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Musk prefers to lie to the public and benefits from the disintermediation of the media that various Internet distribution channels have allowed. Tesla often mak
by ebikelaw 8y ago
Musk prefers to lie to the public and benefits from the disintermediation of the media that various Internet distribution channels have allowed. Tesla often makes clearly false statements. SpaceX, when part of their heavy lift rocket crashed into the ocean, cut away from that scene to a shot of two happy smiling spokesmodels pretending to not know what had happened. Today what we need more than we ever needed it is skepticism, journalism, and vigorous investigation. You can’t take anything these companies are saying at face value.
- dpcx 8y ago"Spokesmodels"? Those were SpaceX employees. SpaceX engineers. And at least initially, I don't think they actually knew what happened. Maybe they did later, but not initially.
- mikejb 8y agoThe SpaceX comparison is a bad example. Sure they could have said "this and that happened", but there's always the point on how much you can trust the data you get at that point. I fully understand them not talking about failures when cause and consequences aren't even remotely understood. But I understand where you're coming from, and I agree: Tesla quickly released statements claiming the safety benefits of Autopilot, putting all the blame on the driver, and even providing misleading statements ('the driver was warned multiple times' but leaving out that that happened 15+ minutes prior). That was the exact opposite, when they didn't know the cause of the accident, but were quick to just deny any wrongdoing.