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Love Tesla or hate Tesla. Their engineering chops are unmatched. Be it hardware, software or manufacturing engineering.

You almost made me spill my coffee.

Tesla still CANNOT get their auto wipers to work correctly. This has been a feature on a Mazda 3 I had in 2007 and it worked flawlessly.

Fwiw my wipers work fine. There were a couple patches where “auto” was a bit eager to engage but that’s been solved for years.

There are also 3 “non-auto” settings that work just like any other car.

Idk what to tell you.

I was interested in buying model Y. Rented a 2022. Wipers came on at dawn with 0 rain/snow. The next day wipers were not coming on during a snow storm.

Quick search showed that this is a common complaint among owners.

"Normal" car has wiper settings in the stalk. I don't want to crash trying to change wiper settings in the rain.

I mean, most Tesla engineering hires are thankfully smarter than their management - not that they don't have some great competition out there though (Merc, Porsche, etc.)

I think a lot of this stuff boils down to Elon Musk being absolutely ruthlessly uncompromising in his hiring and technology vision and management.

His management style may not be agreeable to people and he gets criticized for that a lot obviously. But the technical vision that he drives at Tesla, SpaceX, and his other companies are undeniable what makes these companies so valuable.

And it's exactly where his competitor's performance is less than stellar. Particularly at the companies you mention.

I notice there is a company missing from this list where Musk has been stepping on rakes left, right & center.

let the man hold his bags

Do you mean Twitter? Not his finest moment in terms of management style, I agree. But in terms of taking that absolute train wreck of a company and turning it around from being deeply unprofitable (literally burning billions) to where it at least stands a chance of surviving as a company with a realistic shot of being profitable in the space of a few months is maybe something Elon Musk doesn't get a lot of credit for. Was it ugly? Unorthodox? Obnoxious? Yes to all of that and then some. But maybe not as ugly as a full blown bankruptcy would have been. And also effective even maybe.

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