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That's not the list I've asked for. Those are deaths in car crashes that involved Teslas that were using automated systems. This does not mean the Tesla was at

That's not the list I've asked for. Those are deaths in car crashes that involved Teslas that were using automated systems. This does not mean the Tesla was at fault (could be other driver or Tesla driver) or that autopilot was involved (the cruise control counts as an automated system) and certainly doesn't mean that system misunderstandings caused by marketing were the cause. I'm fairly sure the grandparent just didn't consider what the sentence constructed was actually saying and was just expressing a dislike of automated car marketing. Unfortunately, people often believe unsourced comments on hackernews to be literally true rather than sentimentally true.

ShamelessC 4y ago
> Unfortunately, people often believe unsourced comments on hackernews to be literally true rather than sentimentally true Hi fellow watcher of the impending societal collapse. Glad to know I'm not alone. I have no answers for you but agree that this has gotten significantly worse since 2015 (although such imprecise discourse was inevitable with the creation of social media). In particular this site discourages commenting about "did you read the article?" which is a great rule but does slowly ensure that no one in the comments has any reason to be actually informed, just plausibly informed.