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Well, true, but tyres wouldn't make it a double distance, it's not that simple. The case isn't clear, if course, but the claim says that the odometer tried to reduce the range after it got out of the warranty period.
Not saying anything about the merit of the case, just the the claim itself sounds interesting and that if true, you can't wave it away with "you changed tyres".
Good thing we have the CFPB to register and punish companies for shady practices like th...oh, nevermind.
Wrong gutted regulator
Or intentionally?
odometer += sensor * this_is_just_for_debugging_i_promise(odometer);
In the past, Tesla lawyers even initiated lawsuits against customers who dared to criticize the quality of their cars or services. Such cases are documented and therefore not fake news. Last week, moreover, DOGE dismantled the department responsible for safety control and approval of new cars entering the market. Tesla experienced too many problems with this department in the past and now, through DOGE, took the opportunity to simply dismantle it. Moral of the story... buy a Tesla, a “safe” decision.
You can't change the tire size on a Model Y very much because of the weird suspension design.
Plus, to double the mileage registered by using different size tires, you'd have to put a roughly 10" tire on a Model Y.
Changing your tire sizing only changes the speedo and odo a few percent. You can usually just ignore it unless you're making drastic changes.
Yeah aeems a pretty useless edit for an obvious fact. Especially as in this case you would need tires half the circumference of the original to make sense.. Gotta be some tiny tires..
Edit, had it the wrong way around
Hey Siri how do I convert from inches to circumstance
A odometer is a smell sensor, no?
They don't install those in new cars, you need one made in the ol'factory.
How silly, it's obvious that would be an odormeter. An odometer is about something else entirely.
That's a smellometer!
Let's use the Smelloscope!
Well I'm curious to find out what discovery will show.
The speedometer is also predictive.
From Berlin to Warsaw in one tank.
You know this is fake cause it's not on garbage touchscreen
It's far more likely that the odometer in Teslas are just poor quality crap like the rest of the car.
We already know they knowingly lied about battery range, the capabilities of self driving, and a ton of other fraudulent practices. Tesla is doing it intentionally is more likely than poor build quality.
Odometers are one of the oldest consumer protection tools. If it's off, it's very illegal.
Yup, odometers were regulated specifically to protect consumers from widespread odometer fraud. Shit like companies requiring oil changes every 5k miles, and the odometer shows 5000 when it’s actually only 4000, so consumers pay for more service than they need. Or cases like this one, where a company is required to provide a warranty until the 50k odometer reading, and then fudges the odometer so it voids the warranty sooner than it should.
No, it isn't. Tesla's past behavior shows that they would definitely try to do this, because they would make a lot of money. And if the odometers were "randomly" poor quality, why would we only see reports of mileage being mistakenly high? Where are the mistaken low reports? Haven't seen any of those.
That's 70 miles a day, for anyone who doesn't want to do the math. I don't know where Hinton lives, but that's almost two laps around all of the highways surrounding the city I live in. That's 2 hours of driving on surface roads, not including stop lights and stop signs.
I wonder how much money Tesla has saved by breaking the law this way?
112 km a day, not a bad commute by Toronto standards - it’s one way for the Barrie to Toronto drivers
Wow that's a scummy thing to do. Just like apple I will never buy a Tesla product.
Apple’s odometers are fine.
Pedometers, you mean?
"Tesla commits fraud to void warranties."
There FTFY.
Add this to the pile of the rest of the illegal things billionaire Musk does simply because he can
Should be super easy to prove too... Take an assortment of Teslas to a 1 mile stretch of road, drive it up and down 20 times, measure the mileage before and after.
Right, but Tesla has had time to push new code to their cars. So we could get a negative result now and still have past shadiness.
If the courts cared for the rights of people they would subpoena code routinely
We can't be ruled by black boxes that serve people who hate us. It has to end
For this six-month period, Hinton says his Model Y odometer gained 13,228 miles (21,288 km). By comparison, averages of his three previous vehicles showed that with the same commute, he was only driving 6,086 miles (9,794 km) per 6 months.
That's 2x. Seems too obvious to be happening on all teslas
That's sooo many individual felonies.
Yet another reason for Elon to wreck all the agencies investigating him.
You mean the guy that thinks we live in a simulation and he’s the player and we are all NPCs is cheating to give himself an advantage? I’m shocked.
Really needs to back this up with some corroborating evidence like Google maps location timeline or something. I don’t trust Tesla, but I also know when I switched to EV I started making excuses to drive everywhere. Practically free miles and great acceleration made driving a joy again. Also my wife and I would often swap vehicles if she had some errand across town to save on gas. Combined that out way more miles in my EV than I had been putting on the previous gas car.
If all this guy did is commute, then he likely has a case, but I really question that.
Why is proprietary in devices we purchase bad? This right here. We are connected to the internet 24/7. Companies hiding what they control and what they collect, which is bad.