Thanks Mike. I guess my point was that the thread covers all those many areas and more... and if a significant number of owners participate in the suggested protest, it is likely they will show up for different reasons with different stories and will not come across as a unified group. Which will detract from (if not negate) the desired effect.
Agreed.
So, what's the simple story? The one that will elicit sympathy from an uninformed person, put pressure on Tesla if the press picks it up, and can be expressed in a simple sentence or two? I haven't heard it yet. As soon as I hear eMMC, I know it will lose an uniformed audience. How would I say it to a six year old?
I believe very little will relate to an uninformed Tesla owner unless it is fear-mongering, and even less will be relatable to a non-Tesla owner.
Despite what some still believe, or wish for, Tesla is no longer dependent on the evangelical direct influencers to sell its products. They simply have a superior product to their competitors and are benefiting from the new customers being by the hype through the time of purchase. This appears proven by the move to social media influencers and evangelical media outlets combined with removal of significant incentive referral program
nett: the simple story would like have to be “the reality of the hype and unfulfilled promises”. This could list all the “promises” via twitter, original articles and launches, etc. compared with the actual ownership experience. Although it would have to be objective, everyone would read it through their own reality distortion filter, so it will be polarizing,
I would hope the conclusion most would agree on would be: Tesla are an innovative company who is unafraid to break rules to get things done, they overpromise and though what they deliver is less than they promise it is still more than anyone else still.
Could Tesla do more to explain the gaps and issues? Absolutely.
Will they try? Empirically, yes.
Will they make everyone happy? Empirically, no.
Do they need to? No.
Is this frustrating and a little disheartening to have the hype bubble burst? yep.
Customers need to buy products on what they see now or understand that the aspirational future statements from Elon are with best intent and in an ideal world, with no higher priorities, would get more traction. They are NOT promises.
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I do believe that a bit more patience is called for. It is my opinion that Tesla has a good reason to delay it in order to complete the HW3 upgrades for all Model 3 and Raven Model S/X first, in order not to overburden the service centers with too much at one time.
FYI, the Model Y is the pin to burst this reality bubble. It is a tidal wave coming and as a very low 5 digital LR 3 owner, we still don’t have FSD computer upgrade yet, though I know I have my own reality distortion bubble here...
Of course the question Elon was answering in the last tweet was: "Also any update on upgrading mcu1/ap2.0 Model S to FSD computer?" So not about a MCU1 to MCU2 upgrade at all.
Although the word semantics are correct, I would be surprised if one could be achieved without the other. It’s been proven the upgrade can occur. Similar to battery upgrades, even when proven does not make this a reality,
All those tweets make me so sad. I think my car is due for EMMC failure in about a year, really would rather pay for a MCU2 out of warranty instead of refurbished MCU1
I would hope it’s an option too. The good news is that with less logging the time to failure is on a shallower curve, rather than based on data to date. Just keep aware of the symptoms, and understand Tesla won’t replace until catastrophic failure under warranty so far - arguments of using wear indicators to proactively address are moot at this point.