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If I were considering buying a Tesla I would 100% wait. Whatever you think of the company, their claims about what will happen in the future are often wildly optimistic in terms of timing. Better just to wait and see what they ship and whether/how well it works.
If everybody does that then Tesla has no future.
It's incredible that a company as irresponsible as Tesla is allowed to operate vehicles on public roadways. "Well, we dropped a bunch of safety features, we're going to try to add them back via software update in the near future" is not the behavior of a company that should be entrusted with public safety. Combine this with the fact that this is a choice to deliberately cripple the vehicle by removing a standard driv…
Claiming that Tesla is an irresponsible company is pretty strong in the absence of evidence. Do you have evidence that I can review to see in what ways Tesla vehicles are more dangerous than other vehicles? From what I can find Tesla vehicles are significantly safer in terms of accidents per mile, deaths per mile, and they have the highest safety rating of any vehicle. Of course I could be misled and you have evidenc…
safer than what tho. the average driving cohort? well not a great record, since it includes old vehicles and all kind of people, while the tesla entry price act as a filter.
> and they have the highest safety rating of any vehicle.
vehicles get a flat set of points for "soft" safety features like active braking and avoidance. the amount of death by people being burning when the bactery catch fire imply the real word performance doesn't always correlate to the score.