GEICO, the second-largest vehicle insurance underwriter in the US, has decided it will no longer cover Tesla Cybertrucks. The company is terminating current Cybertruck policies and says the truck “doesn’t meet our underwriting guidelines.”

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    843 months ago

    Class action lawsuits are gonna be a mother fucker

    Part of the purchase agreement of a Tesla agreeing to binding arbitration. This means no class action suit. You can opt out of this within the first 30 days, but you have to send a letter requesting it.

    How many Tesla owners do you think do that?

    • @[email protected]
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      503 months ago

      That assumes the court finds that enforceable. Usually they do, but a few times recently, they’ve said it’s not.

      • @[email protected]
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        543 months ago

        That’s one of the nice things about the law in Quebec. Binding arbitration clauses are illegal.

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            3 months ago

            *Je does

            “doivent” is third-person plural (they, not I)

            Oh, and I didn’t notice that autocorrect changed my French to English. Should be"dois" or, as you say, “devrais” for the conditional.

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        193 months ago

        I mean in trumps court of law musk can’t lose.

        If dumpy wins, for sure no class action.

        If dumpy loses, his Supreme Court will still side with the conservative side anyway, so probably still no class action.

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      243 months ago

      i don’t own a tesla, so if their cars injure me I can sue them*

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      143 months ago

      Steam recently removed their arbitration clause, largely because paying for a thousand arbitration cases is worse than dealing with a class action.

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        173 months ago

        I’ve heard that death by 1,000 arbitrations is a good way to make em regret it. Glad to see it’s true.

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        13 months ago

        Which is what Musk is looking at happening.

        Between cybertruck and twitter, dude’s gonna bankrupt himself.

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      43 months ago

      Wow, I never thought I’d find an actual good argument for keeping independent car dealers as middlemen instead of allowing first-party sales, but here we are.

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        13 months ago

        Can you connect the dots for me? Third party dealers always have idemnity? clauses anyways.

        • @[email protected]
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          13 months ago

          Presumably anything you’d agree to while buying from an independent dealer would be between you and the dealer, not you and the manufacturer, right? I don’t understand how the manufacturer would be a party to the transaction.

          (It might be that I’m naive about how modern car sales work.)

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            23 months ago

            I’m pretty clueless too, but to me your assertion doesn’t hold up to the concept of recalls.

            The true answer is probably that we’re both wrong and the answer is that as a consumer: you lose, fuck you. Also fuck your family dog.