You're Supposed To Be Glad Your Tesla Is A Brittle Heap Of Junk
You're Supposed To Be Glad Your Tesla Is A Brittle Heap Of Junk
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You're Supposed To Be Glad Your Tesla Is A Brittle Heap Of Junk | Defector
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Probably the best line I have read in any article this month:
I drove back and forth to a bookstore job in an ancient Oldsmobile Cutlass Calais so apocalyptically derelict that when I got pulled over for a busted taillight, the lady cop fixed me with sad eyes and asked "Is everything OK with you?"
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This article is peppered with em.
The reason those companies, and not Tesla, know how to build cars that (in general) can drive from here to there without dropping a wheel or bursting into flames is not that they are staffed by a bunch of centenarian Lore Wizards who learned the secrets of auto manufacture back in nineteen-aught-dickity and now hide this sacred knowledge in a walled mountaintop abbey.
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Brutal op-ed
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Brutal indeed.
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The bloom was off the rose pretty early with people that know about cars. I remember seeing a video of an engineering team disassembling one a few years after they launched and finding all sorts of crazy assembly problems that you’d think would have been worked out by then. I’m talking about bad welds, some not in the correct place, and random bolts rattling around in door panels, that kind of stuff. I give them credit for capturing the collective imagination on what an electric car could be and championing them as cool. But they still have a lot of work to do to catch up in the quality and reliability realm compared to established car companies. The fact that they have significantly less moving parts yet still haven’t been shown to be more reliable than a lot of ICE vehicles says something.
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*fewer moving parts
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IDK, even since Fight Club we know that cars have defects that kill people and the car companies send Edward Norton to check if it's cheaper to pay to the victims or go to court. This is nothing new. I wouldn't get to worked up about it until I've seen some statistics saying that for example Tesla drivers get into more accidents than other drivers or something. O, wait...
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So it's OK because other companies have been shitty, besides Tyler Durden warned us?
But I give you credit, this is the first time I've seen Fight Club unironically used as a source outside the Incel community.
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No, it's not OK but we have seen better reporting on how shitty Tesla is than this article. I don't think it really proves anything.
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This isn't true because of what was said by a character in a movie. Planned obsolescence is a thing the big 3 pioneered.
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Fuck me, that’s good blogging!
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They just felt like writing whatever they wanted for the headline huh?
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Did you even read this? The car's suspension fell off going over a speed bump because the wiring was corroded when it went through a car wash and charged a man 4400 dollars for it. If that isn't a cause for outrage then I don't know what is.
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Yes, I read this. Yes, that's bad, but it's one instance, ONE. Are you conveniently forgetting the hundreds of insane recalls that have happened from other car manufacturers in the past, many with equal or worse safety hazards? Yes, Tesla has issues, like many car manufacturers, but the unhinged vitriol directed at Tesla is just bizarre. I don’t know, maybe people have this latent guilt for driving ICEs, and attacking EV companies somehow alleviates this guilt? Perhaps it's envy (although the Model 3 is hardly an expensive car now). The fact that so many people did actually read the article and then went on to apply zero critical analysis of it is typical, though I suspect most people, once again, saw a headline 'Tesla bad' and upvoted."
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I've had a Tesla 3 years. It's not brittle junk. It's the best car I've ever had and hopefully the last car I ever have to buy.
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Second this. Bought a Model 3 almost 3 years ago, before Musk went full unhinged.
Yeah it's not perfect, but it's a great car, especially for the money. Any issues I had, have been solved by the warranty service.
I probably wouldn't buy one now, but back in early 2021 it was the best thing on the market.
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Probably the wheels falling off their cars. But I don't know I actually read the article
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yeah you read it, but you didn't apply any critical analysis to it, based on your comment...
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unsubstantiated
The incredibly detailed, lengthy, and impeccably sourced Reuters report wasn't enough?
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sry, i mean apart from that.
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What amazes me is this is a luxury brand of car, which should have a higher quality of part. And its built like a badly assembled kit car.
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This is a spam blog. The real report is here:
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-musk-steering-suspension/
Did you read it? It's an opinion piece that references the Reuters report, and several articles, and is an absolute BLAST to read.
How on earth did you reach the conclusion the blog is spam?!
They couldn't even be bothered to replace the default WordPress favicon
Respectfully, Defector is about the furthest thing from a spam blog that you'll find on the internet, my dude/lady.
It was formed a few years back by writers fleeing the sinking ship that was Deadspin.
I'd encourage you to check out some of their other articles and judge for yourself.
It pretty clearly states in the first paragraph that it’s a blog. It’s okay to post blogs. Moreover, the author specifically encourages reading the quoted Reuters report: