I had a Lotus Esprit with one of the flattest windshields known to man, and my installer had a hard time installing ClearPlex on it because that stuff is horrible to install on any car. They just flat out couldn't do it on my Lamborghini, which is only slightly more curved than the Lotus, so they gave up and gave me my money back.
The moral of this story is that using ClearPlex to make excuses for Tesla doing zero quality control and buying and installing crappy windshields on $100K cars is absolutely ridiculous.
I am sure Tesla gets a big discount for every distorted windshield they purposely buy from their lowest-bidder manufacturer. If you do some research, you'll learn that distorted glass is from poor manufacturing techniques and there are even automated systems for performing quality control on windshields to reject ones with distortion. Tesla has zero excuses for this nonsense. Zero.
I can't count how many cars I have driven in the last 43 years from the best to the worst manufacturers, and in many different countries, and I have never come across any car that has noticeable distortion right in front of the driver's and/or passenger's view. I have driven cars (e.g. Porsche 911) that have distortion when you look across the windshield, but never straight ahead. When it's straight ahead, it's complete garbage.
