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I think Musk will have a lot more trouble with that logic than Trump did. People who like Trump like his usual behavior, with all its crassness. People who li

I think Musk will have a lot more trouble with that logic than Trump did. People who like Trump like his usual behavior, with all its crassness. People who like Musk mostly liked his former behavior: building electric cars, launching rockets into space and talking about saving humanity, and tried to sweep his public behavior under the rug as much as possible. That's no longer working very well. People who'd formerly be proud to own a Tesla are now starting to have second thoughts.

tailspin2019 4y ago
My second thoughts on buying a Tesla started a few years ago now when following a car crash involving a Tesla, they would start to publicly blame the actions of the (sometimes dead) driver (aka “their customer”) based on their “logs” - when there was a clear incentive for them to find the first possible thing that they could point to, to indicate driver error rather than, for example, an autopilot error. Even if they were technically right in some cases, this just seemed to be in such poor taste, often impossible to verify, and just felt wrong on so many levels. And poor PR and a disproportionate focus on Tesla in the media is not a good enough excuse. I can’t help thinking that it’s another example of Elon’s reactionary thin skin mentality driving company policy.