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Musk aside, I think I first rode in my friend’s one in 2015 or so, and he was pretty excited, as was I. An electric car! That insane acceleration! But even then
by petesergeant 2y ago
Musk aside, I think I first rode in my friend’s one in 2015 or so, and he was pretty excited, as was I. An electric car! That insane acceleration! But even then he was pointing out the comparatively shitty build quality, and the premium aspect of the brand seems gone with the lower-end models being everywhere. Also how did they fuck up the self-driving stuff so badly?
Feels like they squandered a ten year headstart somehow, and I don’t understand how the current valuation holds. My feeling is they needed a Tim Cook to show up about ten years, and instead got Musk still stalking factory floors. If I needed a car, I’d choose electric, but I’d choose one from a car company these days: all the advantages of a Tesla seems to have dried up … and that’s before the associations with That Man.
- blisterpeanuts 2y agoI'm curious what's wrong with the self-driving, assuming you're referring to FSD and not Autopilot. Is there a different make of EV that has better self-driving capabilities? Genuinely would like to know.
- petesergeant 2y agoOh, that wasn’t comparative, just a note that Elon was promising fully self-driving cars for years, as I understood it, and hasn’t really delivered. I haven’t driven a car for years, but my understanding is that it’s very much still fancy driver assist: I’d have to be watching the whole time to check it isn’t about to kill me. Which is very impressive, sure, but isn’t what was promised. My faith in Musk has dropped off in three phases, because I used to think he was awesome: “pedo guy” made me think he was an asshole, self-driving cars that don’t coming “next month” for years made me think I couldn’t trust what he says, and now the MAGA stuff makes me question his human decency.