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You were just linked to a google search full of press reports about a missing brake pad recall, and the entire front page was results about GM, and your respons

You were just linked to a google search full of press reports about a missing brake pad recall, and the entire front page was results about GM, and your response is that the press is silent as long as it's not Tesla? Seriously?

judge2020 5y ago
Especially because Tesla is considered some new popular tech company, the media is focusing on them a lot more compared to traditional automakers. There are hundreds of recalls a year[0], and yes, there are articles on most of them, but it's all in an attempt to capture SEO for 'recalls for <year make model>' and thus low-visibility; but any time the 'Apple of Cars' issues a recall, it turns into a reuters article and thus 10 other publications publish a story on it, where it continues to spread like wildfire. All recalls are warranted, even when done voluntarily for small manufacturing issues, but you can't deny that articles about Teslas having issues are guaranteed to generate more clicks and thus more ad revenue than one about some years-old Ford or GM vehicle. 0: https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/documents/2020_nhtsa_recall_annual_report_021021-tag.pdf https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/documents/2020_n...
- otterley 5y ago
  If Elon Musk wasn’t such an asshole, he probably wouldn’t attract extra attention in the first place. (Yet note that there is no quantitative evidence presented here that Tesla gets more attention than other manufacturers when defects arise.) People often make their own problems by making outrageous claims in the first place.
  - judge2020 5y ago
    It at least gets more attention from the tech crowd. https://hn.algolia.com/?q=recall https://hn.algolia.com/?q=recall The only car recalls with more points on HN than the Tesla ones are Hyundai (regarding South Korea being soft on them; the issue was already a recall in the US) and the VW emissions scandal.
keewee7 5y ago
>You were just linked to a google search full of press reports about a missing brake pad recall I disagree with GP that the press is harsh on Tesla. However mainstream media write about everything but most of it has been deeply buried on their websites and will only be read by a few thousand people. The actual narratives the media is pushing are the stories you find on their frontpages and being pushed on their social media accounts. These are the stories that will be read by millions of people.

judge2020 5y ago

Especially because Tesla is considered some new popular tech company, the media is focusing on them a lot more compared to traditional automakers. There are hundreds of recalls a year[0], and yes, there are articles on most of them, but it's all in an attempt to capture SEO for 'recalls for <year make model>' and thus low-visibility; but any time the 'Apple of Cars' issues a recall, it turns into a reuters article and thus 10 other publications publish a story on it, where it continues to spread like wildfire. All recalls are warranted, even when done voluntarily for small manufacturing issues, but you can't deny that articles about Teslas having issues are guaranteed to generate more clicks and thus more ad revenue than one about some years-old Ford or GM vehicle. 0: https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/documents/2020_nhtsa_recall_annual_report_021021-tag.pdf https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/documents/2020_n...

otterley 5y ago
If Elon Musk wasn’t such an asshole, he probably wouldn’t attract extra attention in the first place. (Yet note that there is no quantitative evidence presented here that Tesla gets more attention than other manufacturers when defects arise.) People often make their own problems by making outrageous claims in the first place.
- judge2020 5y ago
  It at least gets more attention from the tech crowd. https://hn.algolia.com/?q=recall https://hn.algolia.com/?q=recall The only car recalls with more points on HN than the Tesla ones are Hyundai (regarding South Korea being soft on them; the issue was already a recall in the US) and the VW emissions scandal.

keewee7 5y ago

>You were just linked to a google search full of press reports about a missing brake pad recall I disagree with GP that the press is harsh on Tesla. However mainstream media write about everything but most of it has been deeply buried on their websites and will only be read by a few thousand people. The actual narratives the media is pushing are the stories you find on their frontpages and being pushed on their social media accounts. These are the stories that will be read by millions of people.