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When your Tesla car parts fail miserably, you realize you are a test pilot of an early prototype, so be glad if you survived.

This blog post hits the nail on the head:
https://defector.com/youre-supposed-to-be-glad-your-tesla-is-a-brittle-heap-of-junk

Via @Peternimmo

You're Supposed To Be Glad Your Tesla Is A Brittle Heap Of Junk | Defector

Tesla cars are shoddily built pieces of shit liable to fall apart and malfunction in dangerous ways at inopportune moments. No, this is not a blog from 2012! It is also not a blog from 2015 or 2018 or 2022. It is not even a blog from two weeks ago about Tesla’s self-driving systems killing […]

LillyLyle/Count Melancholia Dec 26, 2023

@randahl @Peternimmo I wonder sometimes if Elon is having poor quality electric cars made in order make EVs unpopular.
He seems to be very much in the hands of the petrostates.

Randahl Fink Dec 26, 2023

@LillyHerself I do not believe so, as 2/3 of his wealth will be lost, if Tesla goes bankrupt.
@Peternimmo

LillyLyle/Count Melancholia Dec 26, 2023

@randahl @Peternimmo Granted, but look at the Boring Company. It was just a ruse to delay and divert resources from building out public transport. Arab oil money bailed him out on the twitter deal as well.

older Dec 26, 2023

@randahl
It was long ago visible in stats from Norway that Tesla cars have unproportionally high number of failures compared to cars from other manufacturers.
@Peternimmo

Martin Vermeer FCD Dec 26, 2023

@randahl @Peternimmo This is cruel 😏

If someone asks me why my electric car is not a Tesla, my prepared answer is that I am not a Nazi. Perhaps I should add that I like to stay alive...

Shailesh Kumar 🇫🇯🇺🇸Dec 26, 2023

@martinvermeer @randahl @Peternimmo 👏👏👏

floydgump Dec 26, 2023

@randahl @Peternimmo Of course you should be honored to buy their over priced garbage. Supporting those less privileged billionaires is a Devine act.

Juho Mäntysalo Dec 26, 2023

@randahl @Peternimmo

While I agree that Tesla's products should be significantly better, arguing the non-existence of institutional knowledge isn't a very good take.

Steve Hersey Dec 26, 2023

@randahl @Peternimmo
A friend has a Tesla, and I recently went for a ride with him in it.

On the armrest are a small, inconspicuous button I assumed to be the window lift, and a large lever right at resting hand location, which I assumed to be the door latch.
WRONG.
My friend urgently warned me that the large, obvious lever was NOT the door latch, but instead some sort of emergency release that detaches the door such that it requires a dealer to reattach it. The tiny, unobvious button was the door latch (as I proved by experiment when I exited the vehicle).

Apparently, Tesla spent more engineering capital on adding the ability to make farting noises when turning than on basic ergonomics.

But sure, discount all of the criticism as Elon-hating. After all, what possible legitimate criticism could there be of a bigoted, egotistical, Nazi-coddling manbaby whose companies evolved management systems specifically to defuse his more insane inspirations of the moment and steer him away from breaking anything important with them?

And which of us hasn't paid billions over market buying a company and then driven it straight into the ground?

Randahl Fink Dec 26, 2023

@n1xnx humanity pays a heavy price for our tendency to idolize.

Steve Hersey Dec 26, 2023

@randahl
Sadly true. I have come to the view that we will (at best) always be in a pitched battle to maintain sane democratic systems with responsible leadership, since our governments will always contain some proportion of power hungry folks of bad intent, authoritarian nutjobs and their followers, and those who simply fell prey to the corrupting effects of being in authority.
Still, it could be worse; just remember the Thirty Years War.

Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦Dec 26, 2023

@randahl @n1xnx The above post BTW isn't even remotely accurate.

Steve Hersey Dec 26, 2023

@randahl @Peternimmo
I took one look at that aluminum steering member, fractured right through the attachment point, and screamed "aluminum is the wrong material for that application!"
I'm not an ME, and even I could see that the part was undersized for what it does. There are Reasons those bits are usually made from steel.

author_is_ShrikeTron🔠💉x7 Dec 26, 2023

@n1xnx @randahl @Peternimmo Maybe check your bias, check your facts?

The lever is the "emergency" door opener when all power is out. A great easy and obvious safety mechanism.

https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/model3/en_jo/GUID-7A32EC01-A17E-42CC-A15B-2E0A39FD07AB.html

In fact it's so great and well documented, you should be reported for aggressive misinformation.

