Anybody who bought a Tesla in the last few years is a goddamn tool.

We’ve known for years that the owner is a lying, creepy, out of touch dipshit and that it’s a very flawed car and the company will cut costs to save money on safety items, every time.

Electric vehicles with drive assist are awesome and are the future, but there are alternatives, especially if you have money, which a lot of Tesla customers do. And they’re not particularly well built; how many of these do you think will be on the road 20 years from now? And now we’ve seen how Elaine runs their companies, why the hell would anybody put their trust in their products?

If you’ve bought a Tesla in the last five or so years, you’re a damn goober in my eyes. That’s my hot take, prepared for being called poor and other sodium, tear filled comments from fools whose opinions don’t matter. You are the hardcore, foaming at the mouth Segway fan from the 2000s, have at me lol.

Update: The teary eyed, sweaty fingered responses to this are predictably hilarious. I’ve been called a guy that eats 4 pizzas a week in another old thread because of this, a cunt, a tool, a douche, a couple people spent their energy to tell me they don’t understand me spending my energy posting this, some people are telling me something about Tesla or Elaine living in my head rent free. All genuinely pathetic responses, so GG lol. Cheers.

iAmTheTot,
iAmTheTot avatar

other sodium, tear filled comments from fools whose opinions don’t matter.

You know you can post an unpopular opinion without being a completely unlikable cunt, right?

pizza_rolls,
pizza_rolls avatar

I mean being unlikeable is unpopular so... it fits lol

Shardikprime,

What’s immortality gotta do with all this

ihavenopeopleskills,
ihavenopeopleskills avatar

I struggled with this for a long time on that other site. I'm trying to do things differently here.

ObviouslyNotBanana,
@ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, Digg wasn’t great

jayrodtheoldbod,

I had a blanket “Cool guys don’t look back at explosions” policy to posting on pretty much every other site. I decided to turn over a new leaf on the Fediverse, and try not to post anything I don’t actually want a reply to. It does tend to gentle you down a bit. Also, I noticed other people were at least giving themselves a chance to form friendships that way, so yeah, new deal.

The thing that really sucks about social media is how many people are just using you as a vent pillow to scream into. It’s amazing that so many people are using so many websites that pretty much amount to somebody else’s emotional punching bag.

Buddahriffic,

Wait, how do you form a friendship on sites like this? Best I’ve had are brief friendly interactions and then I forget their username unless it’s one of the novelty accounts, in which case “interactions” feel more like celebrity appearances or like a performance than anything else.

Obi,
@Obi@sopuli.xyz avatar

I think Lemmy will be a bit like that too, but I can see it happen for example smaller instances where you interact with the same users over and over on the local communities, more than on the other site.

Buddahriffic,

Maybe I should get in the habit of looking at user names lol. I usually just think of everyone on here as anonymous.

jayrodtheoldbod,

My dude I do not even know. I have managed to be around some people who aren’t like me and gathered the strong impression that people were using social media like it was social, and not anti-social, which I am fluent in. So now I am on a brand-new policy, in the dark and stumbling around. All I can tell you is that the other people are using this thing to meet each other and exchange phone numbers eventually like actual friends. Which makes fuckin sense. If you reply back to other people like you are texting, it changes the nature of the thing. We must both be at peace with letting the thread drop, tho.

I must remind you that the normy world has been using social media to find other people to have sex with for a while, basically pull up the app, swipe swipe swipe until you find a friend for the night and put the phone away, instead of letting the demon consume the next 4 hours somehow. There’s a whole nother paradigm. It seems more entertaining.

But yeah, I think you just treat threads like chats, be cool, and see what happens eventually.

You just avoid that Reddit thing where you come in with your 1500 word truth dunk, that ain’t it.

Buddahriffic,

Yeah it’s crazy to me that people can find a sexual partner on a site like Reddit (or are you just talking about tinder and apps like that?). Meanwhile I’m here avoiding even sharing my province, though I was open about being in Canada. Probably doesn’t help that my desire to be social itself waxes and wanes.

jayrodtheoldbod,

No, I do mean sites like Reddit. The advanced users are making everything act like a dating site when they need it to, because things like tinder don’t work for everyone, so it’s double crazy that they’re making Reddit work for that.

What I was truly referring to is Discord, and all those little communities in there, lots of people making their connections, not just sex, but international friend networking. Snapchat, group chats, all that, they’re busy doing the same, there. Meanwhile, I live as a ghost, interacting with dozens of people a day online, thousands over the years, with nothing much to show for it.

