On Oct 2, 2014, at 10:20 AM, Lee Hart via EV <[email protected]> wrote:
> But, the whole point of transferring a title is to officially change > ownership. It it mighty hard to get any kind of damages from an original > owner unless one can show that there was fraud or misrepresentation. And, in this case, in which Tesla can, at its own whim, disable or even destroy the vehicle with no input nor recourse from the purported owner, it's very arguable that there is, in fact, both misrepresentation and a failure to properly transfer full possession. When you buy an house, yes, you get it re-keyed right away...but, if the original owner fails to give you all the keys and then uses one to gain illicit access, the fecal matter is going to hit the impeller with full force. Tesla should separate their post-sale services from the sale of the vehicle itself, ideally with an hardware switch of some kind. There are, of course, theft and similar security concerns, but it still should be possible for the legitimate owner to make it physically impossible for Tesla or anybody else to modify the vehicle, and for the vehicle to remain at least as functional as it did when it left the dealer's lot. And, if they're smart, they'll charge a nominal fee for the regular over-the-air update service, just to underscore the point, even if they offer discounts and rebates and the like such that nobody actually pays a dime. However, I predict it'll take a lawsuit and / or some bad PR or the like to get them to fix this literally fatal-to-the-car flaw in their product...and that's assuming they don't double down and buy a bunch of lawmakers in the mean time, which would be _really_ bad for the rest of us.... 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/e997c39f/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)
