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Of course it's not fine in that sense. What I mean is that you don't see a headline on news outlets or twitter hashtags trending for every drunk driver fatalit

Of course it's not fine in that sense. What I mean is that you don't see a headline on news outlets or twitter hashtags trending for every drunk driver fatality or crash that happens. Which for me tells that collectively, we are fine with it. We accept it as ordinary, as crazy as it may be.

oefrha 5y ago
A DUI, in California for instance, means you’re suspended for months (years if you’re a repeat offender). Since it’s basically the same “driver” driving all FSD Teslas, are you arguing that they should be suspended under the same rules for drunken behavior? If so, they will basically be out of commission indefinitely, and we won’t see headlines anymore.
- Draiken 5y ago
  No, my point is that this is overblown just because it's Tesla and people love drama, so this makes headlines and trending topics. My comparison with drunken drivers is just with the regards to the odd behavior. If you look at a drunk driver (or even someone that fell asleep in the wheel) with a near crash, many times it would resemble this video. But the outrage from the public differs vastly.
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_jal 5y ago
Drunks are ordinary because alcohol use predates agriculture. Unpredictable death-robots roaming the streets are pretty novel. I don't think that's very complicated, from a news perspective.
majormajor 5y ago
I regularly see "traffic collision kills [person or people]" stories in my local newspaper. I don't know if it's every one, it might be restricted to the extremely stupid (wrong-way on the highway, drunk, or excessively-high-speed) but "someone got killed" is certainly a common story in the news here. I've certainly seen many more local "person dies in car accident" non-brand-related stories than "person dies in Tesla accident" stories.
- josephcsible 5y ago
  The point is those stories remain local news, but whenever a Tesla is involved, it becomes national news.
roywiggins 5y ago
Yes, the societal tolerance of vehicular homicide generally is probably too high. That doesn't mean we need to endorse putting more cars on the road that sporadically act like drunks.

oefrha 5y ago

A DUI, in California for instance, means you’re suspended for months (years if you’re a repeat offender). Since it’s basically the same “driver” driving all FSD Teslas, are you arguing that they should be suspended under the same rules for drunken behavior? If so, they will basically be out of commission indefinitely, and we won’t see headlines anymore.

Draiken 5y ago
No, my point is that this is overblown just because it's Tesla and people love drama, so this makes headlines and trending topics. My comparison with drunken drivers is just with the regards to the odd behavior. If you look at a drunk driver (or even someone that fell asleep in the wheel) with a near crash, many times it would resemble this video. But the outrage from the public differs vastly.
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_jal 5y ago

Drunks are ordinary because alcohol use predates agriculture. Unpredictable death-robots roaming the streets are pretty novel. I don't think that's very complicated, from a news perspective.

majormajor 5y ago

I regularly see "traffic collision kills [person or people]" stories in my local newspaper. I don't know if it's every one, it might be restricted to the extremely stupid (wrong-way on the highway, drunk, or excessively-high-speed) but "someone got killed" is certainly a common story in the news here. I've certainly seen many more local "person dies in car accident" non-brand-related stories than "person dies in Tesla accident" stories.

josephcsible 5y ago
The point is those stories remain local news, but whenever a Tesla is involved, it becomes national news.

roywiggins 5y ago

Yes, the societal tolerance of vehicular homicide generally is probably too high. That doesn't mean we need to endorse putting more cars on the road that sporadically act like drunks.