sillydriver
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So I signed up for plaid (no plus back then) on battery day. Company shifted my order to plus when that car was announced without asking whether I wanted to, where that car then got delayed for the better part of a year, but then I was glad to sit with the order because of the range. Now they cancel the car. I'm not going to take the available regular plaid anytime soon (no matter how much they don't want to pooch the quarter) because I'm not going to be an early adopter (guinea pig) for the removal of all the stalks my muscle memory knows how to use plus the addition of a yoke wheel of questionable safety. Combined with the way they run service (where I've almost always left the service center with more things broken than repaired) this is the least customer-focused company I have ever dealt with. This train is off the rails. Fortunately for me there are now enticing offerings from Porsche, Mercedes and Audi. Have you looked at the augmented reality heads-up display for the EQS? Too bad Tesla doesn't have the technological skill to offer something like it while they waste their time on an FSD system that will always require hands on the wheel to deal with disengagements and prevent crashes. Do you know that Mercedes and the EQS are about to roll out a hands-off level 3 highway system in Germany? Too bad Tesla can't figure that out. Admittedly these German cars are not as fast as Tesla's cars, but if this rant gets me blacklisted by the minions of the egomaniac in charge, I at least have the option of choosing a fast high-end Lucid. The key truth is that Tesla is no longer the only game in town in electric cars. If I still ran the hedge fund I had before I retired, I would act on that fact when trading opened Monday.
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