I have long observed that moving parts, particularly involving motors, are destined to give me grief as a car ages. The difference is that little motorized interior luxuries aren’t going to prevent people from pulling my unconscious body out of a burning wreck, while these door handles have for dozens of people
Comment on China Is Banning Tesla-Style Retractable Door Handles Over Safety Concerns
Jackusflackus@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
As they should, stupid over complicated and absolutely failure ridden unnecessary design
dantheclamman@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
DaddleDew@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Musk nearly bankrupted Tesla when he insisted that the door handles must be flush after stealing the company from its original founders.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I mean, “stealing” is a strong word. Elon bought them out, and they’re both enjoying a net worth in the hundreds of million.
What’s more disturbing about Elon’s tenure as head of the company is how social media manipulation, insider trading, and blatant SEC violations can pump a company’s valuation into the stratosphere.
Marc Tarpenning and Martin Eberhard both continued to contribute advances in engineering that far exceeded the Tesla project. But they’ll never have the kind of easy credit Elon secured through politics and media manipulation.
DaddleDew@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
“Bought them out” is a weak word too though. He placed loyal people on the board and had them vote to give him control of the company.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
He could place loyalists on the board because he bought a controlling interest in the company.
The latest compensation package has virtually unattainable sales targets. And the compensation is almost entirely in equity that assumes a monumental increase in stock valuation.
If he can manage it, I’d be tempted to say he earned it, except I know he’ll only “hit” the target by lying and market manipulation that will collapse as soon as he hits his mark.
Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
With any luck Elon with be in jail in a few years when Democrats try to prove we shouldn’t abandon this socio-political system entirely.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
That would require a backbone not seen in democrats in generations. I’d bet money on him being a free man and never seeing the inside of a cell.
Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
That will never, ever, ever happen. Dems love an oligarch just as much, if not more, than republicans. China is the only country that prosecutes wealthy criminals.
hopesdead@startrek.website 17 hours ago
It’s already fucked up that he legally gets to call himself a co-founder for simply being on the board.