Re:An Update on Last Week’s Accident
by semi-extrinsic on Saturday March 31, 2018 @05:21PM
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I think you're absolutely correct, and moreover that the difference comes from that it's in Toyota's best interest to think about the long term, play good guy and dip into their rainy day money for any costs associated with that.
Whereas with Tesla, they're leveraged out to here with stock valuation based on promises and projections, and if their key tech is perceived as seriously flawed, they're not going to exist as a company in the long term.
Re:An Update on Last Week’s Accident
by microtherion on Saturday March 31, 2018 @09:15PM
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As far as I can tell, Toyota (or other car manufacturers) would be just as inclined to argue driver error in crashes (especially once involved in litigation). See e.g. https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/pubs/koopman14_toyota_ua_... for a discussion of some Toyota crashes.
Re:An Update on Last Week’s Accident
by ocdtrekkie on Sunday April 01, 2018 @01:21AM
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I think there's a significant difference between a company who will defend itself reasonably in court, and one which is actively collecting telemetry on your car, and will proactively write a blog about how badly you drove.
I mean, look, it makes sense Tesla has to defend itself, especially legally, but there's a big difference between pulling out the logs when you need to for the lawyers and the regulators... and making a public blog post blaming the customer.