Good thing we have the CFPB to register and punish companies for shady practices like th...oh, nevermind.
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Wrong gutted regulator
Or intentionally?
odometer += sensor * this_is_just_for_debugging_i_promise(odometer);
Wow that's a scummy thing to do. Just like apple I will never buy a Tesla product.
Apple’s odometers are fine.
You can't change the tire size on a Model Y very much because of the weird suspension design.
Plus, to double the mileage registered by using different size tires, you'd have to put a roughly 10" tire on a Model Y.
In the past, Tesla lawyers even initiated lawsuits against customers who dared to criticize the quality of their cars or services. Such cases are documented and therefore not fake news. Last week, moreover, DOGE dismantled the department responsible for safety control and approval of new cars entering the market. Tesla experienced too many problems with this department in the past and now, through DOGE, took the opportunity to simply dismantle it. Moral of the story... buy a Tesla, a “safe” decision.
Well I'm curious to find out what discovery will show.
A odometer is a smell sensor, no?
They don't install those in new cars, you need one made in the ol'factory.
How silly, it's obvious that would be an odormeter. An odometer is about something else entirely.
Obviously!
That's a smellometer!
Let's use the Smelloscope!
Changing your tire sizing only changes the speedo and odo a few percent. You can usually just ignore it unless you're making drastic changes.
Yeah aeems a pretty useless edit for an obvious fact. Especially as in this case you would need tires half the circumference of the original to make sense.. Gotta be some tiny tires..
Edit, had it the wrong way around
Hey Siri how do I convert from inches to circumstance
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That's 70 miles a day, for anyone who doesn't want to do the math. I don't know where Hinton lives, but that's almost two laps around all of the highways surrounding the city I live in. That's 2 hours of driving on surface roads, not including stop lights and stop signs.
I wonder how much money Tesla has saved by breaking the law this way?
112 km a day, not a bad commute by Toronto standards - it’s one way for the Barrie to Toronto drivers
Sure, but it’s an additional 70 miles. Not something that would go unnoticed.
Or about 11 swedish miles per day.
What's that in Ikea meatballs?
What Swedish mile?
The unity mile, of course. It’s 10,688.54 m.
Add this to the pile of the rest of the illegal things billionaire Musk does simply because he can
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The speedometer is also predictive.
From Berlin to Warsaw in one tank.
Is it accurate though? Your mileage may vary.
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Should be super easy to prove too... Take an assortment of Teslas to a 1 mile stretch of road, drive it up and down 20 times, measure the mileage before and after.
Right, but Tesla has had time to push new code to their cars. So we could get a negative result now and still have past shadiness.
If the courts cared for the rights of people they would subpoena code routinely
We can't be ruled by black boxes that serve people who hate us. It has to end
There's got to be a git repository out there that has a smoking gun in its history...
"Tesla commits fraud to void warranties."
There FTFY.
It's far more likely that the odometer in Teslas are just poor quality crap like the rest of the car.
Even more likely there is a bug ticket in thier system that says some part is malfunctioning causing the odometer to count too fast. And that ticket has been depriortized by product management repeatedly as fixing it generates no increase in revenue.
No, it isn't. Tesla's past behavior shows that they would definitely try to do this, because they would make a lot of money. And if the odometers were "randomly" poor quality, why would we only see reports of mileage being mistakenly high? Where are the mistaken low reports? Haven't seen any of those.
Would most people notice that? Would they say something if they did? If this particular warranty is mileage based, I'd keep my mouth shut if mine was abnormally low. It's not like it's something that affects the functioning of the car, and has other potential advantages like higher resale value.
And even if you said something, who is going to report on it? This is news because it's gone to court. You're not going to try to take them to court for it being low. At best you'll just try to get it fixed.
I'm not saying this isn't something they would do, I just don't necessarily think we'd definitely see reports of it being low, even if it was happening.
If they were actually doing this, and actually being smart about it though, they'd have it go over at a rate of say, 30% of cars, and under at a rate of like 10% of cars so they'd still come out on top but actually have it seem to be randomly faulty.
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