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Friend...it's not as easy as you think. If you imagine every step of the way from pressing a pedal to what happens on the drive platform, it is absolutely NOT simple whatsoever. It's not just "go" and "stop", it's a dozen steps of software on an RTOS moving so fast as to be imperceptible as a normal physical pedal interaction would, controlling multiple motors at once, synchronizing power, rotations, and detecting traction, and that's just pressing the acceleration pedal. All the other safety systems engaged in the process of they exist are very sophisticated. All of this then culminates in an experience that hopefully eulmulates what you describe, but it is certainly NOT just strapping some different motors to the same kind of car. Don't even get me started on the platform suspension automations and efficiency systems.
You're just not very well read on the subject, so you might want to go catch up before you keep spouting this nonsense and looking kind of ill-informed.
All this to say though, I am NOT sticking up for Tesla. I'm sticking up for the progress in the industry. Yeah, some shit needs to get figured out for sure, but that doesn't mean people should stick with the old way of doing that "same old bullshit" until it gets figured out in a lab somewhere. Progress needs to get made, and this is how it's shaking out.
To your point about that wreck, that sure looks like it wasn't the Tesla drivers fault, so it shouldn't impact them.