Nobody actually reads the manual though.

I read manuals, back-to-back. Admittingly, I skip legalese disclaimers because they are intellectual noise. However, many manuals contain golden nuggets of information revealing that most people misuse a certain product or don't use it the best possible way.

A well written manual can be a teaching lesson about the relevant stuff given by domain experts for regular users. Who'd say No to that?

Hacker News commenters seem to be a poor representation of the average population.

Heaps of people read the manual.

I feel like this is the kind of thing you should be made aware of (for real, not just in impenetrable terms of service) before you even buy the car.

I feel like certain people will constantly complain about “not being made aware” about things no matter how clearly you state it to them. It is obvious in hindsight that many owners do not read the manual, don’t read screenwar warnings and skip the first time intro. But they still complain that “they weren’t made aware!” Ultimately if Musk himself took a trip to each individual owner and screamed at the top of his lungs the terms of service in their face, we would still be hearing people saying they weren’t made aware.

Legally they were made aware, if you want to change the law do so. But please stop letting user play morons selectively when it turns out they didn’t rtfm. That is on them and should be on them.