Keep in mind these things were advertised heavily as being able to drive through reasonably deep water as a standard feature.
It does this even in the wading mode if you attempt to do so.
So much water gets pooled into the frame you can hear it sloshing around.
Tesla “vehicles” are about as reliable as the machinations of a cartoon coyote.
I genuinely don’t understand how you fuck up the automobile so fucking bad. We’ve had close to a century of knowing that all of this “innovation” is stuff that doesn’t work.
Because they deliberately and specifically avoided all that stuff we learned the hard way because it was “old fashioned thinking.” Like steering wheel design. There were a lot of steering wheel designs before we settled on the ubiquitous one we all use, and quite a few of the designers of those earlier ones have biographies that end with “died during field testing.”
Musk ignored ALL of that accumulated knowledge, thinking he was very clever, and built a car-shaped object.
