Randahl FinkDec 26, 2023

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 […]

Show threadSteve HerseyDec 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?

Show threadRandahl FinkDec 26, 2023
@n1xnx humanity pays a heavy price for our tendency to idolize.
Show threadSteve Hersey
@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.
Dec 26, 2023 at 4:21pmWeb