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[meta] Whenever there is something remotely critical of Tesla, the comment section is a mess. Downvotes left-and-right, people are divided on bullshit semantics
by decebalus1 8y ago
[meta] Whenever there is something remotely critical of Tesla, the comment section is a mess. Downvotes left-and-right, people are divided on bullshit semantics, etc.. I really don't get why. Same thing (but worse, actually) happens on Reddit.
Is Tesla PR so 'well connected' to astroturf basically everywhere or did their marketing succeeded in creating an army of people who emotionally associate Tesla with the future of humanity? It's just a car folks, take a chill pill.
- Someone1234 8y agoI don't think Tesla needs to astroturf, they have plenty of supports who will happily defend them for free. Similar things happen in Apple threads, sports threads (elsewhere), and the games console wars. People just don't like their chosen sacred cow getting criticized.
- QuantumGood 8y agoYou didn't specify which semantics are "bullshit", but I wouldn't lump discussion about autopilot into that. For example, part of the argument over the feature being termed autopilot has been that it supports misleading statements from salespeople—the least "semantic" issue with the name I am aware of. A feature designed to assist in life-or-death situations shouldn't be named in a Darwinian way, harming those who assume more than should be assumed.