This is cruel 😏

If someone asks me why my electric car is not a Tesla, my prepared answer is that I am not a Nazi. Perhaps I should add that I like to stay alive...

A friend has a Tesla, and I recently went for a ride with him in it.

On the armrest are a small, inconspicuous button I assumed to be the window lift, and a large lever right at resting hand location, which I assumed to be the door latch.
WRONG.
My friend urgently warned me that the large, obvious lever was NOT the door latch, but instead some sort of emergency release that detaches the door such that it requires a dealer to reattach it. The tiny, unobvious button was the door latch (as I proved by experiment when I exited the vehicle).

Apparently, Tesla spent more engineering capital on adding the ability to make farting noises when turning than on basic ergonomics.

But sure, discount all of the criticism as Elon-hating. After all, what possible legitimate criticism could there be of a bigoted, egotistical, Nazi-coddling manbaby whose companies evolved management systems specifically to defuse his more insane inspirations of the moment and steer him away from breaking anything important with them?

And which of us hasn't paid billions over market buying a company and then driven it straight into the ground?

I'm just shocked on this crap...

Like #Tesla has worse #QualityControl than the #Trabant had!

And that was a piece of shit fiber-reinforced plastic car with rusty shit steel and a 2 cylinder 660cm³ aircooled, two-stroke engine that was gravity-fed from the tank right above it!

youtube.com/watch?v=No1-4GsQa-…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabant

@sbi wow:
> Tesla hasn't "worked all the bugs out yet" is that the company is run by people who hold established best practice in ideological contempt, and is defined by a tech-industry culture that fetishizes innovation and regards product quality as a third-order concern. There simply isn't as much investment money and credulous tech-media adulation to suck up in the promise of iterating on what already works.

I’m reminded of times in my own career people go for something because it is the new hotness, not because it fixes anything

@tofugolem That writer is new to me, but his prose is first rate. I just went down a Defector rabbit hole, reading at least 7 of his articles. In a hundred years of effort I will still only write half as well

Thanks for sharing!