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Because the product is better than anything else on the market, and the lies are fairly benign and easily excused as brash optimism.
by SheinhardtWigCo 6y ago
Because the product is better than anything else on the market, and the lies are fairly benign and easily excused as brash optimism.
- ajross 6y agoPretty much exactly this. I want an autonomous car. I want an electric car. I want an electric car with an extensive charger network. I want fancy doodads in the cockpit. Teslas tick off all the boxes here, and... really no one else is close. If it was the choice between Musk's offering and a car from a bland manufacturer without an asshole at the helm that still did everything the Tesla did? Sure, I'd drive the Mercedes or Cadillac or whatever. But there just is no such car. What I want is a Tesla, period.
- skissane 6y ago> If it was the choice between Musk's offering and a car from a bland manufacturer without an asshole at the helm that still did everything the Tesla did? I think most people know what Elon Musk is like. He promises a lot. He delivers a lot too. But his promises are always optimistic and running ahead of delivery. That's especially true on timelines, but true on other matters like functions or capabilities as well. I think most people take that into account when processing his statements, and mentally subtract some of the over-optimism from them.
- dehrmann 6y agoThey have the best electric drivetrain and are pretty bad for everything else.
- tshaddox 6y agoI suppose another way to phrase that is that for anyone who considers the lies to be fairly benign and easily excuses them as brash optimism, there probably isn’t a better product on the market for them.
- xirbeosbwo1234 6y agoThe option costs $10,000. It does not work as claimed and there is no reason to believe it ever will. People have died due to the system malfunctioning. Others have died due to falling for the "brash optimism" and taking their hands off the wheel. Experts outside of Tesla have been crying foul from the day the feature was announced. It is not benign and it is not excusable.
- ketamine__ 6y agoA Tesla is better than a BMW? In what ways? Certainly can't be the interior.
- SheinhardtWigCo 6y agoPowertrain, drivetrain, efficiency, ADAS, software UX. You do have a good point about the interior though. BMW wins at service too.