ha, ha, people getting screwed over by musk makes me laugh.
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It's far more likely that the odometer in Teslas are just poor quality crap like the rest of the car.
Even more likely there is a bug ticket in thier system that says some part is malfunctioning causing the odometer to count too fast. And that ticket has been depriortized by product management repeatedly as fixing it generates no increase in revenue.
We already know they knowingly lied about battery range, the capabilities of self driving, and a ton of other fraudulent practices. Tesla is doing it intentionally is more likely than poor build quality.
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That cant be a defense?!
Sure, but if you apply hanlon's razor whenever it's applicable, you're right more often.
"never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
Nah fuck hanlons razor. Evil people can be stupid but they are still evil. If the incompetence reaches this point it is also malice.
I'm not saying both aren't possible. And I'm not saying both don't apply here.
But in general, if you make it a practice to remember Hanlon's razor, you will be both correct more often and generally happier. I'm just suggesting, do it for your own sake. Assume the best of intentions in people, because usually people do mean well. And also expect them to let you down by making genuinely stupid choices, because then you won't be surprised when they do.
I assume the best intentions of people that haven't repeatedly proven that they do not have the best of intentions. Telsa has repeatedly shown that they are willing to break the law to accomplish something they want and this isn't a huge step farther all things considered.
Never attribute to malice or stupidity that which can be explained by moderately rational individuals following incentives in a complex system.
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Odometers are one of the oldest consumer protection tools. If it's off, it's very illegal.
Yup, odometers were regulated specifically to protect consumers from widespread odometer fraud. Shit like companies requiring oil changes every 5k miles, and the odometer shows 5000 when it’s actually only 4000, so consumers pay for more service than they need. Or cases like this one, where a company is required to provide a warranty until the 50k odometer reading, and then fudges the odometer so it voids the warranty sooner than it should.
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Sure, but then you'd also expect to hear about Teslas with odometers that massively underreport the distance, too. Or that fail altogether. And while no one would be likely to report the former, the latter might be a bigger deal.
Under-reporting mileage is an issue because you won't get the recommended oil checks at the right times, which will shorten your engine life. And it would be generally concerning to the owner, right? We really do assume the odometer is mostly accurate when we're going on trips.
So I think people would be reporting it if it were happening, but they aren't, so it's probably not. Of course this is speculation.
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The speedometer is also predictive.
You know this is fake cause it's not on garbage touchscreen
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"Tesla commits fraud to void warranties."
There FTFY.
For this six-month period, Hinton says his Model Y odometer gained 13,228 miles (21,288 km). By comparison, averages of his three previous vehicles showed that with the same commute, he was only driving 6,086 miles (9,794 km) per 6 months.
That's 2x. Seems too obvious to be happening on all teslas
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You mean the guy that thinks we live in a simulation and he’s the player and we are all NPCs is cheating to give himself an advantage? I’m shocked.
Hah, I'm not convinced that interpretation is wrong. It's weird how influential he's been on the world, right?
I mean if this is that sort of simulation, he'd probably be a player right? I know that as I get to the end of games, I get all the currency I'll ever need, I have all the best items, and the whole game becomes easy, that's about when I start becoming an asshole, testing the boundaries. Like "can I just kill this character? I'm gonna shoot them, just to see what happens. lol, the guards didn't like that much, look at em running around... I'll shoot them too".
I think that's where Elon is right now, just being an enormous asshole just to see what happens. That's some gamer ass behavior right there!
Because he was born rich and failed up his entire life?
That's true, but there are a lot of those people in the world, tens of thousands. Where are all of them in the news? He seems different in some way, right? Do you even know the name of the CEO of Hasbro or Ford or CocaCola? I bet they're rich, I bet they grew up rich...
They’re smart enough to stay out of the spotlight and Elon isn’t.
Though Jim Farley, CEO of Ford, has a podcast. So perhaps not the best example.
So you think the main difference between Elon and other rich people is that other rich people keep a low profile?
So does that mean you think that other ultra wealthy people are just as influential (and damaging to the world) as Elon? Because I don't doubt that the ultra wealthy are problematic in general, but I think Elon is worse, like in a big way. And he's been changing a lot in the world for the last 20 years, like a lot more than literally anyone I can think of.
That's sooo many individual felonies.
Yet another reason for Elon to wreck all the agencies investigating him.
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Add this to the pile of the rest of the illegal things billionaire Musk does simply because he can
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Why is proprietary in devices we purchase bad? This right here. We are connected to the internet 24/7. Companies hiding what they control and what they collect, which is bad.
Really needs to back this up with some corroborating evidence like Google maps location timeline or something. I don’t trust Tesla, but I also know when I switched to EV I started making excuses to drive everywhere. Practically free miles and great acceleration made driving a joy again. Also my wife and I would often swap vehicles if she had some errand across town to save on gas. Combined that out way more miles in my EV than I had been putting on the previous gas car.
If all this guy did is commute, then he likely has a case, but I really question that.
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Has anyone compared it to a GPS?
Just fit your own dashcam. Some models have GPS logging so you can track where it is every second of driving.
Another way would be to log OBDII metrics, and compare the vehicle speed, odometer and time. If you don't get s=d/t then something is up.
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Should be super easy to prove too... Take an assortment of Teslas to a 1 mile stretch of road, drive it up and down 20 times, measure the mileage before and after.
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Like they can't even be competent enough to hire a hitman to kill their whistleblowers. Boeing are just laughing at them.
Feels like they should be able to view the software and hardware controlling the odometer, and if it's doing anything suspicious.
I wonder if they'll actually do anything if they find Tesla is doing fraud. Feel like everyone who OK'd the decision should be barred from working in the industry for life, and made to forfeit everything they gained while doing the fraud.
While I'm making magical wishes, I'd also like Musk and all of his followers to choke to death.
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It cannot possibly be legal to have the odometer show anything except actual miles traveled.
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