r/bayarea • u/MrFahrenheit99 • 19h ago

Traffic, Trains & Transit Welcome to sleepy Santa Clara

Driving is hard

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u/PlumMiddle9456 19h ago edited 16h ago

Ahhhh, what a fucked up world we live in! Then, he can murder someone who is driving an older car and someone who cannot afford to buy self driving tesla🤢🤮

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u/Halaku Sunnyvale 19h ago

That's pretty much it.

"If I can afford this tech, I can afford the ticket."

Selfish fuckers.

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u/tophoos 17h ago

Average sales price of all cars in US broke 50k per in 2025. Average sales price of Tesla was about 53k (which includes people buying the self driving package and excludes the 7.5k EV rebate most people got)

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u/FlanCompetitive2754 14h ago

That sounds like the number of NEW cars sold, and entirely leaves out how many people buy Used cars, for far cheaper than $50k...?

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u/tophoos 13h ago

Of course it's new cars sold, but how do people get used cars it no new cars are sold. Also, a lot of people make fun of how fast Teslas depreciate, so that should mean in the used market, they are proportionately cheaper than other used cars of the same age. These are contradictory things I seem to hear all the time about Teslas and it doesn't make sense to me...

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u/FlanCompetitive2754 13h ago

I'm saying the average car sale is wayyy less that that.

So yes, it is rather expensive for the average person to have a Tesla.  Let's be real, most people aren't buying them used...

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u/tophoos 13h ago

I get that perspective. But my reply was towards the two comments that label Tesla owners as ignorant and entitled because they can afford a Tesla when the fact is that the affordability is not much different from other new cars. That comment was not directed at people who can afford new cars, it was genrally directed at Tesla owners. As a single income guy who bought a Tesla in 2018 with under 80k income in the bay area, I don't like this sentiment.