cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14173417
Elon Musk admitted to using two secret alternate accounts on his social media platform X (formerly Twitter) in a deposition for a lawsuit against the billionaire. He said that he used some accounts on the social media site outside of his main public account when he was asked to clarify if he used an account on X that had been linked to him by several users on social media. Some users posted a screenshot of his X interface last year in which the additional account appeared to be visible.
He’s worth the money because he owns the stock.
He isn’t as much of a worker as he is someone who owns a lot of the company.
Personally I think he’s outlived his usefulness at Tesla. X has become his passion project.
I’d like to see a new ceo at Tesla. Great cars. He hyped them well then lost interest.
Doubt.
Do you own one? I do. Best car I’ve ever driven. Elon didn’t design it or build it himself. You can dislike Elon but still like the cars.
I guess they’re fine when they aren’t killing people or issuing massive recalls or deploying the breaks spontaneously or facing build quality concerns or trying to blame customers for defective parts but hey, at least they’re not quite the worst in terms of reliability.
or blatantly spying on your users
The recalls are normally OTA fixes.
Never had a mechanical issue with mine.
I always think it’s funny when people try to tell you your experience. I own an Audi and a Tesla. The Tesla is the better car.
Lol no one’s trying to tell you your experience, they’re trying to tell you the experiences reported by everyone else. That’s the difference between anecdotal evidence and empirical evidence.
Everyone I know loves their Tesla. It’s why their satisfaction rating is so high.
https://www.kbb.com/car-news/study-excluding-tesla-few-ev-owners-would-go-ev-again/#:~:text=More than 70%25 of Tesla,another Tesla%2C the study found.
Telsa owners remain more loyal than owners of other brands’ EVs
Tesla is similar to Apple in the regard that owners of their products are something of a cult following and their satisfaction is not based on the quality of the product, but possibly other psychological factors such as being part of what they perceive as an exclusive “in group”.
Or we are just pleased with the product. I’ve had fewer issues with my Tesla than any other car.
Unfortunately I’m on the other side of that, my family has a Tesla which has been to the shop more times in the 2 years we’ve owned it than our past 3 cars combined needed to over more than 20 years. We have genuinely researched lemon laws it’s so bad. The windshield wipers hit each other and broke, the windshield stress fractured for no reason, the camera was full of water when we drove it off the lot, the side fender fell off on a country road 2 weeks after that… I could go on for ages.
I think the earlier models when Elon was less of an unhinged arrogant asshole doing his best to follow Kanye’s arc and wasn’t inserting himself into the design process randomly (make the steering wheel square, make a space truck no one needs, make it have stupid windshield wipers, etc.) were much better.
My family needed a loaner while our car was in for one of the many repairs and they gave us the previous model of our same car, made 2 years earlier, and it was much better. Other people I know with older models haven’t suffered from the same issues.
To me it seems that Elon’s leadership is now actively harming the company and making the cars worse, they have serious quality control issues which are leading to out of control repair and service expenses for the company, and are designing features based on what an out of touch billionaire manchild thinks would be neat instead of what any sane average consumer needs from a vehicle.
Things like the turn signal being on the wheel making signaling 2 turns back to back in opposite directions extremely difficult, making the horn a tiny off center button with no ability to feel so you have to take your eyes off the road to find it, glove boxes that won’t open unless you navigate to the right submenu of a terrible ui, gullwing doors that don’t open all the way reliably, a steering wheel that isn’t round and makes driving less comfortable, the deep flaws in optical only self driving, a work truck that can’t actually accomplish work, etc. are all glaring issues which should become clear in user testing, but as the famous “bulletproof” window smashing demo indicated: Tesla either doesn’t do adequate or even baseline testing, or (as I believe) Elon is just too arrogant to listen to the smart people around him who might point out those issues and has created an echo chamber of yes men afraid to point out obvious problems
Agreed. His time has passed. My issue was the paint fell off in the car wash. Otherwise it’s been a nice car.
I’ve heard some of the new design choices are questionable. Gears being moved to the screen or something of that nature. The yoke instead of the wheel.
Why id like to see less of him at Tesla. Let him go play on x and let someone fix Tesla. I think his antics are scaring buyers off.
Ironic to have someone named after a cyberpunk book simp so hard for a megacorp. Yuck.
I am doing no such thing. I like my car. It’s a good car. All you tears won’t change it’s a good car
I work on Tesla’s. They are not great cars.
Well that puts you in a minority who feels that way. Good for you.
If we assume @Marcumas@lemmy.world isn’t lying then you’re in minority as an owner of Tesla as compared to someone who has worked on Teslas.
That’s make zero sense. The majority of Tesla owners are happy with their car and would buy again. The higher rates for EV. So try again
You’ve been already told why that data is biased because of cult of Tesla, much like cult of Apple.
Uh huh. Doesn’t change 70% would buy again. The highest of any EV.
Ah yes, my passion too is a dumpster fire. Love the smell!
rofl as if he was ever good for Tesla… Outside of strongarming the few government contracts, he’s been an overtly negative impact onvthe brand and now everyone laughs at Teslas instead of viewing them like the iphone of electric cars.
… but you go off about how he’s good for ANY company…
They kinda are the iPhone of electric cars.
Twenty years from now idiots will be telling me ‘I know you think they’re overpriced and locked down but my apps carry over and I just don’t have the time to learn something new!’
Yea but normies still think iphones are decent, for the most part. Now even Tesla owners admit they’re shit.
That’s quite a big difference when it comes to the health of a company.
Sadly it’s only our bubble where we see tesla owners hate on them, normies posting on Facebook and tiktok still drool over them simply as a symbol of wealth.