How is it worth to lose the UK, AU and Japanese market with this move? I'm seeing a lot of Teslas in London, I don't see how eliminating the right-hand configuration is justifiable economically.<p>Yeah it might be a ball ache to design a car that supports both driving styles, but all brands with global reach have to deal with it.<p>The grabbing stick is equivalent to being told "fuck you for living in one of those countries, deal with it." Terrible idea.
Good. Fewer of these ugly, oversized cars (the model X) on British roads.<p>The damn things have fat arses and I hate driving behind them - they fall in to some kind of uncanny valley size wise.<p><a href="https://d.ibtimes.co.uk/en/full/1605256/tesla-model-x-model-s.jpg?w=736&f=58425bff7f3a73e2a0b5eb51e517b7c5" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://d.ibtimes.co.uk/en/full/1605256/tesla-model-x-model-...</a>
Too many people with more money than sense. You don't know what to do with your money if you actually buy a car that's the wrong way round because they can't be bothered to support your driving side anymore... I couldn't imagine accepting a compromise like this for a trivial item, yet alone a car.
The level of disrespect Tesla is showing with this move is just insane to me. “Fuck you for spending tens of thousands on our product. Here’s a stick.”
I didn’t realize it was legal to drive left hand drive cars in the UK. Isn’t that generally less safe? I’m really surprised a company this large would end support for the right hand drive configuration.
It's very confusing the way Fred uses one term to refer to two things.<p>If they are going to continue writing about cars they really need to clear up the difference between left/right hand drive and driving on the left/right of the road.
When Tesla cancels a long standing order, do they reimburse you or pay some fee?<p>At least if you reserve it and cancel as a consumer, you lose your deposit. Weird if they can do it with no financial consequences but not you.
What's with the word "force"? The tweet makes very clear there is no force, there are simply options and the customer can accept them or not.
I have to say I am really disappointed - from Tesla I would have expected more, like a robotic arm that can not only grab parking tickets, but also grab heavy take-out food bags, hand out cash, pay by card (incl. entering your PIN if needed), insert a key into a lock and turn it (in case your garage door isn't remote controlled) etc. etc.<p>... but I guess that would have negated the slim savings from throwing out the right hand drive option.<p>... and I fully expect there will be TikTok/Youtube videos appearing over the next weeks of people trying to do all of the above (and more) with this grabbing stick.
Things like this mean I just can't regard Tesla as a serious car company.<p>They're a company that mostly makes cars, sure, but they (and investors) clearly view themselves as something else.
It was the UK's top selling car. But I suspect that Tesla doesn't have the resources to maintain the necessary production infrastructure for the volume of cars produced.
As much as I think this is a dick move from Tesla, I find the term "force" here to be misused. Customers were given the option to cancel their order or accept the left hand drive version. If I had been given this choice i would, of course, have cancelled my order and vowed never to buy another musk product again. I can't understand why someone would go through with the purchase after having such a anti-customer trick played on them by Tesla.
Nobody gets what they want with that guy. Right hand drive: nope. Tweets about Tesla’s with no right hand drive: nope. This is somewhat ironic that some people’s inclination will be to complain about a Tesla issue on Twitter, how long before the conspiracy theorists put this all together?
Isnit legal to use right-hand cars on those countries? I assume it would be legal temporarily, like if you are a tourist or something, but not for citizens