> Musk’s perpetual lies [...] are well known
Hear hear.
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> starts yelling at you to put the seat belt on the second you start the car Unrelated too but in France you must put your seatbelts before starting the car. It’s the law.
There are exceptions, also in France. I think the most relevant one here is for medical reasons or body shape. So if you have a passenger who is exempt from the rule you have to live with your car yelling at you.
You ca de activate I though in car settings? Or by bridging the speaker with a resistor.
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Probably because you don't get a spare tire so you have to wait until road side assistance comes to you.
... what does roadside assistance do in that scenario? They can't be carrying spare tires of every variety, and the equipment to fit them .. this just sounds like a terrible non-solution to a solved problem.
Most of the time the car is put on a car recovery truck and driven to a garage.
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> From what I understand (and I may be completely wrong), those "astonishing and good" parts, about the design of the vehicle itself, were already mostly in place before Musk managed to place himself as Tesla's CEO (which is an interesting story in itself). I find it very hard to know what's true about such a polarising figure. Personally I don't think it's likely that Musk has done what he's done without talent and…
I think a big part of the problem is that people tend to see things in black and white (or rather, fail to account for nuance). Elon is a massively intelligent and business savvy guy with strong engineering talent. He is also unhinged and an absolute idiot. Both things are true at the same time and in different ways. People tend to let one of the two perspectives overwhelm their impression of him as a whole.
I think it depends how you assess people. It's "Says the thing a large group of us have deemed impolite" vs "Working hard to build an optimistic future based on large technological improvements". I can imagine people who take the time to be good at assessing either of those find it hard to care about or understand the other one.
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I'm really having trouble understanding how a company with the best selling car on the entire planet (more Model Ys sold than Toyota Corollas or RAV4s in 2023) can be accused of "under-delivering".
Under-delivering is always compared to your promises. And they significantly over-promise, and, thus, consistently under-deliver. Especially at the company level - look at the Cybertruck and electric trucks - way over schedule, under powered, and under-delivering on every single metric they claimed originally. FSD is the other major example - which has been "fully autonomous safer than a human driver by the end of th…
No other manufacturer comes close to Tesla's autonomy so it's not like people are gonna go and choose a competitor over that. Cybertruck, likewise, is amazing, so it really doesn't matter what the promise was as long as the product remains the best on the market, and sells. And their cars sell. Really well.
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#96A Tesla used to be called the "best car ever made" — eleven years ago. In 2013 Consumer Reports called the Tesla Model S the best car it had ever tested. The Model S earned a score of 99 out of a possible 100 in the magazine's tests. "If it could recharge in any gas station in three minutes, this car would score about 110," said Jake Fisher, head of auto testing for Consumer Reports . Fisher called the car's performa…
Tesla focused on FSD almost exclusively and everything in the car's software suffered because of that and stupid decisions to remove hardware. Autopilot is on a separate branch from FSD, not getting significant updates with the promise that at some point, it'll be merged with the FSD branch and it'll be super awesome - this year for sure, but maybe next year or 10 years after, look we made a robot that's definitely n…
I can't believe how much relentless online bitching there is about the sensors. You won't find anything approaching FSD in any other vehicle you could buy. Autopilot remains the most reliable autosteer product on the market. Smart summon sucks, so what - you won't find it on other cars and it might improve in a huge way with OTA. Unlike other cars. Autopark sucks big time. It might improve. It might not. Clearly, given the sales, online commentators care way more than actual consumers lol.