This isn't "giving" a privilege. It is a matter of not burdening them with something that is completely unnecessary.
These other companies signed away their point of sale long, long ago. Then everyone gets laws passed which demand that anyone in the future add middle men so they will be equally inefficient.
Of course the argument always comes up, "it's the law, they should abide by it." This argument is always paired with the implied notion that they shouldn't even challenge the law. They should just go along with the law that their competitors wrote to prevent competition. It's a bad law, it needs changing. If it gets changed then everyone can enjoy the same "privilege".
Tesla wants to make something and sell it. This shouldn't require government "privilege" to accomplish. The notion of government planning of industry needs to be squashed.
Re:Tesla Clashes With Car Dealers
by thaumasiotes on Tuesday June 18, 2013 @02:41AM
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Preventing Tesla from breaking up the weird dysfunctional system is not the way to get it dropped for all manufacturers. It's the way to enshrine it even more firmly than it already is.
Society could simply allocate its resources more efficiently if the law is dropped for all manufacturers. Protecting the status quo at the cost of inefficient allocation can not be justified.