Even out in the real world I’m the kinda guy who can work some place for two years and leave with no new numbers in my phone. It does keep me out of the drama, but I don’t feel I’m striking a balance, either.

So yeah, I wish I knew.

Buddahriffic,

Ooooh discord makes a lot of sense. It’s just the modern version of chat rooms which is where people were hooking up long before tinder was a thing and “a/s/l?” was one of the most common greetings between people just meeting for the first time.

ttmrichter,
@ttmrichter@lemmy.world avatar

I was always confused by why people wanted to know my age, sex, and preferred language, but I played along.

Rozz,

I’m proud of you trying to better yourself.

ihavenopeopleskills,
ihavenopeopleskills avatar

Not knocking your efforts to better yourself, but some people may just need someone to listen or validation. There's nothing wrong with that. That said, there are better places to find both.

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  • elbarto777,

    It’s as if OP posted two unpopular opinions.

    Shardikprime,

    I mean is “Elon bad and anything related also bad” even unpopular

    elbarto777,

    Judging by the upvotes calling OP out…

    Zorque,

    That's probably because OP is posting a popular opinion in an unpopular way.

    slowcurrent,

    Twist: OP owns a Tesla.

    Obi,
    @Obi@sopuli.xyz avatar

    This is just his way of coping with the self-hate.

    Rasta_Imposta,

    More likely OP is in fact, an absolute douche.

    Zorque,

    I don't see how that conflicts with what I said.

    MxM111,
    MxM111 avatar

    Nah, he is just a troll and attention lover.

    snor10,

    Is this even an unpopular opinion? Feels like everything musk touches is anathema nowadays, at least here on Lemmy.

    MauroPantin,

    Don't really understand the energy spent on this matter. Just vote with your wallet. Don't like Tesla? Awesome. Don't buy one. Like them? Go ahead.

    People are allowed to like and dislike things and not everything is run on a manichean paradigm of extreme hyperbole where things are absolute shit or the best thing that's ever happened.

    A Tesla seems, objectively, like an okay car that's fun but usually comes with drawbacks and QA issues. Some will be more enthused by the latest gadget. Some wont.

    Then after that, Musk as a public figure, the bro hype, stupid dodgecoin memes, etc... All of that is just noise.

    Poggervania,
    Poggervania avatar

    Not only that, but posts and topics like this one actually just end up reinforcing Tesla whether they want to or not. It’s one more instance of the word “Tesla” being used, people start engaging on something related to Teslas, and some might start looking up facts or things related to Tesla… in the end, the hate just ends up being absorbed as more traffic and user engagement in relation to Tesla.

    OP, you can also stand to be less of a douche who’s lowkey trying to instigate a flame war. This reads less like “I am against Teslas” and more “I want to start a pissing contest on the internet.”

    Technoguyfication,
    Technoguyfication avatar

    I own a Model Y, don't give a fuck what Elon does or says. I own a Ford too and couldn't tell you who the hell the CEO of Ford is. Their personal opinions have fuck-all to do with the product, in my opinion. I test drove one, loved everything about the car, the charging network is objectively better, and I'm a big fan of self driving so that's a bonus. I'm a little over a year into ownership and there's absolutely no complaints I have about the car, it's been a great experience.

    Now the question is, why do you have such strong opinions about what cars other people buy? I've had a great experience with my Tesla and don't know of any better way I could've spent my money on a vehicle.

    loudWaterEnjoyer,
    @loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    The built quality is shit, you got to give him that

    jballs, (edited )
    @jballs@sh.itjust.works avatar

    People love to hate Teslas, as seen from this post. My only complaint with mine is that there’s a good chunk of the population that translates their hatred for Teslas into unsafe and aggressive driving. It’s like, “Yes I get that you’re far right and hate EVs / far left and hate Elon, but can I please merge onto the highway? My kids are in the car.”

    Technoguyfication,
    Technoguyfication avatar

    Haha, I get this. My other vehicle is a lifted F150 that I use for off-roading and camping, so I'm a sinner in both camps depending on which vehicle I leave the house with.

    MrCaturdayNight,

    It’s just like android vs iPhone wars. I don’t understand how some folks get so hung up on what other people are doing. Don’t like it? Buy something else. Seems a petty reason to be calling people names.

    b1_,
    b1_ avatar

    I get you, man. I like my Volvo but I hate Swedish people! When my hate for the Swedes starts to boil up inside me and I start to grip that wheel hard, I just think of my car's strong but flexible chassis, collision detection, and understated yet elegant interior finishing and it calms me down.

    kingcake,

    Lucky for you Volvo is an 82% Chinese company now.

    inventa,

    I bought a Tesla because I wanted an electric car with certain features and all the other brands, sold thru dealerships, insisted in charging a ‘low stock’ fee of $6-$10k that I wasn’t willing to pay, even though I prefer some of the other options.

