You have a link to equivalent worries about Mazda or Audi or someone? I mean... it's not a persecution complex if there's actual persecution. No one writes articles about tape on Fords. Ever.
No, because Tesla is in the spotlight. It's meant more good and bad press than they'd otherwise have, the majority of which being overwhelming praise.
Stop looking a gift horse in the mouth.
Anyway, your question wasn't would the media write about it, it was would you react the same way. An accusation of personal bias, which gets handed out like candy on Tesla threads. It's toxic.
Sadly, for you, the article does not say Tesla used tape in-lieu of heat-shrink tubing or even mention heat-shrink at all. It simply states a fact that "factory tape is high-quality and looks as if it’s shrink-wrapped on a part" to provide contrast to the product Tesla was using.
The usage of the tape, as suggested by the article, wasn't for electrical insulation or wiring protection.
> Weird, I saw people elsewhere in the comments mention heatshrink tubing being substituted with electrical tape.
Right, because like I said above, the prevailing paradigm is to skewer Tesla by extrapolating from any available datapoint. So people take "tape" and invent reasons for the tape that don't appear in the article. Some of this isn't the posters' fault, because the article is sensationalized and is clearly trying to lead you to a conclusion about "tape" that it can't make with the simple facts presented.
Which is a media behavior that is, in the auto industry as of right now, almost exclusive to Tesla. No one runs dirt stories about tape on Fords, not because there isn't any (I mean, who knows, but none of would be shocked to read about it) but because even if there was, no one would care.
It's particularly weird, because the people who're talking about Tesla using tape are the ones saying "it's heat shrink tape, guys, nothing to see here".
Whereas the people reporting the tape are saying it's standard electrical tape, used to hold cracked pieces of plastic together.
> The admission of willful ignorance here is rather astounding.
> then again I'm ignorant to the dress code or actual temperature of a typical automotive factory
That seems a bit ironic considering you said the above right after suggesting that the tent is actually better than the factory for the purpose.
Anyway, the tape not being used for electrical insulation or wiring protection but rather for structural integrity of certain parts that cracked still doesn't bode well.
> That seems a bit ironic considering you said the above right after suggesting that the tent is actually better than the factory for the purpose.
When taken out of context, yes.
The factory comment I was responding to was questioning why factory workers would request to work in the tent. I was suggesting that it might be due to the pleasant climate in which the tent is located. I then acknowledged my ignorance to typical working conditions and how they might factor into that equation.
This thread revolves around a someone admonishing Tesla by comparing one fiction to another fiction at a competitor. Then, when the fiction is pointed out, the commentator again establishes they didn't read the article and then suggest we should still admonish Tesla for unspecified reasons.
