You know how people looked at the dumb decisions of #StocktonRush and said don’t get in the #Titan ?
Don’t get into an #ElonMusk #Tesla or #SpaceX
I’ve been saying it for months. Teslas are inherantly unsafe and I won’t ride in one.
Nothing unsafe with driving a Tesla manually, the risk comes from using their “autopilot”. The cars are quite nice and safe tbh, but fucker Musk’s experimental snake oil “features” are not.
That’s usually a reference to fit and finish, but there have been several of them that have caught on fire. But they basically require subscription fees and refuse to use physical controls for important systems.
It’s worse I’ve heard the build quality is inconsistent. Some cars are perfectly assembled, others have dime sized gaps between seams.
I’d also heard that before I got my M3 in 2021, but except for the terrible paint they use that can’t handle even the smallest stone chips, I have no issues with it at all. A lot of people I’ve driven around has also been surprised with the quality/feeling of the car after hearing the same thing.
The article is quite interesting, but I wonder how if the accident rating accounts for times when it’s disabled just moments before impact? From personal experience, I was a second away from disaster yesterday when my M3 decided to breakcheck a truck on the highway because one of the cameras got disabled due to dirt or a ray of sunshine or something. Granted, I don’t have FSD, but just the glorified lane-assist version of autopilot.