Tesla calls self-driving technology 'failure,' not fraud

Re:Tesla calls self-driving technology 'failure,' not fraud by dotancohen on Saturday December 10, 2022 @02:25PM (#33935865)

What is with this Cult of Elon? I really don't care who the CEO is, I love my Model 3. It costs me literally one sixth the cost per kilometer than my previous Nissan was costing, when comparing the cost of electricity and gas. And that's before considering that I haven't had to change the oil or do any other scheduled maintenance in the 35000 or so KM I've put on it.

And it's not just the price. My kids who previously couldn't stand long drives now want to go places, at first because of the glass roof but now because they love when I sqeeze them into the seatback with the throttle. It's car number 15 for me, and the best of any of them by far. Who cares about the CEO? I don't even know who the CEO of Nissan was when I had that, or Ford when I had that, or Renault when I had that.

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Re:Tesla calls self-driving technology 'failure,' not fraud by anigbrowl on Saturday December 10, 2022 @02:28PM (#33935886)

The CEOs of those other car companies were not raging egotists backed up by a crowd of howler monkeys chasing a parasocial dopamine hit.

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Re:Tesla calls self-driving technology 'failure,' not fraud by dotancohen on Sunday December 11, 2022 @01:54AM (#33940808)

  > The CEOs of those other car companies were not raging egotists

Actually, from the stories of 1950's and 1960's Detroit, in fact they were. I don't know about today.

  > backed up by a crowd of howler monkeys chasing a parasocial dopamine hit.

_This_ is the problem. Who cares if Elon eats kittens or promises Mars rocks in the glovebox? It's the Twitter Shitters magnifying every musing into predictions and three-page blog posts that is the problem. Just don't listen to them.

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