• SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today
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    19 hours ago

    Something to consider…

    Elon may be going down a conservative rabbit hole these days, but this is the sort of thing Tesla would never ever ever do. And things like using the telematic system to sell your location and speed to insurance companies. Never happened on a Tesla. You may not like the guy, but the cars are fucking solid.

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      12 hours ago

      the cars are fucking solid.

      Try driving through a car wash without activating “car wash mode”. 😂

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        6 hours ago

        I’ve done it. I think it might have opened the charge port or something. What do you think happens?

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        6 hours ago

        That practice was halted and now the vehicle video is under MUCH stricter control with an option to not share any of it at all.
        Given the choice, I’d rather have some Tesla employee joking about what I park next to than Tesla Inc selling my driving data to insurance companies like most other automakers do…

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        6 hours ago

        That was from years ago.

        Tesla used to sell cars rated by pack capacity. For example the ‘P85D’ was the performance model, 85 kWh pack, dual motor.
        There was also a 40 kWh (cheaper) and 60 kWh version.
        After a while they stopped building 40 kWh packs and just software-locked the 60 kWh pack to only have 40 kWh of usable capacity. I think for a while they offered an upgrade where you could pay to unlock the extra capacity.

        I don’t think they’ve done that in some time. I know when I bought my car (model y long range) they didn’t even advertise the pack capacity nor was any upgrade offered. The only paywall thing I’ve seen with Tesla is FSD and they’re pretty transparent about that. I don’t think they’re awful for paywalling it, because if they build the car without the FSD hardware it won’t have other safety systems like lane departure notification.

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      17 hours ago

      Oh, he’s just going down a rabbit hole! He’s going on a cute little adventure where he does a fucking Nazi salute in front of the whole country, then proceeds to recklessly dismantle huge parts of the US government, but it’s all just part of his magical little journey! Teehee!