Tricking Out Tesla
Consumer Reports walks like those short shorts are too tight
We’ve had a Tesla Model 3 for quite awhile now. Mostly it’s my wife’s car, because she is a computer geek and they have a relationship from which I am politely excluded most of the time. I come around and they stop talking. When Consumer Reports first tried a Tesla, they were glowing. Best car ever.
And then they did something odd. They reversed course and began to criticize the car, and recently did something overtly hostile. They said the car is dangerous, which clearly does not comport with any evidence. By evidence I mean something which isn’t created by the seeker for reasons unknown. The entire value of Consumer Reports is objectivity. Without that they are worth nothing.
Elon Musk famously sold short shorts on his website to troll the Wall Street “experts” who bet his stock would crash and burn. Instead it skyrocketed, not because of Wall Street, but because of consumers, like us, who bet on Musk in the same way we bet on Steve Jobs. They are people who bring us products we really want to buy, and we have an interest in their survival and success. We paid a premium for the early edition of the dual motor long range M3 because that was the Model 3 Musk sold first. He needed the money, and we were willing to invest in him.
