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Electric Vehicles are a key part of our tomorrow and how we get there. If we can get all the fossil fuel vehicles off our roads, out of our seas and out of our skies, we'll have a much better environment. This community is where we discuss the various different vehicles and news stories regarding electric transportation.

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Thinking about an EV? I would strong suggest avoiding a Tesla and picking another brand. (lemm.ee)

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CEO of Tesla and acting President-elect Musk is going on a neo-Nazi binge endorsing far right candidates instead of properly running the companies he's involved in such as Tesla.

In addition Tesla is considered one of the most unreliable car brands according to: https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-placed-bottom-consumer-reports-reliability-rankings/

Moreover Tesla has the highest fatal accident rates of all car brands according to: https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a62919131/tesla-has-highest-fatal-accident-rate-of-all-auto-brands-study/

Also there are privacy implications with using a car that could in theory spy on you: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/05/massive-trove-of-tesla-files-contains-thousands-of-safety-complaints/

Now that more competent and establish brands are making EVs there's no reason to buy a Tesla if you want an EV. I'm not here to recommend another brand, I'm just here to tell you that your next EV should be anything other than a Tesla.

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[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There's a reason for that. The FSD is what's killing people. It's not that it's impossible, it's that it's not mature yet.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It’s also that Tesla is attempting to do it all without radar or LiDAR scanners, I think now only using cameras. The company that used to develop their systems even dropped Tesla because it didn’t agree with this approach.

An ironic twist is that the company that was developing it said they didn’t want it referred to as autopilot, and they were also Israeli, which would have added another reason to boycott for many.

That’s also making it impossible for me to find their name at the moment because both Tesla and Israel have done so much stupid shit in the last few years it’s drowning out the older news items.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

You gotta use news archive searches at that point.

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As little as I want to defend Tesla, and I'm not. People get way more worked up when a computer kills someone versus a distracted driver.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah but computers are supposed to reduce fatalities. Instead Tesla has the highest fatalities.

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It might as well be an infinitely complex question to me. Do Tesla drivers have poor motor skills because they're dumb? Do motor skills even have a correlation with general intelligence? Or does it skew this way because people who have more money (age) have poor motor skills?

I don't know I'm definitely not a statistician.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

You'd have to prove there was something different about the drivers. We've got evidence of a defect in the cars.