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Re:NTSB: Tesla Model S in Crash Couldn't Have Been Using Aut... by tallanvor on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @05:57AM (#27116179)
>I also recognise that if Tesla doesn’t get out in front of every single incident, it may set back the replacement of human drivers with safer AI drivers.

Tesla doesn't need to get out in front of every incident. Musk feels the need to because of the outlandish claims he continues to make about how close Tesla is to having autonomous vehicles. This is something Tesla's board should have reined him in on long ago.

>I don’t really trust any famous person for privacy, because they necessarily don’t have even close to as much of it as a normal person.

I agree that famous people have less privacy, and there's a lot of unfairness around that. But even if Musk hadn't chosen to become a public spectacle, that doesn't give him the right to treat others the same way.

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Re:NTSB: Tesla Model S in Crash Couldn't Have Been Using Aut... by DennisP on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @07:37AM (#27116814)
In this case he felt the need due to outlandish and incorrect claims about the nature of the accident.
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Re:NTSB: Tesla Model S in Crash Couldn't Have Been Using Aut... by ben_w on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @06:41AM (#27116423)
> But even if Musk hadn't chosen to become a public spectacle, that doesn't give him the right to treat others the same way.

Of course.

What I’m saying is, I don’t expect the famous to be able to empathise with the rest of us, not that it’s good that they can’t.

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Re:NTSB: Tesla Model S in Crash Couldn't Have Been Using Aut... by sumedh on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @11:21AM (#27119160)
> Tesla doesn't need to get out in front of every incident.

Tesla has been attacked in the past so maybe Elon takes such issues personally.

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