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Is there a way to short-sell everythong that Musk touches?
At this point FOREX?
This is not Tesla’s first defect or recall. But I’m curious if the current mindset shift and awareness of Musk’s personality might result in it being a larger penalty to their market confidence than before. Other times one might say “Oh, they’re smart people, just hitting a road bump” whereas now they might pull to the feeling the whole company is drowned with misogynistic idiocy.
Most previous "recalls" were software updates. This is a mechanical connection of a steel strip running along the windshield. It's a sheet of stainless that can become a sail on the highway and rip itself off of the truck. I personally think a 4'x3" panel of 1/8th inch stainless steel flying at my car while I'm driving 65mph to be a pretty big deal.
So, this is not a speedbump. Furthermore, this highlights all the bullshit cost cutting measures that were placed on the project and most of all shows that Musk actively makes any tech he touches worse.
Edit: I thought this was a recall for the rear quarter panels that have been separating as well.
Knowing Tesla, they'll just screw 2 wood screws into each panel and call it a day.
The thing that falls off is glued on. The fix is to glue it with a different adhesive.
But why send it back to the factory to do that when wood screws can be done at the dealership?
How long before this adminstration is visited by DGE?
And they still issued a recall, wow.
Bureaucrats are spiteful folks. If you inconvenience them in any way they will ruin your whole week
I worked tech at a university a while back and this statement is for real. I got in tight with HR and the internal audit people so any time there was bureaucratic dick waving I had to get through with other departments I could call in favors. Those people were feral
Probably already on their way.
By the end of the week is my guess
But it's Friday.
Oh.
crazy how such a highly regarded company known for innovation ~~and quality~~ became such a laughingstock joke to everyone except maga cultists in such a short amount of time
edit: lol guess not
highly regarded
Heh
I thought that Teslas have always had QA problems? It's definitely much, much worse in the last couple of years, the their cars were never highly regarded for being super reliable. Hell, I remember multiple stories of people's Teslas dying because they drove in the rain even ~5 years ago.
"quality"? Every Tesla I've stepped in felt cheap. The interiors in particular feel like Smart cheap at Mercedes prices. Maybe car quality in the US is that abysmal, but for reasonable standards Tesla's cars were always shoddily built.
Material quality on the inside of a tesla is typical American, it's about on par with low-mid range European cars, but so is a cadillac.
The material quality isn't much worse than any other American car.
It's fun to sit in an American made ford, and in a European made one right after, the difference is staggering.
and quality
citation needed
People stupid enough to buy a cybertruck are a hazard to the general public lol
What a danger to everyone on the road