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Enough Musk Spam

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[–] Aeri@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I honestly think saying that Tesla's are good cars is glazing him too much to be honest. They're basically the iPhone of cars. That's not an endorsement by the way that's condemnation I fucking hate iphones. The best thing that Elon musk could be argued to have done is to make people realize that EVS are viable.

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 8 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

You're totally allowed to hate iPhones (I'm not arguing otherwise), but iPhone hardware is way better built than Tesla cars. I don't think it's fair to compare the two quality-of-build-wise.

[–] Aeri@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I'm mostly thinking of the atrocious repair ecosystem.

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 1 points 21 hours ago

That’s fair, but again Apple seems to be getting better and Tesla worse.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 23 hours ago

iPhones don’t trap you in a fiery death without door handles lol.

[–] cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Aeri@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

To be fair i never said he was.

[–] hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 23 hours ago

But he did that by bribing himself into being called a founder of an electric car company that already existed and already had the plan for initial growth before his arrival.

His main contribution to EV adoption is a negative one; the years delay the rollout of tesla's dowmarket models because of his insistence the doors of the model X must open upwards.

[–] NovaVeles@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

Ok, these are the only two good points to Musk;s name.

Yes, he did do a decent job of kick starting EV's again even if it was by crushing down the founders for narcissistic reasons.

Secondly, he did generally tend to have a decent eye for enabling some design details (pre-cyber truck era). He did at least push them to move car design a little further on the original few models, you know the ones that actually sell decent numbers.

Beyond that, there isn't much good to his name.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Apple makes phones for people who hate technology but are forced to have a smartphone in the modern era.

[–] Aeri@lemmy.world 0 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago