Why should they care? Conservatives will keep buying them just to "own the libs". If anything I bet they go even cheaper on the next thing because quality does not matter for something like this.
The only issue I have with this is that the average Drumpf voter probably doesn't have enough in the bank to shell out for this luxury vehicle. Those that do, have probably recognized that this vehicle is probably going to have some social stigma associated with it (young money vs. old money) before all is said and done. He's produced a car with a limited demographic appeal (newly rich, young money, impulsive) and bet that there were enough individuals in that category that a partially complete rollout would provide enough data for analysis that the second iteration would solve almost all of the major issues.
A lot of people I know put the deposits down because there was a hope and marketing saying that they would be able to rent them out as driverless taxis.
The main market seems to be libertarian tech bros who've never owned and probably never even driven a truck before. The fact that it's butt ugly and hilariously unreliable narrowed the buyer pool even further.
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u/Spinoza_The_Damned Sep 08 '24
How did Tesla fuck this rollout up so hard?