Tesla is notorious for its very poor manufacturing quality, allegedly generating far more recalls, complaints and defect issues than any other vehicle maker in history… getting notably worse with each new model.
Related, Elon Musk’s new staff uniforms at X are thrown together from old sheets and typically not well made.
The auctions on Bring a Trailer show an unmistakable trend down, and fast.
To put this simply, as any good analyst should, Tesla value crashes and sucks down owners with it.
One privileged wealthy individual dealing with one horrible vehicle is typically not an issue, because if they choose to flush money down the drain it may not affect them.
However for the general public, without such largess and waste possibilities, Tesla is a financial and safety disaster leading to bankruptcy.
And for a corporation betting big on Tesla, investing enough in the brand to impact their bottom line, bankruptcy also may follow.
Take Hertz for example, the world leader in car operations management and maintenance. It has floundered seriously lately just because of bringing Tesla into the rental fleet. When the biggest and highest levels of car operation expertise can not make this brand viable, all the related robotaxi promises by Tesla are obviously nothing but dangerous fraud.
Remember, Tesla infamously made new owners sign an NDA. Faith and fiction are emphasized over fact finding to delay accountability.
Tesla owners who bring their new vehicle to the shop several times a month for repairs unrelated to normal wear and tear are really just targeted prey at this point, not actually customers.
Cybertruck owners are ignorantly dragging down themselves and others into serious debt, like advance fee fraud victims. America should be faster at prosecuting Tesla for this fraud to prevent spread of harms; reduce market fallout risks from allowing too many victims.
Tesla refers to its robotic software as FSD, and police in Seattle have just released a statement that the infamously dangerous robot allowed on public roads has murdered an innocent man.
After the crash in a suburban area about 15 miles (24 kilometers) northeast of Seattle, the driver told a trooper that he was using Tesla’s Autopilot system and looked at his cellphone while the Tesla was moving.
“The next thing he knew there was a bang and the vehicle lurched forward as it accelerated and collided with the motorcycle in front of him,” the trooper wrote in a probable-cause document.
Experts have condemned the Tesla system as a fraud.
“Unless you have data showing that the driver never has to supervise the automation, then there’s no basis for claiming they’re going to be acceptably safe,” [Phil Koopman, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University who studies autonomous vehicle safety], said.
This comes right after the WSJ reported that Tesla has intentionally made their robot designs less safe, intentionally deceiving investors and putting the public in harms way… similar to how Twitter had its safety controls turned off and experts removed when it was taken over.
And this is exactly what I said back in 2016 was happening, public algorithmic slaughter by Tesla, as an early warning that too few people took seriously enough.
…speeding off the 202 Parkway in a new white Tesla that went airborne [off an embankment] and crashed into a treeline near the Pickertown Road bridge underpass in Warrington Township earlier this month. [Cited July 8 with] reckless driving, and failure to drive in a single lane, according to charging documents.
This case included empty cans in the crashed car. This suggests the Tesla CEO repeatedly telling his customers that they will be safe when drunk on Autopilot has actually led to very dangerous roads right now.
Failure to drive in a single lane was also highlighted in a recent FSD analysis by a concerned investor, who warned that Tesla is misleading everyone with obvious fraud.
…the highway was curvy and narrow, and had a solid white line separating lanes, signaling a prohibition against lane changes. Still, the Model Y switched lanes twice under that condition.