live life by investigating everything from first principles. I trust the Škoda engineers who designed my car to have done the job properly, just like I trust the Shell engineers who designed the petrol that I put into it, and the food scientists at Tesco who have created the lasagne that I'm having for dinner tonight.

 

And yet that wasn't enough for you - you criticised me for "just parroting stuff I'd read" (as if any of us have ever said anything completely original) and got on your high horse about "try to have a shred" of evidence.

 

I'm out of this discussion now. Anybody who puts a new battery in their (battery management system-equipped) Yeti should by now fully understand the advantages of coding it. Anybody who chooses not to should at least understand some of the risks they take.