Re:Tesla recalls almost half a million electric cars over sa...
by legerdemain on Thursday December 30, 2021 @10:12PM
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I think we can allow adult car owners to decide on their own what is a genuine hazard and what is scaremongering.
Re:Tesla recalls almost half a million electric cars over sa...
by mikeheaton on Thursday December 30, 2021 @10:35PM
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No that’s literally what minimum safety standards are for, because we can’t expect consumers to do that effectively. And while imperfect they’ve been demonstrated over many decades to improve safety and public welfare. Also because if your front hood pops up and you swerve and crash your car, it puts other road users in danger not just your adult car owning sef.
Re:Tesla recalls almost half a million electric cars over sa...
by kaba0 on Friday December 31, 2021 @02:51AM
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Yeah, and any adult can also decide to drive without license, and drunk as well, because they are responsible human beings. Oh wait
Re:Tesla recalls almost half a million electric cars over sa...
by cush on Friday December 31, 2021 @01:01PM
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In general, roads are shared between multiple adults.
When one adult is being a dangerous moron, the other adults can create systems to prevent said moron from being on the road. This is how regulation is born.
So the decision was never the moron’s to make in the first place.
Re:Tesla recalls almost half a million electric cars over sa...
by ouid on Friday December 31, 2021 @12:36AM
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Uh, you do realize that a collision requires, at a minimum, two rigid objects?
Re:Tesla recalls almost half a million electric cars over sa...
by hulitu on Sunday January 02, 2022 @02:25PM
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"But officer, i decided that i don't need headlights in the dark. I can sense the road".
Shall we allow also drunk adult car owners to decide on their own what is a genuine hazard and what is scaremongering ?
One of these involves the frunk potentially opening itself on the highway. That's a pretty serious issue, and probably significantly more dangerous than most of the repairs that need to be made.
> Another reason why car over-regulation hurts the driver most of all!
This isn't car over-regulation. Tesla does not have the capacity to repair all of their vehicles in a timely manner, and will not make the repair manual available for reasonable prices so that 3rd party shops could do the repairs.
You know who can fix my Dodge if the dealer is backed up with warranty stuff? Every other mechanic shop on the planet.
Tesla shipped a faulty product, Tesla doesn't have the repair facilities to rectify that, and now Tesla owners are suffering because of it.
It is in no way the government's fault for not wanting people driving around 2 ton hunks of metal at 70 mph when a piece of it might randomly obstruct their vision at any point. That seems an eminently reasonable requirement to me.