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    “Bought this Tesla before Elon Musk became a huge asshole. Sorry”

    wait, Tesla didn’t exist back then

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      I’ve seen a lot of that, including tweets from bazingas that show wacky shit like car doors falling off but then say “STILL LOVE THE CAR THOUGH!” so-true

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      Yyyyyyyup. I was hoping to get away from reddit’s hivemind of “Teslas are shit cars” but with Musk at the helm I don’t think that’s possible. Are they perfect? No. Are they awesome? IMO, yes.

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        Tesla’s are shit cars though, and it has nothing to do with Musk. They have little to no driver feedback. The UX of their driver control systems are unresponsive and require the driver to take their eyes from the road. The idea of self-driving cars is a pipe dream that solves zero problems and simply aggravates existing individual transport problems.

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          Counterpoints:

          • Cosmetic build quality issues aside, they require practically zero maintenance (tires and windshield fluid) and there are less moving parts to break. So far they’ve proven to be very reliable.
          • Driver feedback is subjective and I find your claim straight-up obtuse in meaning. I quite enjoy windy roads and the smoothness of the EV drivetrain.
          • The UX of my Tesla is practically-perfectly responsive and most of what you want to do has either physical or voice controls.
          • Autopilot is good bordering great but still needs work. FSD is indeed a pipe dream with the current fleet.
          • It’s fast as fuck.
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            Toyotas require virtually zero maintenance as well. The difference is that when you do need maintenance, it doesn’t cost a kidney and you can find a shop anywhere with the parts and expertise, or do it yourself at home

            it’s fast as fuck

            How is this a good thing? 40,000 deaths in America due to cars. Every year.

            UX is perfect

            Lol. Everything is in the center of the car instead of right in front of me

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              Lol seriously? My passengers find the manual release by accident the first time they go to get out. It’s exactly where you would expect it to be.

              “Extra! Extra! Some people are idiots!”

              Keep trying, bud.

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                Keep trying, bud.

                What are you even doing on the FuckCars section of this site anyway? Do you want to be congratulated for your sunk-cost fallacy cope

                “Extra! Extra! Some people are idiots!”

                Some people say smug things like that, but then spend a lot of money on bad purchases and need to tell internet strangers that those bad purchases must be good purchases and any evidence to the contrary is from a bad source because it isn’t a Tesla circlejerk in your favor. fry

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            Cosmetic build quality issues aside, they require practically zero maintenance (tires and windshield fluid) and there are less moving parts to break. So far they’ve proven to be very reliable.

            This applies to all electric cars, this isn’t exclusive to Tesla. And other electric cars don’t have panel gaps.

            Driver feedback is subjective and I find your claim straight-up obtuse in meaning. I quite enjoy windy roads and the smoothness of the EV drivetrain.

            The Tesla drives like an appliance, particularly in comparison to what are often considered “driver’s cars”. Nothing wrong with it, but don’t expect car enthusiasts to like it.

            The UX of my Tesla is practically-perfectly responsive and most of what you want to do has either physical or voice controls.

            most

            voice controls

            Physical buttons are superior, and have been for decades. Voice controls and touchscreens are decisions made on a budget basis, not a UX basis, because they are objectively worse. It’s corner-cutting, not improvement.

            Autopilot is good bordering great but still needs work. FSD is indeed a pipe dream with the current fleet.

            Are you calling Musk a liar?!? FSD has been coming “next year” for like six years now!!!

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              Translates as: “I drive like an absolute cunt.”

              Translates as: “I actually have no idea how this person drives.”

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        Did they fix the fact you can’t open the door from the inside if the power is out without an instruction manual and fingernails?

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        Awesome? I can’t even find the odometer without going through 50 different menus. And the brain genius wants to implement a yoke instead of a steering wheel. Dumbasses spending money on the dumbest products

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          What a silly thing to complain about. TWO touches to get total mileage. Boo-fucking-hoo.

          Yoke is optional becaaaaaaaauuuuuuuuuuuuse people didn’t want it. They listened to their customers. Wow, what a terrible move.

          Real c/fuck_cars take there.

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            I’m sorry, there’s no positive here on the yoke thing. Literally anybody who isn’t a 14 year old who has never driven a car before should understand a yoke is a shitty, stupid thing to replace a wheel with. That mistake didn’t require putting the shit on the market and then going “oh wow I guess this much worse thing isn’t better after all, huh”. Like, seriously, the dumbest motherfuckers must have been involved in that decision from start to finish.

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              I guess we’ll just ignore the tons of positive feedback regarding the yoke out there. Oh well.

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                Then why did they discontinue it if it wasn’t a stupid idea? Oh well.

                I just want to go into the thing itself a little bit here… What vehicles do we see “yoke” style steering wheels on? Racing cars and karts. Why do we see yokes on those vehicles specifically? Extremely fast steering racks that will go lock-to-lock in a half or quarter turn, coupled with cockpits that either do not allow enough arm movement due to restraints or space to have more wheel movement. Are Teslas cramped inside with arm restraints because they’re open-top racecars? Do they have racing racks that go lock to lock in a quarter turn? Are Teslas driven like a racecar, where both hands will always be on the wheel unless you’re banging through gears? No.

