We went digging to see if that widely shared class-action lawsuit accusing Tesla of odometer fraud had any real-world backing. Honestly, we expected it to be overblown. Odometer lawsuits aren’t exactly everyday news, the last one I can remember was a branding disaster for Ferrari. To our surprise, Tesla drivers have been publicly posting about […]
A Tesla influencer randomly caught his odometer double-counting mileage on video. Wild.
I’m old school so an odometer should never do anything other than measure wheel rotations with a multiplier of circumference of the tire.
Maybe if you wanna get fancy have the multiplier occasionally recalibrated based on GPS but that’s it.
Yeah, I think smart/honest engineers do it exactly like that.
The GPS validates the physical rotation data, corrects for errors. That’s why the standard of accuracy has improved in the last 10 years.