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by ck2 1869 days ago
Paying full price to beta test a car for free while they work out the bugs on the fly and hope they don't break more things seems like a really bad purchase idea?

Not that gas cars are much better but is the "happiness" that people don't have to go a dealer and the fix is magically downloaded? Or something more than that?

Personally it would freak me out that every single thing is tracked and saved and sent to who knows who, forever. People like to argue there's no such thing as privacy but oddly they still have shades on their windows.

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It's the whole package:

- Charge at home

- Remote app access to preheat/cool in your garage without the risk of exhaust killing you

- Extremely fun to drive

- Very quiet

- Autopilot

- Software updates (as noted, this can be a bad thing too, but mostly good)

- Very techy with many apps to connect to the car for stat tracking/automation flows

- No haggling with a car salesman. You pay what you pay online, that's it