                It’s a child’s view of the world that spawned the idea of putting yokes in Teslas, because the child (Musk) saw racecars and was too ignorant to understand why they had yokes. Techbros and their consequences, etc.

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        That is kind of the funny thing about autos. Like most manufacturers are terrible in many ways. Environment, political, the way they treat people or how shitty their quality control is. Planned obsolescence. There is still a fake “supply demand” issue that they have literally concocted to jack prices through the roof. Literally price gouging asking 15k over MRSP because they pretend they have a supply issue lol.

        All the US majors are in on this scam and it’s sad we don’t have a government worth a fuck to fight it…

        Elon is just mouthy about it lol. I couldn’t even tell you who the CEO of GMC is. They are awful as well tho.

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          The problem unique to car companies is that the Repubs are beholden to the car companies and the only unions big enough and worth a shit in the US is the UAW, and Democrats are beholden to anything they need.

          So you literally can’t do anything to regulate the industry without pissing off one or the other. The car companies will use any legislation raised against them to lay off union jobs.

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        Yeah; it’s very strange. The new online norm seems to be “don’t buy anything from a company if the primary person is a jerk.”

        Meanwhile everyone online is buying stuff from jerks. They are just less vocal about it.

        I REALLY don’t care to research every company I buy something from. Even if I know the primary person is a jerk, I still don’t care unless there is a near equal alternative.

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          Yes, nearly every product is made by assholes, rapists, abusers, and so on. The difference is that teslas are shit cars with a child in charge of design

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            The point here is that the main guy is like the biggest asshole, but the product itself is also ass while pretending not to be, likely fucking up the future “innovation” to be more fucking trash like this

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    I bought it before the twitter stuff

    but you bought it well after everyone knew they were shit quality explosive deathtraps and that he was a paedophile

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      Also a sexpest who wants what Epstein wanted, to spread his super smart and special seed. He already got god knows how many women pregnant and forced them sign NDAs

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          If he was anyone else, I’d give him the benefit of the doubt. But when you’re a fucking billionaire businessman, you’re telling me you don’t vet the people you meet? It’s why I don’t trust the narrative that Trump didn’t know Epstein personally. These people have ex special forces as security guards and you can’t do a quick search on who this weird rich person is. My ass.

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            Epstein and Ghislaine were/are intelligence assets. If they got something on Musk, it’d either be out by now or they’re dictating all this shit.

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    Electric cars are still cars, and therefore do fuck-all to fix the real problem of excessive use of land for parking lots, low-density zoning, and lack of walkability.

    The only way to have communities that are healthy and sustainable (ecologically, financially, or otherwise) is to fix the zoning code so that folks don’t need to drive in the first place.

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        Oh man when almost everything was remote my commute was so nice. 12 miles in 15 - 17 minutes instead of almost double that everyday.

        Unfortunately I operate a forklift so I have to be there in person but damn was it super nice.

        Currently I’m trying to encourage and raise support for more bike infrastructure locally so it’s an actually viable option intead of it’s currently not so viable state.

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        Convert all the empty offices to apartments. Solves housing supply problems, makes a lot of dense units instead of sprawl, puts them right next to any of the offices that have reopened, and would make the owners of the office buildings happy so they’d hopefully get out of the way of WFH (if they’re doing any lobbying or propaganda or whatnot).

        I know it’s too expensive to be worth it, but it’s a perfect thing for governments to give grants for since it has so many benefits.

        It’s happening a bit in Canada.

        Projects are undervway in Calgary and Halifax; others are being planned or debated in Toronto, London, Ont., and Yellowknife.

        From here

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          one issue is that offices tend to have 1 bathroom per floor, and the internal plumbing to match, and apartments need roughly a bathroom every 4 rooms. That really matters when you have 15 floors and you’re adding inlet and outlets filled with water, it drastically affects the weight and design of the building.

          it might be easier, cheaper and safer to demolish and rebuild rather than convert.

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        Maximums aren’t necessarily the problem, since developers are incentivized by market forces not to build more parking than necessary.

        The problem is parking minimums, which are based on numbers pulled out of somebody’s ass 80 years ago and (to the extent they correlated with anything at all) tend to be closer to the maximum that could ever conceivably be needed (think “Black Friday at a shopping center”) more than anything else!

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            We are the lobbyists. For example, my city is currently doing this, so it’s up to people like me to show up at the meetings and demand changes like that. You can do the same in your city or county by talking to your local political rep, even when they aren’t doing a wholesale rewrite like they are here.

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    This is the equivalent of voting Republican, then complaining how everything is getting worse.

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      Eh, if you vote Republican, complain about things getting worse, then vote Democrat, that’s changing your mind. If I saw someone with that sticker, I’d assume they regret the decision and won’t be getting another one. Being able to change your opinion with new information really shouldn’t be discouraged.

