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"Forget Tesla" is the wrong attitude. We should applaud every win we can get, big or small.
by reustle 8y ago
"Forget Tesla" is the wrong attitude. We should applaud every win we can get, big or small.
- omarforgotpwd 8y agoThey just put Tesla in the title to get people to click on it
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- twblalock 8y agoThe framing of the article is that oil companies need to be more concerned about the Chinese buses than about Tesla. It's a simple rhetorical device, not a statement that Tesla does not matter.
- hawkice 8y agoI've sometimes been concerned that headline writing is (metaphorically) subcontracted to buzzfeed everywhere, NYT, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, just about everywhere.
- twblalock 8y agoPeople talk about "clickbait" but it's not really new. On a website, or the pages of a paper newspaper, there is a bunch of stuff vying for readers' attention and the headline has always been a way of making stories seem interesting.
- randomsearch 8y agoRecently (thanks to a post on HN) I’ve discovered the Financial Times to be a mature news source that doesn’t generally go in for clickbait.
- trevyn 8y agoReuters as well.
- ekianjo 8y agoI would be very surprised if they dont have a clickbaity machine learning algorithm to optimize headlines for more clicks. That would be a very natural thing to do in this kind of business.
- asdff 8y ago"The Holy Bible" was the first editorialized clickbait title
- melling 8y agoIt’s a clickbait title. More appropriate clickbait would be “the United States becomes the #1 producer of oil while China rushes to electric vehicles”, busses and cars: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-autos-electric/china-targets-35-million-vehicle-sales-by-2025-nevs-to-make-up-one-fifth-idUSKBN17R086 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-autos-electric/chin...
- crumpets 8y agoThat revision is still clickbait. The US being the #1 producer of oil doesn’t say anything about usage. Example: a country could simultaneously be a low user while being a huge producer - Norway.
- melling 8y agoI understand your made up hypothetical example but it has no value. Wouldn’t it be more worthwhile to deal with reality? The US is by far the largest consumer of oil and we love large vehicles. https://qz.com/1344537/by-2020-suvs-could-make-up-50-of-us-car-sales/ https://qz.com/1344537/by-2020-suvs-could-make-up-50-of-us-c...
- buzzerbetrayed 8y agoWhy do we need to include the US in the title at all when the story is about e buses in China?
- goshx 8y agoIt’s bloomberg, we can’t expect much.
- ekianjo 8y agoWe should celebrate what makes things available to everyone, not just to rich clients. Tesla is still far away from selling cars to everyone.
- icebraining 8y agoWhy? Are poor people immune to the pollution emitted by a rich person's ICE vehicle? Even if we assume a fully fossil power generation grid, at least the inhabitants of the same city are not breathing as much crap, and that's a huge plus.
- ekianjo 8y agosure, I am just saying the benefits would be much higher if you had more electric cars used by everyone instead of just 1 percent of the market.
- asdff 8y agoWe need collective solutions, not individual displays of wealth and awareness like a 40k tesla you take from home to work with 3 empty seats. I saw elsewhere in the thread that 1 bus = 33 cars in terms of congestion savings. Projects like the hyperloop seem vain and childish in comparison. It would be trivial for tesla to design a bus and they already have the ear of LA city hall to dig a half assed tunnel. Musk could make a real name for himself if he helps to convert the second largest bus fleet in North America into EVs.