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In my experience the Uber incident was also intensively covered, even more than each fatal AI incident that happened with a Tesla. While not living in the US, I
by woodpanel 7y ago
In my experience the Uber incident was also intensively covered, even more than each fatal AI incident that happened with a Tesla. While not living in the US, I'm reading up on such issues as does anybody else at HN, but the Uber crash was the only such incident that made my country's evening news (as far as I can remember) [1].
Apart from that: Of all companies involved in the R&D of autonomous driving Tesla is probably the "loudest" (i.e. they make the strongest claims to the greatest audience), so being criticized the loudest is just about right IMHO.
[1] Granted, maybe that was just due to the video footage the killer-car taped.
EDIT: [1] And probably also due to the fact that not the car's passenger/driver was killed, but a pedestrian.
- pdimitar 7y agoYep, I admitted my filter bubble might have skewed my opinion on which events are covered how much. But HN itself demonstrates a lot of negative bias towards Tesla and Musk in particular. I get it that the marketing can be deceptive but I still fail to see what Tesla does so much worse than anybody else; many people are furious with dubious marketing claims of many other companies yet Tesla always seems to get the most flak here in HN and, to an extent, on Reddit.