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        That’s a good point.

        Clarification: This is like voting for the incumbent Republican on your ballot, complaining how things are getting worse… then voting for the ‘R’ again.

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    what a patetic testament , so they brougt their fucking car (Most Pricy Class of Consumer Item ) based on them liking the melon-musk hype lib train (oviously not actually a Train thats way to efficent and proven) , joyfully driving on the Smuglane ,… now after the “X” melon-musk stuff , and Elon having puplic shifted into the Chud lane , they now drive their Tesla on the Crinch highway in such paranoid hyperawareness that they put a fucking Bumperstckr on their car to Preactivly apolegize … Never be that Pathetic …

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    All this does is reveal who’s obnoxious, gullible, and stupid. How would anyone in their right mind think that pre-twitter Elon didn’t deserve to turn into a vegetable by the Zuck

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    No one cares about the rich assholes who own other car companies, so why Tesla? For example Toyota were some of the biggest campaign donors to Trump.

    Also what does this have to do with Fuck Cars? This is about the minutiae of car culture… We should be talking about trains and bicycles here.

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    I don’t hurl insults at Tesla owners. If they’re dumb enough to stick to owning a car more likely to explode than a Pinto while not even having the panels line up correctly on a $40k “luxury” car, then there’s no pox I could wish on them worse than what they’re already signed up for. dumpster-fire

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    Extra frustrating because even though Musk is associated wholesale with Tesla, he is not actually a founder.

    Yet another example of the rich running shit into the ground with poor decisions.

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      As much as I think musk is an asshole he did put his money where his mouth is in Tesla which notably almost went bankrupt twice. The reality is that Elon distaste matters orders of magnitude less to buyers than value. I mean people hate Walmart and yet they make a ton of money. Other manufacturers cannot make profitable cars at the price point Tesla is offering. Tesla is going to end up the largest car manufacturer in the world. On Twitter yeah he is running it into the ground arguably on purpose but on Tesla and space x he is doing pretty good. I don’t understand what people taking this angle think the founder would have done better. The founder would have just gone bankrupt with Tesla or sold to someone else.

      I would also add that people don’t deal with Elon when buying a Tesla, but they do have to deal with shitty dealers when buying another brand.

      Most people are just going to buy the car that is the best value with the least effort.

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        people don’t deal with Elon when buying a Tesla, but they do have to deal with shitty dealers when buying another brand.

        I’m not gonna defend the state of the dealership system, but from what I hear, getting Teslas fixed is awful in unique ways.

        Tesla is going to end up the largest car manufacturer in the world.

        They’re the largest by stock price, but in EVs/year they were surpassed by a chinese company a couple years ago, and both traditional and new companies are closing the gap Tesla got from all the early capital that was dumped into them. They never came close if you include non-electric cars.

        Other manufacturers cannot make profitable cars at the price point Tesla is offering.

        There’s tons of electric cars at the price point Tesla offers, with a fraction of the issues. One thing I did notice is other companies limit what they’re willing to import into the US to avoid competing with more expensive models (eg, no company imports cheap electric convertibles or station wagon because they’d compete with higher-end electric cars and SUVs/pickups respectively), but I’m not aware of any market segment that doesn’t have a competitive non-tesla equivalent.

        Awhile ago, someone counted the number of local news stories of people getting immolated by their Teslas. It was more per car sold than the Ford Pinto.

        Between:

        spoiler

        Locking the person in when power fails

        Wompy Wheels

        Steering wheel come off while you are driving

        Tesla’s tendency to drive into the back of stopped emergency vehicles or stop on highways due to changing light conditions

        The trunk

        $500 door handles with 10 dollars worth of electronics that fail due to moisture and ice (this one was improved. They’re still $500 though)

        The car lying about its range

        Shoddy build quality

        A dozen other issues I hear from Tesla owners

        The only way I can understand Tesla not being as big of a joke as the Ford Pinto is some combination of outlets that would amplify these stories to become national news also tend to own stock in the largest car company, and Tesla having a team that’s 10x better than Ford’s at shutting down negative publicity.

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        I mean people hate Walmart and yet they make a ton of money.

        The difference to Walmart is that there are alternatives, especially these days, to Tesla. Walmart on the other hand is known to push out smaller retailers in the town they settle into. The option for people can be really slim regardless if you like them or not.

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          Not to mention you have to consider demographics. Walmart is a value brand. When it edges out the local businesses, they get de-facto monopoly. There’s no where else to go if you can’t shop the higher retailers. Tesla had first-mover advantage with the flashy claims and making an EV not look like a Dustbuster. They ran out the goodwill and runway and they will get eaten alive by the seasoned manufacturers. They will have their segment of the market but you’ll more likely see the same brands convert people from petrol to EV or H2 if white hydrogen is actually a thing.

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    It’s a thin shield of irony because pretty much every Tesla owner I know was already a complete douchebag before the Twitter thing. maybe-later-honey maybe-later-kiddo farquaad-point