We’ve known for years that the owner is a lying, creepy, out of touch dipshit and that it’s a very flawed car and the company will cut costs to save money on safety items, every time.
Electric vehicles with drive assist are awesome and are the future, but there are alternatives, especially if you have money, which a lot of Tesla customers do. And they’re not particularly well built; how many of these do you think will be on the road 20 years from now? And now we’ve seen how Elaine runs their companies, why the hell would anybody put their trust in their products?
If you’ve bought a Tesla in the last five or so years, you’re a damn goober in my eyes. That’s my hot take, prepared for being called poor and other sodium, tear filled comments from fools whose opinions don’t matter. You are the hardcore, foaming at the mouth Segway fan from the 2000s, have at me lol.
Update: The teary eyed, sweaty fingered responses to this are predictably hilarious. I’ve been called a guy that eats 4 pizzas a week in another old thread because of this, a cunt, a tool, a douche, a couple people spent their energy to tell me they don’t understand me spending my energy posting this, some people are telling me something about Tesla or Elaine living in my head rent free. All genuinely pathetic responses, so GG lol. Cheers.
I’ve received numerous reports on this post now, and I’m doing my best to leave it up. Please refrain from personally insulting people here (i.e. the post title and update). Still leaving it up for now.
The problem is the entire post is intentionally argumentative. Unpopular opinions aren’t calling other people assholes to get some rage bait.
other sodium, tear filled comments from fools whose opinions don’t matter.
You know you can post an unpopular opinion without being a completely unlikable cunt, right?
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That’s probably because OP is posting a popular opinion in an unpopular way.
Twist: OP owns a Tesla.
This is just his way of coping with the self-hate.
More likely OP is in fact, an absolute douche.
I don’t see how that conflicts with what I said.
It’s as if OP posted two unpopular opinions.
I struggled with this for a long time on that other site. I’m trying to do things differently here.
I had a blanket “Cool guys don’t look back at explosions” policy to posting on pretty much every other site. I decided to turn over a new leaf on the Fediverse, and try not to post anything I don’t actually want a reply to. It does tend to gentle you down a bit. Also, I noticed other people were at least giving themselves a chance to form friendships that way, so yeah, new deal.
The thing that really sucks about social media is how many people are just using you as a vent pillow to scream into. It’s amazing that so many people are using so many websites that pretty much amount to somebody else’s emotional punching bag.
Wait, how do you form a friendship on sites like this? Best I’ve had are brief friendly interactions and then I forget their username unless it’s one of the novelty accounts, in which case “interactions” feel more like celebrity appearances or like a performance than anything else.
My dude I do not even know. I have managed to be around some people who aren’t like me and gathered the strong impression that people were using social media like it was social, and not anti-social, which I am fluent in. So now I am on a brand-new policy, in the dark and stumbling around. All I can tell you is that the other people are using this thing to meet each other and exchange phone numbers eventually like actual friends. Which makes fuckin sense. If you reply back to other people like you are texting, it changes the nature of the thing. We must both be at peace with letting the thread drop, tho.
I must remind you that the normy world has been using social media to find other people to have sex with for a while, basically pull up the app, swipe swipe swipe until you find a friend for the night and put the phone away, instead of letting the demon consume the next 4 hours somehow. There’s a whole nother paradigm. It seems more entertaining.
But yeah, I think you just treat threads like chats, be cool, and see what happens eventually.
You just avoid that Reddit thing where you come in with your 1500 word truth dunk, that ain’t it.
Yeah it’s crazy to me that people can find a sexual partner on a site like Reddit (or are you just talking about tinder and apps like that?). Meanwhile I’m here avoiding even sharing my province, though I was open about being in Canada. Probably doesn’t help that my desire to be social itself waxes and wanes.
No, I do mean sites like Reddit. The advanced users are making everything act like a dating site when they need it to, because things like tinder don’t work for everyone, so it’s double crazy that they’re making Reddit work for that.
What I was truly referring to is Discord, and all those little communities in there, lots of people making their connections, not just sex, but international friend networking. Snapchat, group chats, all that, they’re busy doing the same, there. Meanwhile, I live as a ghost, interacting with dozens of people a day online, thousands over the years, with nothing much to show for it.
Even out in the real world I’m the kinda guy who can work some place for two years and leave with no new numbers in my phone. It does keep me out of the drama, but I don’t feel I’m striking a balance, either.
So yeah, I wish I knew.
Ooooh discord makes a lot of sense. It’s just the modern version of chat rooms which is where people were hooking up long before tinder was a thing and “a/s/l?” was one of the most common greetings between people just meeting for the first time.
I can easily tell the difference between a 2013 vs 2023 Toyota Camry.
I literally can’t tell the difference between a 2013 and 2023 Model S.
That’s the real problem.
