You guys are all correct....
One really gets the sense one is driving a tablet with a car attached, not the other way around.
From day one, I've felt like a hostage to Tesla and that I don't really own the vehicle. Rather, it has always felt more as if I'm driving one of their fleet vehicles. They can just make wholesale, massive changes to the location, size, and style of critical gauges and controls and the owner/driver has zero say. If you don't accept the updates, Tesla's fine print says they can invalidate your warrantee.
The last holiday update before this one did things like that. An equivalent example would be if Audi snuck into my driveway in the middle of the night, pried open my Quattro, and decided to rip out my physical speedometer and replace with a tiny one relocated in to the left of a row of other, similarly sized but less important dials. You'd walk out to your car and be like "WTF?! Can they legally DO that?!"
Another example is the service: Tesla refused to sell me a handful of $1.90 frunk trim clips that *they* had broken when fixing factory mistakes after delivery. A service rep told me sorry, but their supply chain is "strictly managed" (this was just before the pandemic, BTW, so it wasn't related to pandemic supply chain issues). They made me setup a service appointment for weeks down the road. Not to mention that third party glass and tire places won't touch some (or all) Tesla models, depending on the situation....again, forcing you to accept Tesla's service schedules and also pay something like $1000 for a new Model Y windshield (which I did).
Again, the point is that Tesla makes you feel like *they* still own the vehicle, with the interface and controls subject to the whims of a bunch of young tablet programmers fresh out of college with no apparent experience with human-machine interaction or automotive safety. Elon Musks' arrogant, often-totally-incorrect technical pronouncements on social media add to the feeling.
I have to say, driving and owning the all-electric Volvo XC40 Recharge we also have in our driveway is an entirely different experience. As the range of competing EVs increases and Tesla's tax credits and incentives continue to expire, their market advantage is going to evaporate. Elon better pull his head out of his a** and stop acting like a maniac.
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