Tesla is a surveillance company. Their product isn't a car in the traditional sense, it's a worldwide video feed of public roads, and complete surveillance of t

Tesla is a surveillance company. Their product isn't a car in the traditional sense, it's a worldwide video feed of public roads, and complete surveillance of the people with the highest disposable income along with a variety of ways of coercing them into shelling out for upgrades every time they come up with a new shiny. So don't compare them with toyota, compare them with apple and it makes a lot more sense. All the top tech companies work the same way. Vendor and ecosystem lockin, forced depreciation of old products that aren't currently extracting profit, and selling surveillance.