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Tesla’s secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints (www.reuters.com)
submitted 1 year ago by ghariksforge to c/[email protected]
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From the article: "About a decade ago, Tesla rigged the dashboard readouts in its electric cars to provide “rosy” projections of how far owners can drive before needing to recharge, a source told Reuters. The automaker last year became so inundated with driving-range complaints that it created a special team to cancel owners’ service appointments."

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I can't be the only one who read this and wondered what problems Teslas were causing to golf courses.

[–] Toto 1 points 1 year ago

LOL Not me

[–] ghariksforge 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

why? I don't get it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

In golf you start a long way from the hole, so when you first start a hole you're probably not trying to make it exactly, you're just trying to get the ball to go a long way to get near the hole. That's known as a drive. A driving range is a place to practice doing that.