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[-] mateomaui@reddthat.com 122 points 2 years ago

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

wait, Tesla didn’t exist back then

[-] penguin@sh.itjust.works 31 points 2 years ago

Before he revealed himself to be one

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[-] grue@lemmy.ml 94 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[-] FlowVoid@midwest.social 41 points 2 years ago

Or just reduce the need to drive, for example by encouraging remote work.

[-] Gormadt 27 points 2 years ago

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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[-] li10@feddit.uk 82 points 2 years ago

I remember when Teslas used to be cool.

Now I see them all the time, and they might as well swap the badge for one that says “cunt”, it would be less embarrassing.

[-] Steeve@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 years ago

Buy a Tesla because you're trying to help the environment and it was regarded as the best EV at the time

Tesla starts making their products shittier

Tesla lied about range

Tesla CEO loses his mind, buys a social media company, drives it into the ground

Someone on the internet says you're a cunt because you own a Tesla

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[-] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 66 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[-] Dangeresque@infosec.pub 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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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[-] GarfieldYaoi@hexbear.net 54 points 2 years ago

But ultimately, according to the survey, most Tesla owners plan to buy a Tesla again.

Lol

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago

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

[-] ThePac@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 33 points 2 years ago

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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[-] 0xACAB@hexbear.net 23 points 2 years ago

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?

[-] Flinch@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago

love too have my self driving software turn off seconds before my car slams into a semi truck going 100mph, so I can be blamed posthumously for not having enough personal responsibility

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[-] bdiddy@lemmy.one 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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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[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

reddit's hivemind of "Teslas are shit cars"

Has reddit-logo really changed that much since a year ago? It was a massive endless circlejerk for the Church of E-L-O-N back then, up to and including "ironic" pictures of their lord and savior presented as a saint in antiquity-style paintings.

Are they awesome? IMO, yes.

https://carbuzz.com/news/tesla-admits-model-3-has-a-design-flaw

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[-] stilgar@infosec.pub 52 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] WoofWoof91@hexbear.net 30 points 2 years ago

the american urge to paste your opinions on your automobile

[-] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 29 points 2 years ago

I would prefer they drive a Tesla than a petrol car. But if they swap to another electric car, I'll take it. I hope they advocate for better public transport links locally though.

[-] LaSaucisseMasquee@jlai.lu 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

What would be the purpose of swapping ?

It wouldn’t automagically reuse the resources used to build the Tesla car into another one.

[-] czech@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago

This is a stretch but with bad press the resale value of existing teslas may drop to within reach of more consumers who would otherwise drive an ICE.

[-] bioemerl@kbin.social 16 points 2 years ago

Would generally be better if they just kept driving their old car.

[-] pkulak@beehaw.org 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Clicked through the first link and saw like half a dozen stickers with the only joke conservatives have ever been able to think of; "x identifies as y". Imagine thinking that's such a pinnacle of comedy that you reuse it for everything you can think of for years and years, never tiring of it.

[-] ebenixo@sh.itjust.works 27 points 2 years ago

Makes sense the people buying teslas are obsessed with what others think of them

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[-] YeeHaw@beehaw.org 27 points 2 years ago

Imagine "Twitter stuff" being your breaking point after all the bad shit Musk did. These people are the real problem.

[-] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

He had some credibility with nerds because Tesla transformed the electric car market* and was making contributions to renewable energy storage, SpaceX revived the idea of doing more in space than just launching the occasional satellite or probe, and Starlink was pitched with the idea that it'd bring about globally accessable, high-speed low-latency internet. The result is that, because he is the face of Tesla, SpaceX and Starlink, he received the major of the credit for them. Nerds were willing to overlook the fact that he was an asshole for the contributions that his companies were making to science and technology because either "he's just shitposting" or "sometimes you have to take what you can get *shrug*". It wasn't until he bought Twitter that they realized that he's not just shitposting, he really is just like that, and that maybe he was causing more harm than he was doing good.

Source: My dad and I had a lot of respect for him up until he bought Twitter and started throwing a temper tantrum. My opinion of him was already waning when I saw the fit he threw about not being able to use his submarine and the bigoted shit he said on Twitter, but him buying Twitter broke any illusions that the either of us had about him being even a somewhat decent person. I've also seen others have similar experiences as well.


* seriously, does no one remember how the major car manufacturers were trying to bury electric cars? Does no one remember that one of the big reasons why we have so many electric cars now is because Tesla voluntarily released all their patents to the public in 2014?

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[-] Mindfury@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago

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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[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago

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

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[-] mateomaui@reddthat.com 23 points 2 years ago

I’m sure the resale value plummeting after the driving range bullshit was exposed probably doesn’t factor into the not selling. Right?

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[-] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago

Lmao imagine being this big a loser you feel like apologizing to everyone because you bought a shit car

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[-] betamark@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Tesla is not a company of one person.

Edit: I get wanting to protect yourself from folks who want to take their Elon rage out on random tesla, but isn't it easier to just talk to folks about this?

Thank you for sharing the article, op.

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[-] DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago

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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[-] ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago

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 ...

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 17 points 2 years ago

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

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[-] Sasuke@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

what is about americans and bumper stickers

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[-] Iheardyoubutsowhat@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago
Whatever. I bought a tesla because it's still the best EV when it comes to range and charging network, and during the pandemic Tesla was the only manufacturer who didnt inflate cost due to chip shortages. I dont care for Musk, but most ceo's are douches, hes just the loudest.
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[-] Fuckass@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

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

[-] stackcheese@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

it must be like licking elon's taint everytime you have to charge up

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Oh come on, they had to have known how much of a weenie he was even before the twitter stuff lol.

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