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Tesla gives UK owners grabbing stick after forcing them to get left-hand-drive

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Re: Tesla gives UK owners grabbing stick after forcing them to get left-hand-drive

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How is it worth to lose the UK, AU and Japanese market with this move? I'm seeing a lot of Teslas in London, I don't see how eliminating the right-hand configuration is justifiable economically. Yeah it might be a ball ache to design a car that supports both driving styles, but all brands with global reach have to deal with it. The grabbing stick is equivalent to being told "fuck you for living in one of those countr…

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Re: Tesla gives UK owners grabbing stick after forcing them to get left-hand-drive

#33
post #8

How is it worth to lose the UK, AU and Japanese market with this move? I'm seeing a lot of Teslas in London, I don't see how eliminating the right-hand configuration is justifiable economically. Yeah it might be a ball ache to design a car that supports both driving styles, but all brands with global reach have to deal with it. The grabbing stick is equivalent to being told "fuck you for living in one of those countr…

Elon’s ego getting into Tesla decision making.

Re: Tesla gives UK owners grabbing stick after forcing them to get left-hand-drive

#34
post #9

I didn’t realize it was legal to drive left hand drive cars in the UK. Isn’t that generally less safe? I’m really surprised a company this large would end support for the right hand drive configuration.

It's also legal to drive right-hand drive cars across Europe. It's less safe, but not against the law.

There's an urban legend around a medicine student who put a skeleton in the passenger seat of his RHD car and drove it around Germany...

Re: Tesla gives UK owners grabbing stick after forcing them to get left-hand-drive

#35

I didn’t realize it was legal to drive left hand drive cars in the UK. Isn’t that generally less safe? I’m really surprised a company this large would end support for the right hand drive configuration.

For me, the worst thing would be "muscle memory". Never had a problem driving a rental car with right-hand-drive in the UK or Ireland. Different thing was the bicycle, after stops, I often forgot to start driving on "the other side", and I suspect I would be just as easily fooled in a car with left-hand-drive.

Re: Tesla gives UK owners grabbing stick after forcing them to get left-hand-drive

#36

Teslas shouldn’t be allowed on the road

I'm more wary about the huge SUVs and trucks people are buying. No consideration for pedestrian or children safety at all. Being unable to see a row of 5+ children in front of your car is a recipe for disaster when that car is used to drive your own kids to school..

Re: Tesla gives UK owners grabbing stick after forcing them to get left-hand-drive

#38
post #4

Sounds like The Onion.

I was wondering if they had pulled off a wonderful April fools joke...

As an aside, The Onions video social media nowadays is on fire - they play the serious delivery of stupid stories far too well.

Re: Tesla gives UK owners grabbing stick after forcing them to get left-hand-drive

#39
post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I didn’t realize it was legal to drive left hand drive cars in the UK. There is a tunnel from UK to France, would be weird if only British cars would be allowed to use it :P

That's a train tunnel.

As well as passenger trains from e.g. London, the channel tunnel carries car and truck trains, named Le Shuttle - which move either people in their vehicles, or for trucks, the vehicles and then a coach of drivers who can chat and eat food during the trip. These leave from nearer the tunnel on both sides.

Re: Tesla gives UK owners grabbing stick after forcing them to get left-hand-drive

#40
post #8

How is it worth to lose the UK, AU and Japanese market with this move? I'm seeing a lot of Teslas in London, I don't see how eliminating the right-hand configuration is justifiable economically. Yeah it might be a ball ache to design a car that supports both driving styles, but all brands with global reach have to deal with it. The grabbing stick is equivalent to being told "fuck you for living in one of those countr…

Frankly, kind of glad see less edifices to that moron here (Australia).
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