Tesla is basically selling a "CAAS" (Car As A Service). More and more (Tech) companies try to lock down their products and protect the customer from himself. It's a worrying pattern. How can that be the ideal system?
As the article notes, they really could make it a service by leasing the cars like other electric cars have been. It's the model where they are supposedly selling the cars, but the cars effectively remain their property, that is particularly troubling.
If you leased the car for 8 years and then returned it, that wouldn't be so bad, but most people wouldn't want to pay the full retail price of a car only to have it potentially become a paperweight after 8 years.
resoluteteeth|10 years ago
If you leased the car for 8 years and then returned it, that wouldn't be so bad, but most people wouldn't want to pay the full retail price of a car only to have it potentially become a paperweight after 8 years.