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Another one of those design flaws not considered by products "Deigned in California" where weather is nearly perfect.

dekhn 3y ago
Why do you believe that California has nearly perfect weather? We just had massive flooding and it didn't lead to a bunch of disabled teslas.
jjackson5324 3y ago
Do you realize that Teslas are driven in other places than just California? I wonder why you don't hear their millions of other owners complaining about the car failing after driving in a puddle...? The obvious answer is that this couple is lying and the tabloid newsletter is just printing their BS.
- 14 3y ago
  Or the other possibility is their car had some defect not affecting every Tesla. Maybe the guy building it forgot a seal on something that lead to the intrusion of water. It is too early and not enough information to come to a conclusion yet.
Waterluvian 3y ago
I’ve grown to love winter for how it saves my region from being a testing ground for the thousand robotics startups that cram hacker-quality ROS-based code into some Apple-wannabe base platform and shove it out the door to deliver or monitor something.
adventured 3y ago
Zero chance that's true. The Model 3 is being sold by the millions globally, to markets with nearly every type of weather. Failure due to driving in the rain, is very obviously not common at all.
nomel 3y ago
There's not enough evidence here to come to that conclusion. Edinburgh floods [1], just as California does. Sometimes people try to drive in deep water that they shouldn't. I've seen it, I've done it, and there's whole YouTube channels dedicated to it, where you'll find Teslas owners who apparently think the lack of an engine makes it possible (and they're somewhat correct!). And, California floods, quite often. I've seen floating cars in SF. I've seen flooded engines a dozen miles from the Tesla factory. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG35xJtJb08 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG35xJtJb08

Why do you believe that California has nearly perfect weather? We just had massive flooding and it didn't lead to a bunch of disabled teslas.

jjackson5324 3y ago

Do you realize that Teslas are driven in other places than just California? I wonder why you don't hear their millions of other owners complaining about the car failing after driving in a puddle...? The obvious answer is that this couple is lying and the tabloid newsletter is just printing their BS.

14 3y ago
Or the other possibility is their car had some defect not affecting every Tesla. Maybe the guy building it forgot a seal on something that lead to the intrusion of water. It is too early and not enough information to come to a conclusion yet.

Waterluvian 3y ago

I’ve grown to love winter for how it saves my region from being a testing ground for the thousand robotics startups that cram hacker-quality ROS-based code into some Apple-wannabe base platform and shove it out the door to deliver or monitor something.

adventured 3y ago

Zero chance that's true. The Model 3 is being sold by the millions globally, to markets with nearly every type of weather. Failure due to driving in the rain, is very obviously not common at all.

nomel 3y ago

There's not enough evidence here to come to that conclusion. Edinburgh floods [1], just as California does. Sometimes people try to drive in deep water that they shouldn't. I've seen it, I've done it, and there's whole YouTube channels dedicated to it, where you'll find Teslas owners who apparently think the lack of an engine makes it possible (and they're somewhat correct!). And, California floods, quite often. I've seen floating cars in SF. I've seen flooded engines a dozen miles from the Tesla factory. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG35xJtJb08 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG35xJtJb08