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Aburt's Tesla FAQ

I've taken my FAQ page down, as I can no longer recommend Teslas without reservation. My reservations are that:

  • Elon Musk is hurting the company. It's hard to tell what further impact this will have for the company and thus for anyone who buys a Tesla, so I can't recommend Teslas as a result.
  • Elon Musk should choose one role or the other: Tesla CEO or "DOGE." He had already watered down his time commitment to Tesla with SpaceX, Starlink, etc. etc., and the car company has suffered as a result. Being a CEO is a full time job, and he should commit his full time to it, or step aside as CEO. This is not good for a company. I can't recommend a product where the CEO is not focusing on his company.
  • His activities with "DOGE" do not appear to be legal, nor do they appear to fall under the actual umbrella of "efficiency." These are making Tesla cars and their owners the target of anger and violence, as well as creating uncertainty for the health of the company, and I thus can't recommend anyone purchase a car where the car or themselves may put themselves in harm's way or buy such a large ticket product from a company with an uncertain future.
  • The cars themselves have not been updated much, and are being surpassed by other brands of EVs. They have regularly missed on promised feature rollouts, and rolled out features have not worked as stated. (FSD, summon, etc.) This likely relates back to Elon Musk not focusing on Tesla and improving the cars. (No apple carplay? No 360 view? etc.) Some of the new features do not appear to be improvements to me. (Removal of the turn signal stalk, the "yoke" steering wheel that makes turning difficult, etc.) I can no longer recommend Teslas as the best technology.
  • There are questions about data collection and privacy of information collected in the car. I can't recommend Teslas to anyone concerned about data privacy.

I do believe EVs are much supperior to gas cars for many reasons. (Less costly to run, amazing acceleration, not having to go to the stinky gas station, etc.)