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Elon may be going down a conservative rabbit hole these days, but this is the sort of thing Tesla would never ever ever do. And things like using the telematic system to sell your location and speed to insurance companies. Never happened on a Tesla. You may not like the guy, but the cars are fucking solid.
Tesla's have their own privacy issues, and build quality issues . Tesla's staff have been caught spying on their customers and sharing sensitive images of people .
That practice was halted and now the vehicle video is under MUCH stricter control with an option to not share any of it at all.
Given the choice, I'd rather have some Tesla employee joking about what I park next to than Tesla Inc selling my driving data to insurance companies like most other automakers do...
Try driving through a car wash without activating "car wash mode". 😂
I've done it. I think it might have opened the charge port or something. What do you think happens?
Doesn’t Tesla lock larger battery capacity begging a paywall?
That was from years ago.
Tesla used to sell cars rated by pack capacity. For example the 'P85D' was the performance model, 85 kWh pack, dual motor.
There was also a 40 kWh (cheaper) and 60 kWh version.
After a while they stopped building 40 kWh packs and just software-locked the 60 kWh pack to only have 40 kWh of usable capacity. I think for a while they offered an upgrade where you could pay to unlock the extra capacity.
I don't think they've done that in some time. I know when I bought my car (model y long range) they didn't even advertise the pack capacity nor was any upgrade offered. The only paywall thing I've seen with Tesla is FSD and they're pretty transparent about that. I don't think they're awful for paywalling it, because if they build the car without the FSD hardware it won't have other safety systems like lane departure notification.
Rainbow road mode is a bitch
Oh, he's just going down a rabbit hole! He's going on a cute little adventure where he does a fucking Nazi salute in front of the whole country, then proceeds to recklessly dismantle huge parts of the US government, but it's all just part of his magical little journey! Teehee!
Just give him a few more weeks.
Tesla? You mean the Ford Pinto of EVs?? https://www.rawstory.com/cybertruck-2671127676/