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It is weird that if anything goes wrong in a Tesla it suddenly becomes international news regardless of how frequently that same thing might happen in any other
by slg 5y ago
It is weird that if anything goes wrong in a Tesla it suddenly becomes international news regardless of how frequently that same thing might happen in any other make of vehicle.
- avalys 5y ago“Someone did a bad thing on the internet!” yawn “Someone did a bad thing on Facebook!” Call the Washington Post!
- mft_ 5y agoIt drives clicks for lazy journalists. Although, it’s worth noting that part of Elon/Tesla’s approach to marketing is to not pay for advertising, and rely quite significantly on social media - with Elon’s sometimes controversial Twitter central to that. One might posit that they have made themselves into the click-worthy meme company that the media now exploit?
- IshKebab 5y agoI don't think so. Electric cars have new and interesting failure modes (e.g. not having neutral so you can't tow them) and Tesla takes a very... casual attitude to safety critical software development so people are naturally interested when it goes wrong. I'm sure when petrol cars started breaking down and horse and carts didn't it was news too. That's why they call it news.