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Good thing we have the CFPB to register and punish companies for shady practices like th...oh, nevermind.

In the past, Tesla lawyers even initiated lawsuits against customers who dared to criticize the quality of their cars or services. Such cases are documented and therefore not fake news. Last week, moreover, DOGE dismantled the department responsible for safety control and approval of new cars entering the market. Tesla experienced too many problems with this department in the past and now, through DOGE, took the opportunity to simply dismantle it. Moral of the story... buy a Tesla, a “safe” decision.

It's far more likely that the odometer in Teslas are just poor quality crap like the rest of the car.

The speedometer is also predictive.

"Tesla commits fraud to void warranties."

There FTFY.

odometer += sensor * this_is_just_for_debugging_i_promise(odometer);

Changing your tire sizing only changes the speedo and odo a few percent. You can usually just ignore it unless you're making drastic changes.

Just literal fraud

That's 70 miles a day, for anyone who doesn't want to do the math. I don't know where Hinton lives, but that's almost two laps around all of the highways surrounding the city I live in. That's 2 hours of driving on surface roads, not including stop lights and stop signs.

I wonder how much money Tesla has saved by breaking the law this way?

For this six-month period, Hinton says his Model Y odometer gained 13,228 miles (21,288 km). By comparison, averages of his three previous vehicles showed that with the same commute, he was only driving 6,086 miles (9,794 km) per 6 months.

That's 2x. Seems too obvious to be happening on all teslas

Add this to the pile of the rest of the illegal things billionaire Musk does simply because he can

You can't change the tire size on a Model Y very much because of the weird suspension design.

A odometer is a smell sensor, no?

You mean the guy that thinks we live in a simulation and he’s the player and we are all NPCs is cheating to give himself an advantage? I’m shocked.

That's sooo many individual felonies.

Yet another reason for Elon to wreck all the agencies investigating him.

Should be super easy to prove too... Take an assortment of Teslas to a 1 mile stretch of road, drive it up and down 20 times, measure the mileage before and after.

Really needs to back this up with some corroborating evidence like Google maps location timeline or something. I don’t trust Tesla, but I also know when I switched to EV I started making excuses to drive everywhere. Practically free miles and great acceleration made driving a joy again. Also my wife and I would often swap vehicles if she had some errand across town to save on gas. Combined that out way more miles in my EV than I had been putting on the previous gas car.

If all this guy did is commute, then he likely has a case, but I really question that.

Well I'm curious to find out what discovery will show.

Why is proprietary in devices we purchase bad? This right here. We are connected to the internet 24/7. Companies hiding what they control and what they collect, which is bad.

Has anyone compared it to a GPS?

Feels like they should be able to view the software and hardware controlling the odometer, and if it's doing anything suspicious.

I wonder if they'll actually do anything if they find Tesla is doing fraud. Feel like everyone who OK'd the decision should be barred from working in the industry for life, and made to forfeit everything they gained while doing the fraud.

While I'm making magical wishes, I'd also like Musk and all of his followers to choke to death.

It is weird that he probably saw Danny DeVito rolling back the odometers in Matilda while in a K hole and misconstrued the whole situation. That scene of Danny with the drill taking thousands of miles off an old beater probably seemed like a jackpot idea in that drug addled mind of his.

Like they can't even be competent enough to hire a hitman to kill their whistleblowers. Boeing are just laughing at them.

Well, true, but tyres wouldn't make it a double distance, it's not that simple. The case isn't clear, if course, but the claim says that the odometer tried to reduce the range after it got out of the warranty period.

Not saying anything about the merit of the case, just the the claim itself sounds interesting and that if true, you can't wave it away with "you changed tyres".

Wow that's a scummy thing to do. Just like apple I will never buy a Tesla product.

Tesla? Muskrat? Engaged in fraud‽‽

Well I am just shocked, SHOCKED...well, not that shocked

It cannot possibly be legal to have the odometer show anything except actual miles traveled.