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Anybody who bought a Tesla in the last few years is a goddamn tool. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by BettyWhiteInHD@lemmy.world to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world

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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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[–] jflorez@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I bought a Hyundai Kona Electric at the start of the year and couldn’t be happier

[–] time_lord@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

And they’re not particularly well built; how many of these do you think will be on the road 20 years from now?

These two are not mutually exclusive. They're not well built, but they also have rediculously low failure rates. So they may have a lot more rattles, but I'd be surprised if most of the Teslas on the road today, don't last until they're at least 12, which is the average age of a car in America IIRC.

[–] Invelyzi@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Eh this is the same fad with probably the same people who all bought/would have bought a Mustang in the 90s

[–] BilboBargains@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Tesla are objectively inferior to established OEM in many ways. The build quality is awful, refinement is poor. The main advantage Tesla have is their system architecture. Since they were an electric car company from the outset, they don't have the problem of legacy systems and tooling to constrain their design solutions. This manifests as best in class efficiency, ability to remotely reprogram the control systems and surveil vehicle data. On the other hand, it takes a very long time indeed to solve the many problems of making a car reliable and high quality. They just haven't been around long enough to reach the level of OEM that have been doing this for a century. Tesla is mostly an exercise in slick marketing and it seems to be working, for now.

[–] Yewb@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Everyone i know who purchased these are disappointed after the honeymoon wears off and like the doors randomly open or fall off.

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