On Oct 2, 2014, at 7:14 AM, Haritech (Gmail) via EV <[email protected]> wrote:
> Trouble is you didn't own the car when it was disabled. Then the sale was fraudulent, whether intentionally so or otherwise. The buyer thought he was buying a salvageable car, not a pile of scrap metal. But, considering that it's Tesla, not the seller, who's responsible for turning what was, in fact, a salvageable car into a pile of scrap...most of us would consider that either theft or destruction of property. Morally, whether or not legally. Imagine the car has, instead of a regular glovebox, a safe...and that the entire wiring harness goes through this safe, and all the fuses are inside the safe. For safety reasons, the safe is designed to lock itself when an accelerometer detects a crash...but, though the manufacturer gave you the key to the front of the safe when you bought the car, they neglected to give you the key to the back of the safe that unlocks it after a crash. They still have that key, but they won't give it to you, even though you ostensibly own the car. Ethical companies do not pull these sorts of shenanigans. Tesla is well within its rights to publicly disclaim responsibility for what this guy does with the car he's bought in known-damaged condition from a third party. They don't have -- or, at least, _shouldn't_ have -- the right to hinder him doing what he wants with the car, and that includes maintaining control of parts of the car that they have no right keeping out of the control of all their other owners. ...because, really: that's what this is all about. It's now apparent that Tesla can turn <i>any</i> of their cars into scrap metal just by pressing a button, and if you don't like the fact that that's what they've done, your only recourse is to sue one of the richest men on the planet. "Good luck with that," as they say. b& -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 801 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20141002/e087bcef/attachment.pgp> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
