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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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