    If that makes me a tool… well, ok I guess. I’ll be in the shed if you need me

    IphtashuFitz, (edited )

    One of the reasons I bought my Model Y is the Supercharger network. Last winter my wife an I did a road trip vacation up & down the east coast and we never had a single issue with charging.

    I’m thrilled to see all the other auto manufacturers that have announced support for Teslas NACS adapter. Whenever I’m in the market for my next EV I’ll gladly look at all those options that weren’t available a couple years ago.

    Technoguyfication,
    Technoguyfication avatar

    Exactly this. I expect to keep my Model Y around for a long time, but I'm excited about how much more developed the EV industry will be when it's time for me to buy my next car. More competition is always a good thing, and I'm hoping the new players in the EV space will either produce a better product than Tesla, or force Tesla to iron out more kinks in their products to stay competitive.

    Lemmylaugh,

    Did you know about the subscription fee for the live traffic, no navigation after 8 years, no CarPlay/android auto, extra for the wall charger, and cheap plastic box interior look before buying it though?

    Technoguyfication,
    Technoguyfication avatar

    Yes, as someone who also purchased one. Premium connectivity is $10/mo or $100/yr and it does a lot more than give you access to live traffic. You can also use it to watch Netflix and Youtube, stream music, and straight up browse the web from the car's screen. If you don't want to pay for it you can hotspot the car to your phone.

    I ordered when the wall charger was still included so I still got one.

    I have no complaints about the interior, and anyone who was conscious during the test drive certainly knows what the interior looks like before buying one.

    Lemmylaugh,

    The only important feature in everything you said was live traffic and no you cannot get that with hotspot to your phone.

    partial_accumen,

    The only important feature in everything you said was live traffic and no you cannot get that with hotspot to your phone.

    You get traffic aware routing even without the subscription. You just don’t get colored lines on the screen without the subscription.

    Emet,

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  • Technoguyfication,
    Technoguyfication avatar

    I'm sorry you feel that way, but I truly believe you have a fundamental misunderstanding about what the Tesla premium connectivity subscription is for. Most vehicles don't come with a SIM card and LTE connection that you can use like a phone. It would be ridiculous to pay for premium connectivity in a vehicle that doesn't have those features, but Teslas literally have a cellular data connection. That poses a recurring cost to the carrier (in this case it's AT&T but paid thru Tesla), so it makes perfect sense for that to be a recurring cost to the end user.

    Your car doesn't come with free oil changes or tires for life, so why would Tesla pay a similar amount indefinitely on all it's vehicles?

    FloatingAlong,

    anyone who was conscious during the test drive certainly knows what the interior looks like before buying one.

    Yes, like overpriced, pieced-together shit?

    Technoguyfication, (edited )
    Technoguyfication avatar

    Honest question, have you personally been inside a Tesla or did you form your opinion through YouTube videos, car reviewers, and anecdotes from other people?

    I wouldn't say the interior is on par with a typical "luxury" vehicle by any means, but I don't think it's bad either.

    Edit because I think this is relevant:
    A few weeks ago I made my first large mess in my Model Y. While getting out of the car I slipped and spilled a soda, a pizza slice, and 5 wings all over the seat and floorboards. I had root beer going down the walls, pooling in the seats, saturating the carpet, etc.

    And I have to say, that is the EASIEST interior I've ever cleaned in a car. It took me about 15-20 minutes and it was spotless. The faux leather is sealed nicely so the soda didn't absorb through the stitches or run out the sides, the trim pieces were fit together snugly and I didn't have to go digging to wipe soda out of the door jamb or seat tracks. The fabric on the B pillars and headliner didn't stain, and it was easy to get to any spots I needed to. It doesn't smell like any of the food afterwards either.

