Tesla thinks a grabbing stick is a good replacement for right-hand drive in the UK
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Order a Model S or Model X in the UK and you'll receive a left-hand drive car and a bonus grabbing stick.

Order a Model S or Model X in the UK and you’ll receive a left-hand drive car and a bonus grabbing stick.

@flyaway1359@lemmy.world
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Ngl this is quite hilarious

@Dad2DnA@lemmy.world
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31Y

To be fair, that looks like a bitchen grabber

@aldamar@lemmy.world
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Love this

Hold up… Why are they not making them with the proper configuration though? I used to work at Tesla’s Fremont plant and part of what I did required slightly different work depending on if the current thing on the line was supposed to be left or right-hand drive.

@Kanzar@lemmy.world
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Just not making them at all anymore. The few countries that are RHD aren’t big enough markets for them to bother making the S and X for them anymore. We here in AUS are stuck with just the 3 and Y now, and any existing S and X models.

It just doesn’t make sense not to make them when it literally was the same process to make a RHD as a LHD vehicle. It doesn’t cost extra money or use extra parts. It’s just “oh this part goes on this side instead of this side.”

If they stopped making them entirely, it’s more than likely out of spite than any other reason.

@Kanzar@lemmy.world
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I dunno, there’s retooling a factory as well as team training for QC, and surely some parts would differ as it would be mirrored.

@kat@lemmy.world
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I genuinely can’t tell if the headlines are satire these days

Funwayguy
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That basically sums up everything that comes out of the emerald baby’s fanciful brain farts. A walking joke that has gone on so long that the sad manchild has to do ever more expensive corporate stunts mixed with decade-old cringe humour to stay relevant. After all the shit he’s pulled lately, I’m not even surprised any more.

Seems like it’d be awkward and uncomfortable to steer with that thing but I guess you get used to it.

@jk47@lemmy.world
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It’s not just things like reaching for ticket machines, anyone who’s taken their car to a country on the other side of the road knows how disconcerting it is to drive. Oncoming traffic is now in the far side of your vehicle which just makes it less comfortable to drive. You get used to it of course, but it’s never the same as driving on the correct side. No RHD is an absolute deal breaker for many UK drivers in sure

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Try overtaking a bus on a country lane without being able to peek out from behind it.

@mystic@lemmy.world
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Tesla has plans to start production in India soon. I wonder how they’ll cope up in India which also predominantly has left hand drive.

@Shialac@lemmy.world
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Tesla is such a joke of a company lmao, cant understand why there are still people fanboying over it

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@BorkFart@lemmy.world
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Are they popular in Italy?

Holy shit, I thought it was a parody article.

Ready! Player 31
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Cool, guess I’ll buy a different EV then.

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