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Why is a vehicle with 1000HP and 0-60 in 2 seconds street legal.
That sounds like it would be fun to go to a race track and race in a controlled environment, but when is that ever needed in a city?
Even worse, I assume these cars are mainly bought by people without fast car experience. It's a disaster waiting to happen.
And why the hell would you give this amount of horsepower to a barely functioning self driving car? It just doesn't make sense to me.
That's not really the issue, the slap dash construction and safety issues are the issue.
They also likely aren't paying for or actuallygetting these vanity products because plaids are notoriously behind in production and it's not terribly unlikely that you receive it and it immediately has to go back because of some critical production flaw/error.
As a pedestrian I am very concerned about how fast and heavy these vehicles are. People drive recklessly with them, blasting through intersections with people crossing. There is zero reason for a vehicle designed for a city to ever need to be this powerful.
And I also agree with you on the quality of build and lack of safety testing, especially on the cyber truck. Drivers can’t see anything and those are unsafe for everyone in them and around them.