I admit I didn’t watch the video — I’ve trained YouTube’s algorithm well at this point and don’t want Tesla content — but what the fuck is a predictive odometer? The tires roll a certain distance. We’ve had odometers for like 75 years.
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The article mentions that Tesla is kind of justifying the behavior by saying it is based on energy consumption and some other bullshit. The expectation according to SAE, which I find very interesting, is to be in a range of +/- 4% and for GPS enabled odometers+/- 2.5%, Tesla is missing the mark for at least 36%.
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The video shows it going like 14999 to 15001 skipping 15000.
You'd think they would make it increment every half mile instead of doing something stupid like this.
Yeah if you're gonna do a fraud at least put the minimum thought into it. It's disrespectful is what it is. Gives honest grifters a bad name
"shit i always do that i always mess up some mundane detail" ~ Tesla Engineers probably
Except in this case they're defrauding customers instead of corporate like in Office Space... not quite as fun.
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We need to call them what they are; shills.
Seriously. This dude is delusional.
The law firm going after Tesla for this offered to represent him via a class action, and this idiot has the gall to ask the law firm for payment?
The world would be better off if his Tesla self-drove itself into a wall. Ideally with him inside.
Insanity hey. Goes to show you can very easily be wealthy but not smart.
Can't argue with that XD
His main deal is that he does Tesla stuff. His website is "Tesla Pittsburgh," so yeah, he's a Tesla guy.
Pathetic losers. And, even "Nazis" if they're still in the Tesla community.
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A product that has a warranty which depends on any "predictive" metric is probably a scam, tbh.
Their insurance is (was?) kind of like that as well if you get the saftey score one. While some things are more general and concrete like following distance, time of day driving, they have one for forward collision warnings.
I'm not sure how much time you've spent in a Tesla, but that system is notorious for going off incorrectly. It's specifically really bad with parked cars on the side of the road on turns. So you're driving along a city street with cars parked on the side and it goes off and now your insurance premiums are more expensive.
I don't think you could find a single Tesla owner who hasn't had multiple false warnings, and consistently in certain circumstances.
So someone of course starts a lawsuit and Tesla initially defends itself, but just last week or something like that, it's no longer part of the safety score
Breaking news. Learned something new today.
I mean this utterly unironically: I'm glad :)