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What? It's "Tesla recalls 53,000 cars over brake issue" which is the same as the headline on the HN post. I'm pretty used to the Tesla/Elon sycophants on HN (a
by IBM 9y ago
What? It's "Tesla recalls 53,000 cars over brake issue" which is the same as the headline on the HN post.
I'm pretty used to the Tesla/Elon sycophants on HN (and Reddit and Twitter for that matter) but fabricating a headline to knock down is pretty brazen.
- BinaryIdiot 9y ago> fabricating a headline to knock down is pretty brazen. Parent's "quote" was just a paraphrase. Calling it a fabrication is a bit much, don't you think? Anyway, it deserves a knock down, IMO, because the first instinct when reading it is that there is an issue with the breaks that people most commonly use. Using the parking break isn't nearly as common or frequent as the regular breaks. Simply adding "parking" into the headline would have made it far less sensational and far more accurate.
- kayoone 9y agoThe BBC headline is sensationalist and deserves being critiqued for being click-bait. Makes it sound like tens of thousands of people could potentially drive around with not-working brakes, while the actual issue is pretty minor and just related to the parking brake.