[spwa4]

I think they mean grift or even fraud, since they were definitely meant to attract investment.

Now excuse me while I go check on where my 2016 full-self-driving Tesla car. It was supposed to pick me up 9 years ago, something must have happened.

[hshdhdhj4444]

I still don’t understand how they haven’t been sued for the hundreds of millions they took as a deposit for a new Roadster…8 years ago!

[woleium]

Well the government was in the process of doing so, but somehow he seems to have doge’d it.

[andsoitis]

> I still don’t understand how they haven’t been sued for the hundreds of millions they took as a deposit for a new Roadster…8 years ago!

Because you can cancel your reservation and get your deposited refunded. See terms at Tesla.com

[LtdJorge]

Same site as the OP has an article stating Tesla makes it difficult, and if you put 50k in 8 years ago and obtain 50k now, I think you lost a lot of money. I have no opinion on the process itself though, I don’t know enough about Tesla as I’m only interested in the engineering, just wanted to point out the inflation losses.

[locknitpicker]

> if you put 50k in 8 years ago and obtain 50k now, I think you lost a lot of money.

This is a textbook sunk cost fallacy.

[NoLinkToMe]

No it isn't. It's textbook time value of money, which is a real thing.

And if you don't think so, please give me $50k, I'll give you back $50.001 in 8 years, a dollar more! You'll come out ahead, right?

[idiotsecant]

I am curious - are you familiar with inflation?

[locknitpicker]

Are you familiar with the sunk cost fallacy?