>"I want to clear my name. I wish Elon Musk had the decency to apologise," is her message to the company’s billionaire boss.
Know this: You will never get a narcissist to genuinely apologize.
My battle with Tesla: I want to clear my name before I die
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Re: My battle with Tesla: I want to clear my name before I die
#12Reportedly, Tesla is having a big issue with their accelerator pedal right now. The thin metal cover of that pedal is not always thoroughly secured and slides off easily, wedging itself into the carpet behind the pedal. This causes the accelerator to be stuck (at high velocity!). https://insideevs.com/news/716031/tesla-cybertruck-stuck-acc... As a Tesla customer, you are part of the QA team. That's what you get when…
"As a Tesla customer, you are part of the QA team."
More like a stunt team.
Re: My battle with Tesla: I want to clear my name before I die
#13Its honestly baffling how out of porch Tesla has fallen. I remember the times around when Model S first came out, the security of the car was one of the biggest praises it received. It excelled in crash tests, I don't know if this is still the case, but recently it seems like the car wants to kill you so it can show the developers which process needs improvement.
"it is all about deleting just a bit more than you feel comfortable with"
Re: My battle with Tesla: I want to clear my name before I die
#14At this point, how could anyone even contemplate buying from such a scummy company? ... (not necessarily staff, although you'd have to assume that many of them have bought in the Elon hype and are, as such, complicit). If branding means anything in this day and age, how can you associate yourself with such scummy brand? As a customer or employee? I was a fanboy a decade ago. Wouldn't touch them with your bargepole no…
> At this point, how could anyone even contemplate buying from such a scummy company?
Sad to say it but Tesla is still miles ahead of the competition in specs (power, torque, speed, range) at the respective pricepoints.
Re: My battle with Tesla: I want to clear my name before I die
#15carpets on the older cars is still a problem. They had round adhesive velcro patches that stuck to round smooth areas on the underside of the carpets. These would velcro to pucks that screwed into the floor carpet
there all kinds of problems - the picks would come loose, and the adhesive holding the velcro patch to the carpet would come loose in a hot car.
and the carpets would bunch up, usually under the accelerator pedal.
A lot of interior stuff was redesigned better for the newer cars, but then they killed most controls and put them on the touchscreen, ugh.
(No shifter stalk anymore, car guesses direction you want to go, no turn signal stalk, no headlight/wiper stalk, etc)
Re: My battle with Tesla: I want to clear my name before I die
#16Reportedly, Tesla is having a big issue with their accelerator pedal right now. The thin metal cover of that pedal is not always thoroughly secured and slides off easily, wedging itself into the carpet behind the pedal. This causes the accelerator to be stuck (at high velocity!). https://insideevs.com/news/716031/tesla-cybertruck-stuck-acc... As a Tesla customer, you are part of the QA team. That's what you get when…
"As a Tesla customer, you are part of the QA team." More like a stunt team.
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Re: My battle with Tesla: I want to clear my name before I die
#17Move fast and break things... not the brightest idea with heavily regulated markets when we talk about 1st world countries human lives. But I'll probably die of old age than witness that massive childish ego admit a fuckup in any possible way. Till then, voting with my wallet and avoiding teslas like plague, novelty of cool tech gadget is long gone and reality seeps in.
"Move fast and break people" would be an apt corporate slogan for Tesla.
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Re: My battle with Tesla: I want to clear my name before I die
#19At this point, how could anyone even contemplate buying from such a scummy company? ... (not necessarily staff, although you'd have to assume that many of them have bought in the Elon hype and are, as such, complicit). If branding means anything in this day and age, how can you associate yourself with such scummy brand? As a customer or employee? I was a fanboy a decade ago. Wouldn't touch them with your bargepole no…
> At this point, how could anyone even contemplate buying from such a scummy company? Sad to say it but Tesla is still miles ahead of the competition in specs (power, torque, speed, range) at the respective pricepoints.
I don't drive, and I've not looked for a while, but just from the car stuff I see on YouTube, surly Hyundai are getting pretty close?
Re: My battle with Tesla: I want to clear my name before I die
#20At this point, how could anyone even contemplate buying from such a scummy company? ... (not necessarily staff, although you'd have to assume that many of them have bought in the Elon hype and are, as such, complicit). If branding means anything in this day and age, how can you associate yourself with such scummy brand? As a customer or employee? I was a fanboy a decade ago. Wouldn't touch them with your bargepole no…
I bought into it back in 2017 before the marketing facade fell. I was a fool, an idiot and a moron. As an actual qualified engineer I should have looked at the whole situation in detail and read through it. After owning my model S for 9 months I sold it because it was full of quality issues and I did not feel safe driving it on a daily basis especially with my kids in the car. It regularly just slapped the brakes on and it the gains were well overstated. The doors didn't close properly, the trim didn't line up and the windscreen spontaneously cracked when it was parked in an underground garage for 2 days. Charging was a constant nightmare as well because all the limited fast chargers were either slow or busy all the time.
The experience was so bad I went to a bottom end second hand 1.0L Citroen with physical tactile controls only. I owned that for 6 years. The entire cost of the vehicle, the ownership, the fuel and all maintenance was less than the depreciation of the Model S in the time I owned it.
A lot of people are hanging on marketing and hope. That's not a safety conscious decision. It's a bad company with bad products and dubious claims.