It also says that in order to remove the owner Tesla wanted registration, which can take a few weeks to get, not simply a bill of sale.
> What reads like a rejected Black Mirror episode is actually a hard lesson in how vulnerable the connected car ecosystem can be. Tesla vehicles are technological marvels, crisp, quiet, brilliantly engineered, but the reliance on cloud infrastructure and app control creates a glaring risk for secondhand buyers.
I need an AI to speed-read articles for me and tell me if they're complete slop or not, jeez.
How he bought it is in a comment:
>Bought it through a smaller sized dealer who got it off their dealer auction or whatever. Dealer said there's not much they can do, contact Tesla. Tesla said to send paperwork and due to circumstance they can transfer same day. Only have paper saying I bought it from dealer, but no registration or title currently, should have those next week. Guess I should have paid a little more and gone with a "big dealer" but I saved some $
https://old.reddit.com/r/TeslaLounge/comments/1kszl4j/how_to...
Edit: I suspect the linked article is indeed ai slop created after someone threw the original reddit posts at a llm and asked for a story about them. That weird aside about depreciation was inspired by some of the comments.
meepmorp•8mo ago
was it a repo or something?
shawn_w•8mo ago