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We've known for years that the owner is a lying, creepy, out of touch dipshit and that it's a very flawed car and the company will cut costs to save money on safety items, every time.

Electric vehicles with drive assist are awesome and are the future, but there are alternatives, especially if you have money, which a lot of Tesla customers do. And they're not particularly well built; how many of these do you think will be on the road 20 years from now? And now we've seen how Elaine runs their companies, why the hell would anybody put their trust in their products?

If you've bought a Tesla in the last five or so years, you're a damn goober in my eyes. That's my hot take, prepared for being called poor and other sodium, tear filled comments from fools whose opinions don't matter. You are the hardcore, foaming at the mouth Segway fan from the 2000s, have at me lol.

Update: The teary eyed, sweaty fingered responses to this are predictably hilarious. I've been called a guy that eats 4 pizzas a week in another old thread because of this, a cunt, a tool, a douche, a couple people spent their energy to tell me they don't understand me spending my energy posting this, some people are telling me something about Tesla or Elaine living in my head rent free. All genuinely pathetic responses, so GG lol. Cheers.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Makes a lot of sense. I don't think I would put my life in the hands of a company whose culture was built heavily on a mantra of "move fast & break things." That motto gets us really sweet tech, sure, but as soon as it matures to the point that lives depend on it, it's better to have it built by someone who takes making it safe & enduring seriously. And Elon, by many accounts, is a manchild in his fifties who still thinks 420 and fart jokes are funny, and shoves that onto his customers.

I myself am not in the market for any car right now, my bicycle is likely to last me a few more decades and the trains & busses, although a little pricey in my area, are still reliable enough that I can depend on them for my regular needs. Though someone in my family is looking to get an EV in the somewhat nearby future (and solar cells on their roof), so that's something to consider...