    I've spilled shit in a bunch of other cars and trucks of all shapes and sizes, and the Tesla was the easiest to clean up by far. I was impressed.

    ttmrichter,
    @ttmrichter@lemmy.world avatar

    My boss owns a Tesla Model X. I have had many rides from him and while taking those rides I’ve formed … opinions … about Tesla’s vehicles:

    • Autopilot is actively dangerous. Thankfully my boss isn’t an idiot and doesn’t use it ever outside of the time he demonstrated it to me.
    • The automatic parking was comical. Again while demonstrating it, the car went back and forth and back and forth and eventually my boss gave up on it and parked manually. In one move. He doesn’t use the automatic parking.
    • The gull wing doors are fucking stupid. Open them in a rainy day with even a slight hint of wind (but how many rainy days are windy too!?</s>) and you’ll see why.
    • The driver’s in-dash display is prone to hallucinations like having cars next to use at a stop light showing as spinning around like helicopter blades. Or having the massive truck next to us being displayed as a bicycle.
    • The main display is this huge fugly rectangle in a car that would otherwise be … passable interior design. It took an interior design that I actually thought was decent (not great, but not bad) and threw it into the bin to make it something that was just so jarringly ugly it amazed me.

    Now to be fair, there’s some things I liked about the car too:

    • Interior space engineering was OK. Most American cars don’t leave me enough usable leg room. This did. It wasn’t as nice as some of the BMWs I’ve been in, or even Toyotas, but it was way better than any North American car I’ve sat in.
    • I love the combo windshield/sunroof. The fact that the windshield extends to over my head and beyond is lovely.
    • The performance was decently impressive.
    Shardikprime,

    Sounds like a great experience over all. Seems people is a little miffed they can’t actually buy one

    partial_accumen,

    I’ve been running for just about a year without the Premium Connectivity subscription.

    Did you know about the subscription fee for the live traffic,

    There’s no fee for traffic aware route planning. The only thing the subscription fee gives you for traffic is the colored lines (red, yellow, green) on the screen when you look at it indicating traffic density. If you’re using navigation without the subscription, the routing takes you to exactly the same place on using the exact same roads while taking traffic density into account as the subscription does, just no colored lines.

    no CarPlay/android auto,

    You can use Carplay and Android Auto on your Tesla screen via third party apps. Here is a video of it is running on a Model 3 The app I use cost $5 to enable Android Auto on the Tesla.

    extra for the wall charger

    My wall charger came with the car.

    no navigation after 8 years,

    I guess I’ll use Android Auto then.

    Sorry to kill your rant points.

    A_Random_Idiot,

    my favorite tesla fact is that the ass ends of the car are only held on with double sided tape and fall off cause they are so poorly designed that they fill with water when driving in the rain.

    Technoguyfication,
    Technoguyfication avatar

    I'm not sure where you got this from? The rear bumper on the Model Y is held on with a couple bolts and industry-standard body clips. You can watch a disassembly video here:

    https://youtu.be/BWmAlfzCtoc?t=515

    A_Random_Idiot,
    Technoguyfication,
    Technoguyfication avatar

    Absolutely nowhere does it say that the bumpers are held on with tape. Bumpers falling off was a real issue at one point, and it has been fixed by now. You can't just make up random extra bullshit and try to pass it off as "facts".

    ANuStart,

    So you just repeat whatever you see online, no wonder propaganda works so well on people.

    A_Random_Idiot,

    First of all, its a fact. autoblog.com/…/tesla-model-3-bumper-defect-warran…

    Second of all, fuck off, Muskrat.

    ANuStart,

    Lol I am not even defending Elon or even talking about him in any way... I literally don't care an ounce about what that guy does.

    I am just making an observation about how easily manipulated you are.

    You're so angry, let it go

    Technoguyfication,
    Technoguyfication avatar

    That article you keep posting says nothing about the bumpers being taped on. It's also almost 3 years old and the problem was fixed long ago, so you should probably find a new "favorite Tesla fact".

    The fact that you resorted to personally attacking @ANuStart instead of defending your "facts" with actual evidence says a lot.

    Metal_Zealot,

    This is going to be what Lemmy is for a while, isn’t it

    SaltySalamander,
    SaltySalamander avatar

    Wow, spoken like an absolute tool.

    eusousuperior,

    Although I do believe Elon has been acting like a fucking maniac for the past few years, I would still buy a Tesla if I had the money for it. There’s absolutely no other electric vehicle on the market with so much tech and so much power for so little money.

    Quality? For sure others are better in this regard. But just pure fun and power? No other even comes close, and the ones that do (Porsche Taycan, etc) are much more expensive to buy AND maintain.

    There’s a reason Tesla model 3 is the best selling electric vehicle in the WORLD. Shit’s good yo.

    We have to know how to separate Elon, the character from the products and services his company provides. (except Twitter, it’s gonna burn to the ground.)

    DocMcStuffin,
    @DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world avatar

    He’s always been a maniac. People just started noticing after the Thailand cave incident.

