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Tesla's "Predictive" Odometers Had 9+ Drivers Complaining of Inaccuracy Before Lawsuit. We Even Found Video! (fuelarc.com)
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A Tesla influencer randomly caught his odometer double-counting mileage on video. Wild.

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[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 171 points 4 days ago (14 children)

One of the drivers mentioned in this article has a youtube video showing his odometer going from 124,999 to 125,001, completely skipping 125,000. One of the comments asks him to reach out to the law firm handling the class action lawsuit, but the owner replies with:

Happy to help if you're interested in paying a consultation fee for my time-- but otherwise these actions only enrich the law firms and I'm not volunteering to do that.

This mindset is so frustrating. Class action lawsuits are legit, they hold companies accountable and they pay out cash to people. To say that they only enrich law firms is not just wrong, but I think actually harmful to repeat like he has, especially in the great age of enshittification where everything tries to force binding arbitration agreements into every contract and agreement.

[–] GoodOleAmerika@lemmy.world 20 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Well if the law firm pay 20 cents check after making millions, what's the point.

[–] lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 50 points 4 days ago

The point is that the company being sued has to pay those millions in the first place. The law firm does pay itself rather well for that work, but I'd consider class actions to be one of the more defensible legal actions.

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I got like $50 from an Apple settlement a month or two ago

[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 days ago

In 2012? 2013? Not sure exactly when, but i got two 4 packs of red bull because it does in fact, not, give you wings.

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