https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-mu...
A friend of mine bought a brand new Model S, and within weeks experienced the squeaking noise the article talks about. Tesla took months to sort it out, after making excuse after excuse.
He never bought another one.
An unbiased news source would provide some context for comparison, but Reuters is on an anti-Musk crusade (they even mention a few other hit pieces they've written in that article).
Fortunately other people here have provided some context:
"In documents that Jeep provided to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the automaker [Jeep] says that it is aware of 21 instances of [rear coil] springs detaching"
https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-recalls-defects/jee...
"Honda said in documents filed to NHTSA that it has 61 customer complaints in the U.S. [of rear trailing arms detaching]"
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/honda-crv-recall-2023-rust-...
"Toyota warned owners of BZ4X electric SUVs to stop driving them because the wheels might fall off."
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/24/cars/toyota-bz4x-tundra-recal...
That Reuters article could have been written about any automaker. They all have catastrophic failures from time to time and they all have thousands of customer complaints out of millions of vehicles sold.
> All the upside-down incentives and warped prerogatives [sic] of the startup world are on display here
Interesting post to see on a site sponsored by Y Combinator.
Trouble is, as an approach it works a lot better with CRUD apps than with cars.
Is Tesla even still a startup? They're 20 years old, the world's most valuable automaker, publicly traded and part of the S&P. Seems like a cheap jab they needed to add something to the Reuters article.
(Strictly speaking a random employee rather than the company itself, but “cars from [non-Tesla manufacturer] are only non-horribly-broken because they’re 100 years old” seems to be an _extremely_ common line taken.)
Quite different from water running into the car in heavy rain or in a car wash.
That being said, despite being leagues ahead of Tesla, or US brands in general, German premium car build quality is not what theor reputation would make people think.
Similar to the BMW cupholders that couldn't get wet without damaging electrical parts.
https://www.courthousenews.com/bmw-cupholders-not-designed-t...
So again, do those faulty designs mean that BMW is a startup?
And yes, BMW having those issues is embarrasing as well.