Most Tesla fans take Elon Musk's words at face value. They believed him when he said the BEV maker would have 1 million robotaxis on the streets in 2020. They trusted him when he affirmed Teslas would become appreciating assets due to FSD. Jason Hughes already classified that as a "blatant cash grab scam," but the Tesla Hacker is now aiming at another Musk remark: that a Model S would work as a boat for short periods of time.
According to Hughes, that is just not true. He had to argue with a customer who showed up with an electric sedan with a catastrophic failure in the battery pack. The client did not associate driving through "a little bit of high water" for "a few seconds" with having his Model S present a "vehicle may not restart" type error and then die entirely several days later.
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