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Brand new Tesla roof flies off
- LandR 6y agoGuy that posted that on Twitter got some shit from Tesla fan boys. Accusing it of being fake etc.
- TheAdamist 6y agoIts a cult. They have to defend the slightest perceived threat to the brand. Which has some good engineering, but many missteps in manufacturing. When some other established manufacturer puts some real engineering effort into a vehicle, teslas many flaws will become more apparent. When the home improvement store wood being used in manufacturing came up a few weeks ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24424567 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24424567 people seemed to ignore that it's necessary and normal to spend 10s of hours disassembling your car to fix panel alignment issues upon delivery.
- zalkota 6y agoGood thing they aren’t a car company! They’re an energy company.
- ghgdynb1 6y agoI wonder if this isn’t the differentiation though. No other company is willing to sink anywhere near as much into paying engineering salaries as Tesla. I remember choosing majors and realizing that as a computer science major I could do political science, but it would be a lot harder to go in the other direction. Maybe there’s something similar going on here: it’s a lot easier for a company that’s great at engineering to learn manufacturing than for a company that’s great at manufacturing to learn engineering.
- dublin 6y agoAnother example of Tesla qwality. They're catching up to Government Motors, all right. (FWIW, I admire Tesla's innovation, but they don't make very good cars.)
- tibbydudeza 6y agoI used to drive a Chevy (Sonic) and the electronic ignition module packed up twice (both times replaced under warranty) I never had the roof or wheels come off.
- toomuchtodo 6y agoLet me share GM’s ignition switch fiasco with you that killed 124 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_ignition_switch_recalls https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_ignition_switch... “On February 6, 2014, General Motors (GM) recalled about 800,000 of its small cars due to faulty ignition switches, which could shut off the engine while the vehicle was in motion and thereby prevent the airbags from inflating. The company continued to recall more of its cars over the next several months, resulting in nearly 30 million cars recalled worldwide and paid compensation for 124 deaths. The fault had been known to GM for at least a decade prior to the recall being declared. As part of a Deferred Prosecution Agreement, GM agreed to forfeit $900 million to the United States.”
- sunstone 6y agoConsumer's Reports says otherwise.