On 3/11/23 06:21, Cor van de Water via EV wrote:
I wonder if these were two colleagues that got their company vehicles
and accidentally received the wrong Tesla account for their App, so
that while the keys worked on their own car, their Apps worked on each
other's cars... Simple and not surprising, but you can get a lot of
attention writing a critical article about Tesla these days.
NOTE how the guy continued to use the other guy's car instead of
returning it immediately, that suggests that they were no strangers.
Also the other guy contacting him with a laid-back response asking if
he took their car, gives me the idea that they already knew each other
before all this.
There are some question marks surrounding this article.
I believe you are likely correct, Cor.
Considering the source, I did not pay much attention to the details.
But, you are correct in that Tesla owners can give online access to
their cars via multiple "driver" assignments. It used to be pretty
tedious for owners to give such privileges. Action from a human at Tesla
was required. But, Tesla responds to customer suggestions and now
assigning up to five drivers for each car can easily be done online and
without human intervention. The alternate drivers receive app access
only to the cars for which they have been authorized and through their
own Tesla app.
The following are suggestions for media topics that are not bias as was
this one under discussion.
1) FLASH! Tesla responds to customer suggestions by making it easy and
fast to assign car access to alternate drivers.
2) FLASH! Both owners and assigned drivers now have more routing
information available through the Tesla apps. Previous, remote viewers
of a car's locations did not know the target destination or locations of
nearby charging opportunities. With a software update, both those
information items are now available through the app.
3) FLASH! Tesla drivers making use of FSD have about 1/10 the
probability of being involved in a traffic accident compared to drivers
of other cars and compared also to Tesla drivers that chose not to use FSD.
There is a wealth of good Tesla news, continuously flowing, that can be
honestly reported. The only reason for pervasively negative Tesla media
coverage, I believe, is that no advertising dollars are flowing from
Tesla. Yet, we see little other than Tesla negative news.
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