It's not that Musk ever thought Tesla could design "better" components, it's that Musk knew Tesla could design proprietary components, and in there lies the grift.
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Geek_King@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I read that Tesla being Tesla reinvented a ton of very standard components that other car manufacturers have been using for decades. So there are a lot of weird issues with Teslas that you wouldn’t see in a car from an established car maker. It’s Tesla ego which makes them think that they can design component better than a whole industry over decades and decades could.
When the Model S came out, I thought it was the height of cool, but I wouldn’t consider buying one of their vehicles now. I think the only reason they even kinda did well was that the rest of the car makers were slow to start making EVs that looked decent and were priced reasonably. Now that the big boys are in the game, Tesla has been dropping the price of some of their models to try and stay competitive. But their cars have always had quality assurance issues, and their support isn’t decent at all, since they try to blame customers for things outside of their control.
downpunxx@fedia.io 7 months ago
kbin_space_program@kbin.run 7 months ago
Mostly i agree.
However:
Drive by wire is something that they should have implemented decades ago. It is a ridiculously proven and safe technology.Montagge@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Drive by wire was implemented decades ago!
xthexder@l.sw0.com 7 months ago
I think they’re talking about steer by wire here, not throttle by wire.
Montagge@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Ah gotcha! That would make sense!
nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
The OG teslas had FOMOCO e-throttle pedal assemblies from Ford.
The problem is that Tesla is constantly changing parts during a model run, sometimes for the better (reliability, simplicity) other times for cost cutting and that is why I’d never own one. Because there are a million iterations finding parts to repair them, and I only buy 10+ year old cars (possibly nothing after 2010 at this rate).
Teslas are built like one time use smartphones. Only good for parts recycling after they fail.
billiam0202@lemmy.world 7 months ago
If there’s one constant in “libertarian” philosophy, it’s that they always inevitably end up reinventing the policies/laws/processes/regulations they tried to ignore in the first place.
firadin@lemmy.world 7 months ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton#Chesterton…
Libertarians think they’re smarter than everyone else and never wonder why the fence is there in the first place.
billiam0202@lemmy.world 7 months ago
TIL!
andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 7 months ago
The story of that random city/town is pretty great. Free State Project, I think it was.
gaifux@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I love how little this has to do with a “libertarian” philosophy. It’s cute how you insist on making the dumb choices of some private car company equate to political ideologies lol