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New Tesla accessory, probably not fake...
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https://www.carexpert.com.au/car-news/th...-in-the-uk
https://www.thedrive.com/news/tesla-gave...hand-drive
https://electrek.co/2023/06/30/tesla-giv...and-drive/

Tesla gives new owners in the UK a grabbing stick after forcing them to get left-hand-drive

Tesla has started to deliver new Model S and Model X vehicles in the UK with a grabbing stick after they forced buyers to get left-hand-drive vehicles.

Last month, we were surprised to see Tesla announce that they stopped producing new Model S and Model X vehicles in right-hand-drive configurations.

The automaker decided to stop selling Model S and Model X vehicles altogether in some smaller left-hand-drive markets, like Australia, Singapore, and Thailand, and started offering right-hand-drive vehicles in bigger markets, like in the UK.

This upset many buyers who saw their orders canceled. Some of them had been waiting for years since the Model S and Model X refresh was announced to get the new vehicles. They had been waiting to get the latest Plaid top-performance Tesla vehicles.

Now Tesla buyers in the UK who decided to go through with their purchases despite the change to left-hand-drive found that it comes with a gift called “The Reacher”...




Thought it was a joke, but it's been widely reported.
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#2
Yikes.

I think it's weird that the world never standardized on one side or the other.
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#3
AllGold wrote:
Yikes.

I think it's weird that the world never standardized on one side or the other.
Don’t get me started on Metric…
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cbelt3 wrote:
[quote=AllGold]
Yikes.

I think it's weird that the world never standardized on one side or the other.
Don’t get me started on Metric…
Well... the world did standardize on metric, it was just one kind-of big country that decided it was too special to do that.
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#5
Every time a Brit or an Aussie says, "You should use metric" I say "And you should drive on the correct side of the road."

But they're right, we should use metric.
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#6
AllGold wrote:
Yikes.

I think it's weird that the world never standardized on one side or the other.

It did, except for UK & Japan and a few smaller markets.
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Sam3 wrote:
[quote=cbelt3]
[quote=AllGold]
Yikes.

I think it's weird that the world never standardized on one side or the other.
Don’t get me started on Metric…
Well... the world did standardize on metric, it was just one kind-of big country that decided it was too special to do that.
And the US was on the path towards metrification until one certain president cancelled that.
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#8
Whitworth for the win!
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#9
For the record, the UK is NOT guilt-free. They still use miles per hour for highway speed limits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_speed...ed_Kingdom
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DeusxMac wrote:
For the record, the UK is NOT guilt-free. They still use miles per hour for highway speed limits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_speed...ed_Kingdom

Also, they measure beer in pints, not liters.
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