I strongly suspect the parent was arguing in bad faith. The word choice of "cheating" and the baseless allegation that outside of the specific test crashes that

I strongly suspect the parent was arguing in bad faith. The word choice of "cheating" and the baseless allegation that outside of the specific test crashes that there were likely to be fatalities is indicative of bad faith. A good faith argument could be made to discuss how the crash tests like any sort of benchmarking are likely to lead to optimization for the tests - you get more of what you can measure - so one needs to be careful that the results are broadly applicable. This of course would apply to all makers, not just Tesla. But that is not the argument the parent made.