I think the really enlightening factor here is the actual data on numbers of complaints per 100k vehicles sold. Look at those numbers for all the top makes and

I think the really enlightening factor here is the actual data on numbers of complaints per 100k vehicles sold. Look at those numbers for all the top makes and models in the U.S. Tesla is always at the worst end of that list, however you sort the numbers. Yet when you transplant those same numbers into China or other countries, the same number of complaints per 100k vehicles puts them at the top of the list -- because everyone else is so much worse. Tesla is a case study in doing all the things because you have to do something, and this is something, and therefore you have to do this. Some of the ideas that Tesla has come up with are great, but the execution has been piss poor. And some of their ideas have been truly horrible, like using all their customers as lab rats so that they can gather more data more quickly and trick more people into also becoming more lab rats. But as bad as Tesla is, I don't see any other way to force the entrenched car companies around the world to make the kind of changes that have to be made for this planet to survive. We have to get off fossil fuels, and if that means that Tesla has to destroy the rest of the industry to do it, then I think maybe that's a case where we need the devil we don't know (as well) to help kill the devil we do know (better).