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I genuinely believe that more people would be put off buying a Tesla if the headlines were "Teslas randomly slow down" compared to "Teslas randomly kill people"
by onion2k 2y ago
I genuinely believe that more people would be put off buying a Tesla if the headlines were "Teslas randomly slow down" compared to "Teslas randomly kill people".
People wouldn't buy a car that slows down occasionally because they'd accept it would happen to they and they'd find it annoying. They'd happily buy a car that randomly kills people because they'd tell themselves it's only happen to other people.
- BoredPositron 2y agoMost of the FSD following of Tesla is a cult so if it doesn't happen to them personally it doesn't happen at all.
- KingOfCoders 2y agoSpot on.
- daghamm 2y agoAccording to NYT Tesla has been involved in 200+ court cases. At some point new buyers attitude will change from "this will never happen to _me_" to "shit, this happens all the time".
- bostik 2y agoIn other words: "my time is more valuable than your life".