Sort of. I think more specifically he is pushing candidates and actions that directly attack groups of people and using his wealth to do so. So why continue to fund someone who is using that money to attack you?

If you're in the US, it is hard to engage with this comment as he has inserted himself directly into the fiercest debates and drama in our country.

If you're outside the US, take your pick of news sources and search his name.

What an odd way to form a question. You seem to already be doubting the answer before it’s been sent to you.

The Hitler salutes and the endorsement of Trump were the final straws. The scuba diver thing and the incessant false promises laid the groundwork. He’s left the tribe of reasonable people. So yes, not in my tribe. He’s funded some cool work, but that only buys so much goodwill.

For me it was that time he paid a quarter million dollars to have a woman shut up about being offered a horse in exchange for sex while exposing himself

It's been pretty easy to hate him since that whole bit with the kids stuck in a cave and him calling the hero "pedo guy".

Then there's the long list of lies, like the predictions around self driving [0] and going to Mars [1].

And then you get to his decision to enter the political realm, take a chainsaw to government agencies without care or reason as to how they operate or what they actually do, and use his influence to self-deal.

He's a corrupt asshole. If he did these same things under a different party affiliation, he'd still be a corrupt asshole.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_predictions_for_autono...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/dhi6l6/spacex...

You don't understand polarized political tension/fighting? What kind of answer are you expecting? Yes, people with polarized political beliefs don't like each other. is this something you learned today?

Why in the world would I buy an electric car from the guy who spent more money than I'll ever make in my life to fund the candidate most vocal about killing off electric cars? If Ben and Jerry started stumping for a candidate trying to ban ice cream I also wouldn't buy Ben & Jerry's. Seems like common sense to me.

The hate is because Elon is literally a Nazi. And no, Nazi's are not part of my "tribe".

> Then LIDAR was disabled/removed.

Radar, not lidar. Tesla cars never had lidar.

>I remember when the "Tesla source code" leaked and I was a decent programmer, so I was curious and looked through some of the posted code... I have never sat in a moving Tesla vehicle since that day. Even if that code never drove a mile, the fact someone writing code for them saved it somewhere as progress scared me.

Have you looked at other car manufacturers' source code? AFAIK Toyota's source code got scrutinized as a result of the unintended acceleration lawsuits, and it was also criticized for sloppy coding.

edit: https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/pubs/koopman14_toyota_ua_...

I remember an old twitter thread that purported to be stories from a programmer just out of their NDA, lots of juicy tidbits about just SSHing into cars to fix bugs.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1032939617404645376

It's just a bundle of bad decisions and unfortunate compromises.

The uniwiper. The wheel-supporting bolts made for a much lighter vehicle. The glued on cantrails. The glue-installed light bar. The snow-collecting headlight shelf. The frequently jamming tonneau cover. The panel gaps. The sharp edges. The gear selector that likes to fall down from the ceiling. The weird discolorations and scuff marks the bed often has on delivery. The shitty cupholders.

People paid $100k for this. It's criminally bad at that price.

I agree with everything you've written. The required engineering was just too ambitious.

I ordered one on announcement day (11/21/2019). Yeah, I thought it was ugly, but the main selling point for me was its promised ability to go 500 miles on a single charge. (Apparently Musk has a habit of making promises he cannot keep.)

I really wanted that 500 mile range. My two homes are 300 miles apart, and I don't want to waste my time at a charging station while traveling between them. I also liked the idea of using the truck as a power-wall for my (4kW) solar plant.

I cancelled my order and got my $100 back (after inflation ate about 20% of it).

The Lucid Air (GT) offers similar range (512 miles), but it's not a truck, which I also really wanted. (I have enough cars already.) Also, the price of the Lucid Air was more than double that of the promised CT price. In the end, the CT price went up and the Lucid Air price went down, so they're now within about 10% of each other.