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To be clear, Elon Musk is the specific reason that people will not buy a Tesla. He's the kiss of death to the brand.
And Tesla wants to reward him?
He controls the company. This is him “rewarding” himself. He’s desperately trying to cash out before the stock price tumbles because he knows their valuation is way out of hand.
Idk it's pretty smart, but how is he going to sell $29b of Tesla without crashing Tesla?
Rich folk don't sell their stocks for daily spending money. They use the stock as collateral to take out loans at low rates then just pay the service fees on the loans. He's got to be leveraged to the tits in his current stocks so he's just giving himself more.
Yeah, but the issue with that is that when the Stock starts coming down the banks will come for their money, though I guess aa the saying goes if you owe the bank a 100 million the bank is in trouble not you
If you owe the bank $100 dollars, you have a problem. If you owe the bank $100 million dollars, the bank has a problem.
Gradually. But he can’t sell until he has possession of the shares, so that was the first step.
It's not just him. Teslas are some of the most unreliable, unsafe, and recalled vehicles in the industry. And the company has a long history of labor and safety violations. The rot may start at the top, but it sure doesn't end there.
https://www.drivedata.org/car-safety-ratings/d/make/Tesla
ok dude
About that....
The highest fatal accident rate among all car brands...
https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a62919131/tesla-has-highest-fatal-accident-rate-of-all-auto-brands-study/
So you have real world data vs crash test data. I know which one I would pay attention to.
In fairness this is largely based on how drivers use them, but we have seen people over trust the system and get into trouble. We also have seen autopilot make some serious mistakes. We also seem to have a cover up to shift blame back to the driver.
It is also noteworthy that Musk silenced the NHTSA investigation into Tesla safety. There was a lot of information and research towards how unsafe they are but it's all gone now.
The discrepancy is certainly interesting. I guess that would imply that Tesla drivers tend to drive like assholes.
Or the technology is not as robust as they market it to be and gets those drivers in trouble. Or maybe both.
Safety ratings made in lab conditions don't mean shit if the car is a safety nightmare in the real world.
Billionaires watch out for billionaires.
they have the class solidarity we lack