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 don’t purchase things or make investments based on CEOs. The history of automaker CEOs is quite ugly. I also use Amazon, and Bezos is also a tremendously evil “tool.” Just because a CEO is dumb enough to be loud-stupid in ways that are accessible to the public doesn’t make them worse/better in my eyes.
Tesla as a company has great engineers, they’ve basically built a tremendous drivetrain on an incredible car frame, and they don’t care at all about the interior fit and finish. Emphasizing Elon over the engineers that put those cars together is a disservice to the hard work of the people actually doing the work.
Teslas are some of the safest cars on the road. They’re an engineers car: all the work is in the parts you can’t see. You can hate Elon all you want, but if their safety record continues to be as stellar as it has been, I’ll probably buy a Model Y in the next couple of years. Not because I love or hate Elon–he doesn’t enter into the equation when I’m thinking about the safety of my family–but because the engineers at Tesla have designed a very safe electric car.
If all you look at are the loudest articles, the most repugnant tweets, have at. I’m looking for a car that, per mile, provides safe transportation. When it comes to electric cars (or any car, really), Tesla has consistently been at the top.
Yeahhhhhhhh if everyone bought vehicles based on CEOs/owners of companies, Volkswagen would uh, be rather dead at this point. Or have a very dedicated niche.
And Ford, as well. Henry Ford was not exactly a paragon of virtue.
Sure, but at the same time they aren’t shouting from the rooftops that they’re idiots and making clowns out of themselves at the same level as Elon has been…
So it’s not shitty people you dislike, it’s shitty people that don’t hide it from you. Suboptimal view.
I didn’t say I liked them. What I meant is that they don’t have the media presence and influence that someone like Elon has. At the end of the day, like others said, you wouldn’t be buying anything if you looked at the track record of every CEO. I can still pick the lesser evil.