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Elon Musk to the People of New Jersey

posted by janrinok on Monday March 17 2014, @11:02AM   Printer-friendly
from the the-law-versus-commonsense dept.

c0lo writes:

"Following the ban on Tesla direct sale in New Jersey, Elon Musk wrote a message to the people of New Jersey on the Tesla Motor's blog, explaining why they don't want to go through dealers and what will happen next with the stores in New Jersey. To put a context around the issue: Tesla soared in consumer satisfaction, while Ford dropped and it's likely to continue dropping.

The post:

  1. explains why Tesla don't want to sell through dealers, claiming a conflict of interest between selling and servicing gasoline and electric cars.
  2. explains what will happen with their presence in New Jersey; the stores will be transformed into showrooms, with no info on price being offered, and servicing will not be impacted by the new regulation.
  3. tells people what they can do - buy online and receive the car delivered interstate or buy from across the river in Manhattan; They can also contact their representatives if they want back the right to buy directly from a store."
 
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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by lx on Monday March 17 2014, @03:19PM

    by lx (1915) on Monday March 17 2014, @03:19PM (#17641)

    I have noticed that in the US the letter of the law and the games played by lawyers are seen to be much more important than common sense and decency.

    For people like me out here in the rest of the world it's often difficult to relate to that mindset.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 17 2014, @05:12PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 17 2014, @05:12PM (#17703)

    In some places the Judges look down on such games - using "reasonable man", "spirit of the law" and other stuff to slap down people who try to be the equivalent of a 11 year old D&D player who has an extremely weird way of interpreting the rules.

    Maybe they've running low on "reasonable men" in the USA and hence run too low on reasonable Judges.

  • (Score: 2) by Sir Garlon on Monday March 17 2014, @08:11PM

    by Sir Garlon (1264) on Monday March 17 2014, @08:11PM (#17778)

    There is some sampling bias at work: people who use common sense and decency are less likely to go to court, and when they do, the ruling is less likely to be sensational or controversial.

    The US is a country where the worst we have to offer is on television and the Web every day. It's easy to see how the exceptional and the shocking can be perceived as typical. Speaking of common sense and decency, the lack of those in the media is largely to blame for a distorted impression of what America is really like.

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