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I don't think I'd take one even if it was free. The logistics of charging are challenging but not insurmountable, I manage to charge my Prius just fine. My prim
by troutwine 4y ago
I don't think I'd take one even if it was free. The logistics of charging are challenging but not insurmountable, I manage to charge my Prius just fine. My primary concern is the ever-changing interface inside the vehicle. I'm aware other brands have hopped on the glass cockpit trend but Tesla's over-the-air updates make the problem of developing some kind of consistent muscle memory much, much worse, let alone how much of the vehicle's functions run through that panel. Related, the technical leadership of the company is... erratic. I quite like human-in-the-loop automation when safety outcomes are improved -- think radar based cruise control -- but Tesla vehicles's automation is not, well, not safety focused but 'feature' focused. They chose a flawed sight method for the vehicles and then way over-promised what was possible with that flawed method. Why would I trust they could get the fundamentals right too?
There's a strain of naive utopianism that runs through Silicon Valley culture, the sense that if we could just rub enough computer on a thing it will become better necessarily, decades of industrial practice and safety research be damned. Teslas are the ultimate consequence of that mindset.