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Oh it's why I bought a Chevy Bolt EUV. A way better car for less money. Teslas suck in the electric car world. They opened everyone's eyes to the possibilities. But that's it. It's no longer the only option.

I would say its worse than Apple in those regards. At least Apple's hardware, though way overpriced, is decently made. I don't think anyone in the world ever said that about Tesla.

I thought the cars were mediocre at best and overpriced. The more I learned the less i liked them.

• Primary door function being completely electronic with a warning that using the manual release could damage the car.
• Proprietary navigation, so traffic data only comes from other Tesla's.
• Lack of lidar, which has been the standard for accident avoidance tech since forever.

I hate Apple and always thought Musk was a tool. But, apple products are better than Tesla products. Apple is still overpriced as shit, and has bullshit gatekeeping, but they make solid products, you have to give them that.

Tesla on the other hand always had absolute shit build quality.

People kept circle jercking about how great the software was, but it always thought it was idiotic.

Not having physical buttons / handles is beyond insane to me and I could never buy a car that made me jump through hoops to fucking raise the temp in the car.

Then there's autopilot, people were raving about that, but again, are you going to trust your life to a company that can't even get two body panels to match properly?

I'm for advancement and every tech has its growing pains, but musk was always a piece of shit, and Tesla's mission never seemed to be "make the best car for the consumer", it was always "what fun shit does the man child want us to play on today?"

I remember Tesla having decent looks compared to the other fugly electric cars at the time. The hybrids weren't terrible like the Prius but they all had that "look"

Yes, here is some Lemmy Points that will only apply to this comment and nowhere else :)

I'll give you points if I get some too. Have been hating on Tesla since I graduated college and started working in silicon valley. Learned very quickly that every single engineer hates Musk and that Tesla was an awful company to work for.

I interviewed with them once and all my friends in the field were telling me not to. They basically stack their entire company with H1 visa slaves, pay them half of what non H1 employees would get, and work them to death because their visa is tied to their employer.

This is common practice in silicon valley but Tesla really took it to another level. So I've been hating them since I graduated in 2015.

Yup, scarce population and welfare states, they would benefit from a national infrastructure program they seem so opposed to.

I thought they already switched to diapers?

That was just to make room for the SSuperchargers

Don’t worry, the dogebags are putting all those buildings on Zillow anyway.

This has been worked out in a bunch of states like New Jersey because of hardcore lobbying from tesla

Fuck Tesla but direct sales make sense. Fuck dealership middlemen more. If I can save several thousand dollars buying directly from Nissan or whoever instead of padding some douche who’s only adding a high pressure sale and maybe some oil changes

Good thing they're all so law abiding!

Well that's why you need a proper ass licking sack of shit like Desantis. He banned direct sales of cars but put in a loop hole for Tesla's like the one he owns. Pretty sure he just let the dealerships write the bill and then they tidied it up. If you've never met a voter who likes to get fucked in the ass, meet a Desantis voter

You are correct. You buy them online and they ship from California and you register them in Texas. Texas has showrooms. They can tell you about the car but they can’t sell you the car. You have to buy it online.

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When Leon built the factory in Texas, they did not receive the ability to sell the vehicles in state. That may have changed, I haven't been following.

What an idiot. Musk will never love you, you corn pop

"He attached “Make America Great Again” and “Fueled by liberal tears” stickers to his car, which he says was maybe not the best idea."

I'm just guessing this passive income fella is gonna have to buy a new car soon

It's kinda a win/win either republicans buy Tesla's in droves and help accelerate the decline of oil or Musk makes Tesla untouchable by anyone from any corner of the political spectrum and the entire company collapses (which might have the added benefit of forcing more electric adoption because Tesla receives a large portion of it's revenue through selling emissions credits to auto manufacturers that refuse to build more efficient vehicles)

Right? Wouldn’t it be hilarious if conservatives finally embraced EVs just to own the libs, only for progressives to sweep the White House and ram through Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, strong unions, and tuition free college? Like, "Thanks for upgrading the grid, now step aside while we fix everything else you broke."