• RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com
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    8 hours ago

    Tesla is basically a case study in top down engineering. Radical ideas promised by marketing, sometimes good and sometimes bad, executed in a massive fucking rush which results in tons of build quality and general delivering on promises issues.

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      8 hours ago

      Which only worked at first because they were a start up. At that point many people will accept the early adopter woes, but Tesla never quite matured out of it.

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        6 hours ago

        yep. They rested on their laurels, thinking their success of being first would always be success.

        and now the big automakers have their own electric cars, that are properly built, and damn cheap compared to tesla prices.

        and the first tesla musk had any design input on was the cybertruck, which is nothing more than the fever dream of an edgy emotionally stunted 13 year old, and built to about the same quality as you would expect from one