Comment on Tesla recalls all 3,878 Cybertrucks over faulty accelerator pedal - The Verge

• chakan2@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  • it used to be that in every case when your car had an issue you needed to either take it in yourself or have the technical knowhow to fix it yourself.

  That knowledge is mostly trivial. 7/10 repairs a regular Joe could do. Or worse comes to worse you can take it to a mechanic of your choosing.

  I’ll take that level of service.

  With the Tesla model, you very like end up with a 100k brick that no one can work on except very expensive very specialized very limited service centers.

  A Tesla battery is expensive…now look at install costs. And if you’re not using an authorized installer, you’re locked out of the supercharger network.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m amazed how many people here drive Teslas. I think there’s only one Tesla dealership in the entire state. It would take a good 2 hours to get there from here. I guess they’re okay with having to pay for a tow all that way if something seriously goes wrong since there’s no local mechanic who will be able to fix it.

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    • chakan2@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They are dirt cheap around me, which is why I see so many of them. I saw a 2016 Model S with the Ludacris update go for 13k. I kind of wanted it just to drive one, then I looked up the repair prices.

      Sure… I’d get a maybe 200 mile range out of it in the summer…but once winter hit I was looking at like 25k-50k to replace the battery and the motors.

      I can swap the motor and transmission in my car for less than 10k and have a mostly new car.

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  • abhibeckert@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That knowledge is mostly trivial. 7/10 repairs a regular Joe could do. Or worse comes to worse you can take it to a mechanic of your choosing.

    Yeah no - that’s not what my mechanic tells me. It’s more like “you should buy a new car and sell this one”.

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    • chakan2@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “When it’s a software problem…”

      Correct…now we are back to talking about vendor lock in and very specialized techs to install the updates.

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  • kinkles@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Or worse comes to worse you can take it to a mechanic of your choosing.

    That’s also what I meant when I said “taking it in.” In either case you’re taking your car somewhere to get it repaired for X hours instead of applying an update at your home.

    A Tesla battery is expensive…now look at install costs. And if you’re not using an authorized installer, you’re locked out of the supercharger network.

    We aren’t talking about batteries.

    I just think there’s more nuance to the situation and saying that cars should be as inconvenient as possible to fix isn’t a good solution to lazy auto software that requires future patching. Rigorous safety testing and regulation around car software sounds like a better plan to me- automakers will be held to really high standards and the consumers will still benefit from simple OTA patches to fix their vehicles.

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    • chakan2@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I guess my position is if a car needs an OTA update, it’s a critical failure by the manufacturer. They should be 99.999%.

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