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Researchers jailbreak a Tesla to get free in-car feature upgrades::A group of researchers found a way to hack a Tesla's hardware with the goal of getting free in-car upgrades, such as heated rear seats.

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[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago

This is an interesting comment to make. For years I've seen people shitting all over musk and Tesla, specifically because they have a ton of build quality issues

No, it's not "almost universal". Even before musk becomes public idiot number one, there was a lot of hate for these cars

[-] hayes_@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Maybe my opinion is dated/anecdotal.

My belief re: critics comes from early days of Tesla, when the concept of a fast ev was very foreign to most auto journalists. So, most of the reviews were something along the lines of “I wanted to hate this car, but goddamn if it isn’t faster than insert critic’s favorite sports car and way more useful too. I’m converted.”

Re: people in general, I’m basing it off of people I know who own them. That’s admittedly a very small sample size (~a dozen), but their opinions are the polar opposite of what you’ll find on random Internet forums. There’s definitely selection bias going on in both directions.

For what it’s worth, I’m very aware of the QA issues and no I don’t own a Tesla myself.

[-] aesthelete@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Most people that have purchased Teslas have already been invested and just about everything ever including gut feel tells you at that point that they're not going to say it was a mistake to buy a thing they spent $50-100k on.

People don't like admitting they were suckered, and certainly not to people they are trying to impress.

[-] neutrino@feddit.nl -1 points 1 year ago

How do you come to that conclusion, and why would it be different for any other car?

I have both a bmw (330, 6 cylinder) and a tesla m3. The bmw is only 2 years older. Nowadays I prefer to drive the m3 by a wide margin for various reasons.

Musk had nothing to do with that, on the contrary it is more in spite of him than because of him that I bought one. I think that goes for most Tesla owners, as most of them are politically moderate and centrists and do not like extremists like him (or any).

Right wingers are ideologically against it and rather damage themselves by their ideology, and lefists tend to not have the money :) or (in Europe at least) are against any means of individual non-public transport.

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