Imagine buying an extremely expensive luxury vehicle, whose features are completely at the whim of some thin skinned billionaire.
Just remotely turning on and off different things in your car depending on who pissed him off, or pandered to him, that week.
LOL. Teslas cars are, for the most part, not "expensive luxury vehicles". The brand as a whole is on par with Ford in terms of pricing. The air of luxury is yet another fallacy we cooked up in our heads with no evidence to support it; just like "Elon is a genius".
Firmware update: vehicle now blocked from all McDonald’s drive-thru’s after Elon spilled his coffee this morning. It was hot.
The lawsuit you're referring to is about a poor old woman who got second degree burns, took McD to court and won, all while being slandered by the media for being some litigation happy grifter. Just saying.
I am aware, yes. The injuries she got were pretty bad. The attorneys also successfully argued that McDonald’s coffee was substantially hotter than any other coffee and that the degrees of difference caused the need for skin grafts. Colder coffee would simply not have caused that severity of injury.
But, as we all know: that doesn’t make for good headlines. So ‘woman sues over hot coffee’ is what stuck.
And the whole "she spilled some mildly hot coffee and got dollar signs in her eyes" narrative was cooked up by McDonald's. They couldn't win in court, so they tried to shape the public narrative to portray the poor woman as seeking a payday.
In reality, she only initially wanted McDonald's to pay her medical bills. They could have made the entire thing go away for $20,000. Instead, McDonald's opted to spend likely millions not only on lawyers, but on a public relations campaign to defame this poor woman.
Not just very bad. Fucked up her vajayjay bad.
I know this because someone reminds everyone every single time this lawsuit gets mentioned in any context
They are just happy that Elon didn’t have a beef with Tesla’s breaks supplier.
Oh no, now what will I watch while autopilot launches me into the side of a truck?
I am sure you can still watch OAN
But I wanted to die to Moana :(
See the light as it shines on the sea It's blinding But no one knows, how deep it goes And it seems like it's calling out to me, so come find me And let me know What's beyond that line, will I cross that line
LET ME CROSS THAT LINE ELON YOU BASTARD
See the light as it shines
Did your granny say listen to your heart Be who you are on the inside I need three words to tear her argument apart Your granny lied! I'd rather be...
Shiny!! Like a treasure from a sunken pirate wreck Scrub the deck and make it look...
Shiny!! I will sparkle like a wealthy woman's neck Just a sec!
Banning driving on the phone while allowing iPads to be put im dashboards shows how fucking stupid our legislators really are.
Poor people can't afford Teslas so it's fine.
Ah yes, the famous cancel culture that the Right hates so much. I'm sure they'll turn on Elon for this.
They already aren't buying electric cars lol
The whole "Elon swings hard right while trying to sell electric cars" is crazy. It would be like me selling "roll coal" kits and deciding that my market had to be Progressives because I was going to insult everyone on the right.
Punishing your customers because Mickey Mouse made you cry. Just Elon Things!
If I was ever going to get a Tesla, this would convince me not to. It's bad enough when cars have built in features blocked by subscriptions like heated seats, or apps removed due to contract disputes like YouTube. But having your entire car at the whim of someone like this is wild. Imagine you can't use your GPS because you made a post he didn't like.
Also, is this legal? It kinda feels like extortion at least. Maybe false advertisement if it was an advertised feature.
Also, is this legal?
Legal? Defintely: it's at most a civil disagreement between corporate-preople. If it were anyone other than Elon, I'd be sure that the contracts included some kind of termination clause that lets Tesla do this, possibly by still paying Disney+, possibly by paying Disney a termination fee. Because it's Elon, I'd say there's probably a lawsuit incoming, just as soon as Disney Legal's printers finish the gold leaf trim on 1000 page filing.
I think they’re looking for more a consumer perspective. Disney will probably sue for a breach of contract, but I also wouldn’t be surprised if they somehow ended up signing a TOS that allows Tesla to make changes whenever they want. From a consumer perspective, definitely legal to just remove an app. False advertising? Nah, when you buy the car/use the infotainment center, you’re agreeing to a TOS that requires you give your first born to the gigafactory they built.
Seriously though, it’s very standard practice that a TOS includes language that the service can change in quality at any given time with no warning.
Hold the fuck up, they've got televisions in cars?
And we're puzzled about why Tesla owners crash more than everyone else?
Mystery fucking solved, boys.
It's only accessible while parked.
And elon's current mood.
Anyone else think it's odd that vehicles have tv services in them?
This guys skin is so thin it’s translucent.
Yeah! That’ll teach Disney! You show’em Elon!
Deny Disney of about 100 subscribers. Gosh.
I would say 100 is optimistic. I think 0 might be a very reasonable number.
this is the problem with being a simple customer of one of this asshole's businesses.. you are now part of his smelly little ideological campaign, whether you like it or not..
It was always evident since the beginning of Model S, that Tesla maintained full control of the car at all times. You never really own a Tesla.
We found that out many years ago, and already before Musk behaved clearly crazy as he does now, we decided we would never buy a Tesla under those terms.
Remember when he turned a Tesla off, because the owner gave it a bad customer review?
Today Tesla is not exactly known for good service:
https://www.trustpilot.com/review/tesla.com
This was also so predictable, turning off features when the car is resold:
https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/6/21127243/tesla-model-s-autopilot-disabled-remotely-used-car-update
What a thin-skinned wanker
as long as Musk is hurting customers on purpose for his personal vedettas I will laugh at his claims of making the earth a better place.
the billionaire-mindset is toxicity
As a Tesla model 3 owner, musk scares me on his lunatic whims that he could just fuck my car over. Only reason I got a Tesla was because it is one of the top EVs. Love my Tesla but hate musk. The company would be so much better without that deranged sad little man.
A classic petty oligarch tantrum.
I'm sure the Tesla shareholders will be so pleased with this change. Rivian won't even need to make a decent R2 to have customers move over, Elon continues to keep screwing things up. He needs to stop and take a back seat on everything, mans an idiot when it comes to most changes/ideas
I just received a Tesla software update and Disney+ still works.
So, have conservatives started buying his cars en masse yet because of these shenanigans?
Oh no, anyway.
Legit question. Are Tesla OS hackable yet? I would love to have full control over my car.
I was thinking it was weird to watch Disney while driving, but I guess people who can afford an unused car can afford to have kids while keeping them both fed and entertained.
Of course, the other advertisers are all going back to Twitter.
This is a soap opera for billionaire jock sniffers.
Can you imagine trying to explain this headline to someone from say, 1970? They’d have a stroke.
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