I’m a bike driver and Teslas wanna hit me left and square and I can’t hear those removed. I get it the gas cars are probably gonna go extinct within 180 years, but telsas suck on build quality and those removed are expensive to do any repairs, where is my RIGHT TO REPAIR!!!
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I think they could have their place, just not under wonton capitalism with no regard for the environment
I could stand for a bit more wonton capitalism. They make tasty soup!
Or did you mean “wanton”?
Lmao no I definitely meant wonton. I could also go for some…
I’m just over here sittin’ in my lil 2006 civic hybrid, eatin’ popcorn and celebrating 200k+ miles without so much as a loose screw.
No half measures. !fuckcars@lemmy.world
Fuck cars is like libertarianism. It sounds great at first until you actually really think about it
Full of people who live in big cities and/or small countries. The US is mostly very spread out and sparsely populated. Getting rid of cars just isn’t feasible.
Getting rid of cars just isn’t feasible.
Getting rid of cars is inevitable. The amount of resources it takes to maintain anywhere close to a 1:1 suburbanite:car ratio is massively unsustainable. Read that word again. Unsustainable. It doesn’t say “makes environmentalists sad”, it says “cannot be sustained”. Cars will go away, and everyone currently clinging to a car dependant lifestyle will have a bad time.
I love my Leaf. Only 129 miles for range and can take longer than 12 hours to charge in my garage but not having bought gas for almost 5 years has been great and it’s a joy to drive an electric car. I compared the Leaf to the Tesla Model 3 at the time and could find no reasons that the Leaf wasn’t a better use of my money. Tesla electric cars seem like more of a status symbol than an environmental or economic decision in today’s EV market.
I would have totally considered a Tesla3 for my partner if not for all the reasons listed here… Price wise they seemed like a good enough deal for a new Model3, but I couldn’t get past the Musk factor, and the quality control issues - I would not trust my life in the hands of that company.
Everyone i know who purchased these are disappointed after the honeymoon wears off and like the doors randomly open or fall off.
I’ve had mine for 5 years. I wanted an EV and at that time (in the US) there really was no option even remotely close with the combination of range, charging convenience and technology.
Elons downfall sometimes makes me slightly embarrassed to be associated to it in any way, but its still a great car, not perfect but great. 5 years and I’ve had to replace a set of tires, wiper blades and fluid, and 2 sets of cabin air filters. That’s it.
Its popular to hate on Elon and its rightly deserved but come the fuck on.
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I own a Model Y, don’t give a fuck what Elon does or says. I own a Ford too and couldn’t tell you who the hell the CEO of Ford is. Their personal opinions have fuck-all to do with the product, in my opinion. I test drove one, loved everything about the car, the charging network is objectively better, and I’m a big fan of self driving so that’s a bonus. I’m a little over a year into ownership and there’s absolutely no complaints I have about the car, it’s been a great experience.
Now the question is, why do you have such strong opinions about what cars other people buy? I’ve had a great experience with my Tesla and don’t know of any better way I could’ve spent my money on a vehicle.
People love to hate Teslas, as seen from this post. My only complaint with mine is that there’s a good chunk of the population that translates their hatred for Teslas into unsafe and aggressive driving. It’s like, “Yes I get that you’re far right and hate EVs / far left and hate Elon, but can I please merge onto the highway? My kids are in the car.”
Counterpoint: Anyone who bought a combustion engine car in the past few years is a tool.
See how that works?
how many of these do you think will be on the road 20 years from now?
While I agree with the basic premise of your argument, this isn’t the knock you think it is. The majority of passenger cars won’t be on the road in 10 years, let alone 20. Between poorly designed cheap econo-cars, people who want the latest new thing, and people who abuse their car (insanely long commutes, deferring maintenance, etc), they just don’t last that long on average. I rarely see a 2013 model or earlier let alone a 2003 or eariler.
The average age of registered cars is 12 years. And it keeps rising.
https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a43903366/average-car-age-12-years/
Me and my wife both have cars over 14 years old with 200k miles and they’re just fine.
I have a Model Y since nearly a year now and it’s overall the best car I have ever owned. Drawbacks? So far no. QA issues? No. Overall quality is actually on par with a similarly priced German car, if you ask me. The rear bumper? Still attached.
At the same time Tesla is the only car company where people make a direct connection between the car and the CEO. Couldn’t care less about Elmo.
At the same time Tesla is the only car company where people make a direct connection between the car and the CEO.
No other CEO sends me unwanted notifications when they tweet.
You haven’t personally NOTICED any QA issues and the rear bumper is still attached after less than a year? Never mind then, must be the best built car ever! 🤦
Not really, Tesla was presented very much like Apple and to a lesser extent Microsoft where the persona of the “genius innovative CEO” was as or sometimes more important than the product.
