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Then tell me. Why do we hear news from Tesla cars all the time and none of VW, BMW, etc. where we had adaptive cruise control for quite some time?

bjelkeman-again 8y ago
Better click bait is my speculation. I haven’t seen any comparative statistics of adaptive cruise control accidents. Would be interesting to see. But then the features are relatively different so hard to compare.
whatshisface 8y ago
Tesla's brand power has substantially raised the public interest factor in any story involving it, including accidents. There are no single-edged swords in PR as it seems.
bertil 8y ago
Because one death is a tragedy, but a thousand is a statistics. There are literally dozens of thousands of death on the road, millions of accidents per year but, unless a Tesla or Waymo is involved, no one hears about them
Arn_Thor 8y ago
Why do we see headlines every time an iPhone spontaneously combusts, but nothing when there are (isolated) incidents with Samsung, Huawei, LG etc.? Because one brand generates clicks, the others don't
- ahakki 8y ago
  Tesla isn’t Apple. Tesla is more like Essential.
  - Arn_Thor 8y ago
    Not in terms of name recognition and public interest, which is what I was talking about
- jonhendry18 8y ago
  Samsung phone combustion gets coverage. You may recall a while back where they had to recall a phone due to them bursting into flames, and some airlines specifically banned the combusting model.
  - Arn_Thor 8y ago
    I had that in mind, which is why I specified isolated incidents
deelowe 8y ago
Because those companies aren't putting out videos like this one: https://www.tesla.com/videos/autopilot-self-driving-hardware-neighborhood-long https://www.tesla.com/videos/autopilot-self-driving-hardware...
dawnerd 8y ago
Probably because their emergency braking actually works. Source: my VW saved me already. It was able to spot a stopped vehicle in my lane.

bjelkeman-again 8y ago

Better click bait is my speculation. I haven’t seen any comparative statistics of adaptive cruise control accidents. Would be interesting to see. But then the features are relatively different so hard to compare.

whatshisface 8y ago

Tesla's brand power has substantially raised the public interest factor in any story involving it, including accidents. There are no single-edged swords in PR as it seems.

bertil 8y ago

Because one death is a tragedy, but a thousand is a statistics. There are literally dozens of thousands of death on the road, millions of accidents per year but, unless a Tesla or Waymo is involved, no one hears about them

Arn_Thor 8y ago

Why do we see headlines every time an iPhone spontaneously combusts, but nothing when there are (isolated) incidents with Samsung, Huawei, LG etc.? Because one brand generates clicks, the others don't

ahakki 8y ago
Tesla isn’t Apple. Tesla is more like Essential.
- Arn_Thor 8y ago
  Not in terms of name recognition and public interest, which is what I was talking about
jonhendry18 8y ago
Samsung phone combustion gets coverage. You may recall a while back where they had to recall a phone due to them bursting into flames, and some airlines specifically banned the combusting model.
- Arn_Thor 8y ago
  I had that in mind, which is why I specified isolated incidents

deelowe 8y ago

Because those companies aren't putting out videos like this one: https://www.tesla.com/videos/autopilot-self-driving-hardware-neighborhood-long https://www.tesla.com/videos/autopilot-self-driving-hardware...

dawnerd 8y ago

Probably because their emergency braking actually works. Source: my VW saved me already. It was able to spot a stopped vehicle in my lane.