#Tesla #misinformation

Steve Hersey Dec 26, 2023

@ShrikeTron @randahl @Peternimmo
Oddly, my friend who OWNS THE VEHICLE was the source of this information. Now, maybe he was mistaken, but it's his car...

Also, muting you as aggressively idiotic.

Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦Dec 26, 2023

@n1xnx @randahl @Peternimmo Like, this isn't even remotely true? It's just a door opening latch. The only difference between pulling that and using the button is that it doesn't crack the window down first, so it's not as gentle on your rubber seals. But people do it all the time.

I swear, people would believe literally anything negative about Tesla. You could go viral by making up the claim that you have to turn your steering wheel to activate your turn signals because Elon hates buttons.

Steve Hersey Dec 26, 2023

@randahl @Peternimmo

I'm seeing a lot of outraged disagreement in the replies. Let's assume, arguendo, that the information I got *from the car's owner* was wrong. It is STILL an ergonomic failure for the big, obvious lever placed right where your hand naturally lands to be some backup system for a tiny button in an obscure place.

Especially when the rest of the automaking world puts that primary control where your hand naturally comes to rest. (Why design a system that NEEDS a power-out backup rather than, you know, just working regardless?) User friendly design makes the system work the same way from the user perspective whether or not there's power, and generally follows common practice on what controls look like and how they work.

I'm done here, muting replies. The Elon fanboys can shout all they want.

Louise Locock Dec 26, 2023

@randahl @Peternimmo @ruairidhm 👆 one of yours!

Bishop Whitewind Dec 26, 2023

@randahl @Peternimmo lol

DROP\ TABLE Hacker of Earthsea Dec 26, 2023

@randahl @Peternimmo can't uses animals lol

@randahl @Peternimmo I'm just shocked on this crap...

Like #Tesla has worse #QualityControl than the #Trabant had!

And that was a piece of shit fiber-reinforced plastic car with rusty shit steel and a 2 cylinder 660cm³ aircooled, two-stroke engine that was gravity-fed from the tank right above it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No1-4GsQa-g
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabant

The Trabant Was an Awful Car Made By Communists

YouTube

Billy O'Neal Dec 26, 2023

@randahl @Peternimmo @sbi wow:
> Tesla hasn't "worked all the bugs out yet" is that the company is run by people who hold established best practice in ideological contempt, and is defined by a tech-industry culture that fetishizes innovation and regards product quality as a third-order concern. There simply isn't as much investment money and credulous tech-media adulation to suck up in the promise of iterating on what already works.

I’m reminded of times in my own career people go for something because it is the new hotness, not because it fixes anything

Keep Migrants, Deport MAGA Dec 26, 2023

@randahl @Peternimmo @tofugolem That writer is new to me, but his prose is first rate. I just went down a Defector rabbit hole, reading at least 7 of his articles. In a hundred years of effort I will still only write half as well

Thanks for sharing!

Tristan Nitot✓Dec 27, 2023

@randahl the friend of mine who owns a Tesla does indeed feel like a beta-tester. Or a pioneer. Or an adventurer. Or something like that. It's actually part of the appeal of being a Tesla owner. (I don't own a Tesla, I ride a bicycle).

Randahl Fink Dec 27, 2023

@nitot feeling like a pioneer is great.

Tristan Nitot✓Dec 27, 2023

@randahl It's a pretty good way to take money people while selling them a turd^W unfinished piece of metal, if you ask me 🙂

Randahl Fink Dec 27, 2023

@nitot I think Musk is making many short-sighted business decisions.

Thomas Ulich Dec 30, 2023

@randahl @Peternimmo interesting analysis from Canada: https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/12/08/Electric-Vehicle-Dream-Sputters-True-Climate-Crisis-Survival/

Poof Goes the Electric Car Dream | The Tyee

Sputtering EV promises, in 13 scenes. And the true road to surviving the climate crisis.

The Tyee

Thomas Ulich Dec 30, 2023

@randahl @Peternimmo This is also very worrying, if electric cars cannot be repaired just random new gadgets, having an initially much higher carbon footprint to produce, they can never earn those emissions back if their lifetime is very short… https://www.nrk.no/dokumentar/xl/hvorfor-lonner-det-seg-a-kaste-bilen_-1.15232892

Her moses nesten nye elbiler.

Hvert år ender hundrevis av nesten nye elbiler på bilopphuggeriet. Det lønner seg ofte å kaste framfor å reparere. Biler til en million kroner ender på skraphaugen.

NRK

Mark R. Stoneman Dec 31, 2023

@randahl I'm looking forward to crippling class action lawsuits.