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Comment by throw457 | Hacker News Reader

Drive fast and deliver broken things.

Better than my Lincoln, that uses complete Ford parts that should have decades of QA testing behind them, but still shipped out with completely defective airbags I wasn’t alerted to until years down the line. Also every single one of the door handles broke internally, which was apparently common on these models.

Far be it for me to defend Ford's quality, but an airbag recall certainly isn't comparable to this. It was Takata's fault and affected a long list of OEMs, including Tesla.

The real problem here is Tesla refusing to fix the product they delivered defective and which apparently won't even pass inspection in Germany. Issues happen, and most companies fix them rather than deal with the bad press.

I'm not sure how you consider one better than the other. Were your problems not covered as well?

I’m not particularly trying to say one is better than the other

I’m just tired of people ragging on Tesla, essentially a baby of a company - this coming from somebody who’s been fairly pissed about musk’s dumb antics the past few years - when companies that are literally a century old are unable to guarantee quality off the line.

Somebody else mentioned the airbag manufacturer - no, it is not the airbag manufacturer who had an automobile come off the line for sale to me. It was Ford. A century something old company, who in this age, should never have let something like this happen.

& yes - Ford has been a pain in the fucking ass back when I was trying to get their various recalls taken care of. I think there were 6 on my car alone.

Public shareholders want more every year. No grow is a lower stock price. Eventually quality needs to suffer to maintain growth. Until it doesn't.

Full self driving is the biggest joke... if at least they would have called it self-driving... or half-self-driving

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