If those laws truly were passed to help consumers, wouldn’t they be repealed now that it is clear that they aren’t helping consumers?

“States passed the franchise laws decades ago to help the consumer.”
That’s BS. States passed franchise laws decades ago to protect dealerships from manufacturers that might swoop in and steal all their sales with a direct sale store in the same area after a dealership invested money already to promote the brand (which…

Dealers lobbied franchise laws decades ago to help dealers*

No, I think we’re on to something new here. Teslas may be to semi trucks what mustangs are to human beings.

At least they have credible news sources.

I was there. No movie playing when the car came to rest. Impossible for truck driver to hear anything from the cab of his truck. I was there for an hour and he was never near the car. There was no sound coming from the car and I was right There at he car a minute after it stopped.

Reckless - yet it drove 130 million miles without incident...it’s still the safest thing on the road. Based on this, humandrivers should’ve been banned ages ago.

It’s more of a misunderstanding than lying. What’s more important is the performance figures. They advertise 0-60 in 3.2 seconds for the P85D and 2.8 seconds for the P90DL, and it meets those figures just fine. Who cares how much horsepower it takes to produce those numbers? No way any owner deserves anything back if…