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Warranty. Read the article.

Yes of course that kind of fraud is serious. If it can be shown that Tesla is screwing with odometers in this case, they will immediately face a massive class action lawsuit from current and former owners, and their stock will tank even more.

It affects routine maintenance, warranties, resale value, business taxes (based on the current value), and all sorts of other things. I think there is potential for other interesting legal issues, too. If Tesla is lying to the customers, then the customers are reporting false data to their insurance companies and state regulatory agencies. So there could be legal issues connecting to those groups as well.

One person sure, but then they found lawyers who almost certainly asked for more information. So maybe your explanation is not the most likely.

The plaintiff is using that as one piece evidence right now at the start of the case. Of course they can and will gather and present other evidence.

Under-reporting mileage is an issue because you won’t get the recommended oil checks at the right times, which will shorten your engine life. And it would be generally concerning to the owner, right? We really do assume the odometer is mostly accurate when we’re going on trips.

So I think people would be reporting it if it were happening, but they aren’t, so it’s probably not. Of course this is speculation.

No, it isn’t. Tesla’s past behavior shows that they would definitely try to do this, because they would make a lot of money. And if the odometers were “randomly” poor quality, why would we only see reports of mileage being mistakenly high? Where are the mistaken low reports? Haven’t seen any of those.

This is one case, right? If the judge finds against Tesla, everyone who had repairs occur within 10% or 20% of the warranty expiration date could be part of a class action suit, and probably that would be easy for them to win.

Right, but Tesla has had time to push new code to their cars. So we could get a negative result now and still have past shadiness.

Now now. There is a time to present that data, and that time is discovery, which has not yet begun.

I know you want to judge the case now, but the legal system insists that you wait until the proper time, when both sides are gathering evidence and sharing it with each other.

Except no, it’s really not. The golden rule of automatic translation is to let the reader do it when they want to.

That’s the entire point, right? Just use an instance that’s in a country that’s not closely allied with Turkey. Everyone knows that, right? Right?

Of course that’s not true. A single incident on a massive website like this is not going to force people who actually trusted Wikipedia before to stop trusting it in the future.

Of course they are both lying. As with all capitalists, they will always use the law to seize greater power.

It is a small performance tweak if done once, right? But let’s suppose people worried about refactoring here would have checked to see what areas of their code are seeing heavy use.

You think most of the world works white collar jobs and goes to church on Sunday? Jesus.

The picture contradicts the claim, lol.

You got there first. Of course they will lie and say everyone is alive. Why would they ever consider not doing that? … Unless a judge orders a return trip. Then the prisoner is guaranteed to have passed away last month, tragically.

Correlation is not causation. This is Statistics 101… I can point to other things that are correlated with the rise in the far right. For example, centralization, the increase in monopolies, the number of years since World War II, the average temperature of the earth, the number of years into the new millennium.

Anyway, when I read your comment on the whole what I actually see is that your concerned that social media is too centralized and therefore ripe for abuse. That’s vastly different from saying that social media itself is inherently going to be abused.

No, it’s not normal. Almost no internet companies around the world try to do anything similar to what Meta did and does. Even if you focus on social media companies, I believe that only a small minority try to do that kind of thing.

For example, here we are on social media. Do you see any targeted advertising? Is it being done by the Lemmy instance? And how many instances are there? Then we could look at Mastodon, or discussion forums, or comment boards, or you name it. Of course you would expect some targeted advertising, like you might find computer advertisements if you’re on a computer tech forum, but that’s different from targeting users who are in a weak state of mind, precisely because it’s targeting their overtly expressed general interests and not their temporary vulnerabilities.

Finally, I think you should go back and read the article. You ranted about companies trying to shove things down your throats, but the article was about how to misuse targeted advertising.