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My Tesla still phantom brakes. And Tesla has been trying to solve it for, what 10 years ? My rain sensor also barely works. I have seen enough FSD videos and all the scary things it does. There is no way it will be ready to solve the last 1% in the next 10 years

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I rode with my uncle in his new Tesla car in rural Pennsylvania this winter. Clear weather, daylight, only a few other cars on the road. In a 10 mile trip the automatic emergency breaking threatened to kick in with blaring alarms 5-6 times: whenever an oncoming car approached us in the other lane, and over hills where it apparently thought we were driving off a cliff. I thought it would do better than that, given how much it's touted as so good.

Tesla fans remind me of Linux fans. "It can definitely 100% do this thing... if you don't mind x, y, and z. Also you need to do a. And b. Some sometimes c if a does j. Also it doesn't work on Tuesday. But that doesn't matter because you shouldn't need to use your car on Tuesday anyway."

I dig the commitment and passion, but as a consumer, I want the thing to work perfectly first time, every time. If it doesn't, I don't want it.

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