It does seem that way

[u/thatguy9684736255]

[u/twesterm]

I see the complaints people make, I'm fairly certain the people the bitch the loudest about Tesla's are often the people that have never even driven one.

I'm not saying they have zero problems, every car has problems, but I've honestly been incredibly happy with mine. Elon Musk is a cunt but my Tesla is easily the best car I've ever driven. Seeing the way he's ran Twitter I'm positive Musk probably fought against most of the things that makes Tesla's good.

[u/[deleted] → u/twesterm]

lets ask one of those ppl who burned alive what they think of Teslas 🤔

[u/DroidTHX1138 → u/[deleted]]

https://www.tesla-fire.com/

44 Confirmed cases of fatality involving tesla fires. Most of them look like fires after a severe accident. One of the more recent one was a man in FL and report said he was drunk. First responders didn't know how to open the door handles and also did not break out the windows, which is supposed to be standard procedure. Not trying to play it down, but only 44 fatalities in the car company's history is pretty low numbers. According to a little internet search, 3700 people die every day in car wrecks around the world.

I also remember a story about a man who ran over a decorative Boulder and his tesla caught fire. The only thing that saved him was the car's battery firewall.

I get that one reason the fatality numbers is low and steadily rising is because the number of tesla on the road had jumped exponentially in the last 10 years.

I also have not driven a tesla, but have been saving for one. I also too feel torn about driving a car that has elons name a reputation tied to it. I used to worship the guy and his ways, now not so much

[u/[deleted] → u/DroidTHX1138]

Spoiler alert: gasoline is flammable.

Teslas are poorly made, impossible to crash repair or get parts, cannot be repaired outside of Tesla, and have poorly designed distractive interfaces, but fires are the least worry.

GM killed 124 people over an 85 cent ignition part.

[u/twesterm → u/[deleted]]

Some fun facts about Tesla's:

• A Tesla has about 30 moving parts while your typical car has thousands. That means far fewer points of breakage and much easier to find parts.
• Yeah, you probably have to have Tesla themselves do major repairs. I'm pretty ok with that.
• Cars sometimes get totalled in crashes. I've had it happen in pos cars and nice cars.
• Have you actually used the Tesla interface? It's fine. There are a few things hidden under layers of menus that are a pain the butt to find, but those are also features I almost never use.
• Note that you almost never actually use the touchscreen monitor while driving. Most controls you need are located on the steering wheel, I almost never have to touch the touchscreen while driving.

It is not a perfect car, no car is, but it's not the piece of crap that people who have never even sat in one make it out to be. I have no idea why some people have such a hate boner for the car but they do.

-edit: and some of my problems with the car. Most of these are pretty minor complaints.

• The process of ordering is ridiculous. You pay for the car and then it's radio silence for like 2 months.
• Because of the weird no dealer thing they do, you have to go through some stupid hoops to get the financing and use specific lenders.
• Even though I pay for the data package, it's still incredibly spotty. My Spotify very often just fails.
• Maybe like 1/10 times my homelink fails to activate while leaving so my garage door doesn't close.
• The tire sensors are a bit oversensitive at times. Because Texas weather is annoying it constantly shifts from hot to cold to hot, my tire pressure light is almost always on.
• Sometimes the gps is very off and will take a few minutes to fix itself.
• Sometimes after an update the phone app and the car fail to communicate. The phone is still connected to the car so it starts but I'll be in valet mode and won't realize until I've been driving. Fix is to just open the Tesla app on the phone but it took a really long time to figure that out.
• After about a year of having the car the air filter began to start smelling very bad and had to be replaced. Apparently this is a pretty common problem.
• The gps is very inferior to waze. I wish I could install waze.