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-FGwDDc-s8

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=DopFo1rjAr4

    joolez,

    You would buy “the best tech” with “little money” on costs of quality, longivity and safety.

    Just look at the control-arm problems and the way they “fix” it. Its disturbing.

    Please never get trapped.

    some_guy,

    We have to know how to separate Elon

    My principles don’t allow for funneling money towards people who I believe will use it to make the world a shittier place.

    mikelo22,

    Do you actually think the tech and gadgets you use, the clothes you wear, etc, are all made/created from some wholesome benefactor? The products we use are the result of abusing third world/developing nations, including child labor. What a hypocrite.

    some_guy,

    There’s the cold ugly truth about capitalism, to which I haven’t opted out. To some degree, that makes me a bad person for going along with a system I know I can’t change. And then there’s directly supporting a transphobic piece of shit who helps spread conspiracy theories online. I’ll opt not to go along with the second one.

    entropicshart,
    @entropicshart@lemmy.world avatar

    You must live your whole life buying from only neighboring farms and individual creators, right?

    I am curious which farm produced the smartphone and/or computer you’re using to browse this site?

    LClaypool2112,

    There’s absolutely no other electric vehicle on the market with so much tech and so much power for so little money.

    That's just blatantly false. There are a lot of other options out there that are at least comparable, if not outright better, than the Tesla models.

    CCatMan,

    The best part of Tesla is the ability to purchase online without needing a dealer network. This is what I want other companies to copy.

    WetBeardHairs,

    For real. I shopped around every single EV on the market from the Bolt EV to the Cadillac Lyric. Every dealer wanted to gouge me.

    Then I finally gave in and test drove a model 3. It was a generation better than anything else I had driven and it was cheaper. Sold. The charger network also helped to push me over the edge.

    CCatMan,

    Yeah, I just can’t get rid of the coment in my head that driving a Tesla is like driving a printer.

    varzaman,

    You’re right, this is an unpopular opinion.

    I find it funny that

    1. You care this much about what other people drive when it has nothing to do with safety.
    2. Think people even think about Elon when they buy a Tesla.
    time_lord,

    And they’re not particularly well built; how many of these do you think will be on the road 20 years from now?

    These two are not mutually exclusive. They’re not well built, but they also have rediculously low failure rates. So they may have a lot more rattles, but I’d be surprised if most of the Teslas on the road today, don’t last until they’re at least 12, which is the average age of a car in America IIRC.

    dynamojoe,

    I can at least congratulate you for finding the right forum. Fuck Elon regardless but I know a good deal when I see one and I can handle a little moral quandary. I like my '23 M3 and my TSLA gains. Enjoy your life getting pissed over the meaningless choices of others.

    Kinglink,

    “Fuck you for trying to buy a car that you might enjoy, now get back to the shitty car companies who have a monopoly on the automotive business.”

    Like seriously, Hate Elon all you want, but no we haven’t known “for years” and you claims on “safety items” seems dubious at best. But more importantly people wanted a specific car. If you buy it specifically because of Elon, ok, but most people just want the best car, and pretending the automotive industry isn’t filled with the absolute worst of humanity (Far worse than Elon, just not public facing enough)… like you’re kidding yourself bud.

    If you’ve bought a Tesla in the last five or so years, you’re a damn goober in my eyes. That’s my hot take, prepared for being called poor and other sodium, tear filled comments from fools whose opinions don’t matter.

    Here’s my hot take, I really don’t give a shit what you think, and I’m saying this as a non-Tesla owner. It’s not about you being poor, or any other salty, you’re a pure asshole (let me guess BMW driver). You belittle others who “opinions don’t matter” but I’m really struggling why does anyone care what you think at that rate?

    And no this being “Unpopular” isn’t good enough this is just a shitty argument. This is OP just being argumentative and insulting.

    Hell the “Elaine” joke should offend those who propose to care about gendered insults, but I suppose that will be accepted because “Bad man deserved it” or something. Do the same to Elliot Page, and you’d be crucified though.

    feld,
    @feld@bikeshed.party avatar

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  • krigo666,

    The title is misleading, the problems happen in all AutoPilot equipped Teslas.

    Shocking Leaked Tesla Documents Hint at Cybertruck Problems

    m3t00,
    @m3t00@lemmy.world avatar

    get a jeep tire rotation at dealer service and they add unscheduled brake maintenance not covered under warranty. $900. Tesla checked wear in my driveway and said it wasn’t needed. $0.00

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