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Re:Female Founder Secrets: Fertility by mempko on Friday March 05, 2021 @10:40AM (#26358033)
What's wrong here? It's not like Elon designed the model S, Mercedes engineers along with Tesla ones did. Mercedes invested in 10% of Tesla and even ordered Tesla batteries for Mercedes models. But found Tesla didn't test their batteries for durability and safety. Mercedes reduced the range of their B models and added shielding to compensate. Tesla owners had to learn the hard way after several Model S cars caught on fire. Tesla fixed it after the fact.

I wouldn't trust a company cutting so many corners. Recent recall is another example.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-tesla-newera-insigh...

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Re:Female Founder Secrets: Fertility by sokoloff on Friday March 05, 2021 @11:23AM (#26358605)
Tesla has sold over 1,000,000 cars at this point. Over 99.997% of those were sold after Musk was CEO.

So, while it's technically absolutely true that "they sold cars before Elon joined", it's a literal rounding error.

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Re:Female Founder Secrets: Fertility by mempko on Saturday March 06, 2021 @08:06PM (#26372122)
Here I am, trying to give credit to Tesla's success to the countless engineers and designers who did 99.9% of the work. By your own math, what Elon did is a rounding error.
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