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The lead plaintiff in the case, Nyree Hinton, bought a used Model Y with less than 37,000 miles (59,546 km) on the odometer. Within six months, it had pushed past the 50,000-mile (80,467 km) mark, at which point the car's bumper-to-bumper warranty expired. (Like virtually all EVs, Tesla powertrains have a separate warranty that lasts much longer.)

For this six-month period, Hinton says his Model Y odometer gained 13,228 miles (21,288 km). By comparison, averages of his three previous vehicles showed that with the same commute, he was only driving 6,086 miles (9,794 km) per 6 months.

Edit: I just want to point out that I just learned that changing your tires to ones of a different diameter can also affect how your spedometer clocks. So yeah, this issue is full of nuance and plausible things as to why this could not be true.

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[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 35 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Has anyone compared it to a GPS?

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[–] Widdershins@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It is weird that he probably saw Danny DeVito rolling back the odometers in Matilda while in a K hole and misconstrued the whole situation. That scene of Danny with the drill taking thousands of miles off an old beater probably seemed like a jackpot idea in that drug addled mind of his.

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[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Feels like they should be able to view the software and hardware controlling the odometer, and if it's doing anything suspicious.

I wonder if they'll actually do anything if they find Tesla is doing fraud. Feel like everyone who OK'd the decision should be barred from working in the industry for life, and made to forfeit everything they gained while doing the fraud.

While I'm making magical wishes, I'd also like Musk and all of his followers to choke to death.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago

Like they can't even be competent enough to hire a hitman to kill their whistleblowers. Boeing are just laughing at them.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It cannot possibly be legal to have the odometer show anything except actual miles traveled.

[–] BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah I thought odometer fraud was like a serious thing, I wonder if it applies here.

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[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Tesla? Muskrat? Engaged in fraud‽‽

Well I am just shocked, SHOCKED...well, not that shocked

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 13 points 2 days ago

Very appropriate use of the interrobang.

[–] mooncake@lemm.ee 21 points 2 days ago

Teslas are nothing more than heaps of junk, I just laugh at anyone driving a Tesla

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago

Hinton's lawsuit alleges that Tesla "employs an odometer system that utilizes predictive algorithms, energy consumption metrics, and driver behavior multipliers that manipulate and misrepresent the actual mileage traveled by Tesla Vehicles" and that his car "consistently exhibited accelerated mileage accumulations of varying percentages ranging from 15 percent to 117 percent higher than plaintiff's other vehicles and his driving history."

Here comes Big Government, trying to constrain cutting edge innovations in accurately counting how many times the wheel rotates.

I hope DOGE is able to save California from itself by defunding whatever court system might be involved in persecuting hard working odometer engineers with this flagrantly Woke and Soy legal case.

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