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Yea people are going to hate Tesla because of musk or bc they’re always in the news. I’m not saying that there isn’t valid criticism it just seems that they’re held to a totally different standard than other companies. People really enjoy taking a moral stance against them like you’re doing but it really seems like an overreaction.


As far as I can tell, Tesla was one of the first if not the first to start marking their autonomy as "Auto Pilot" and then subsequently "Full Self Driving (Beta)". Tesla also is unique in trying to implement these technologies using sensors which are not state of the art, a reason which was cost cutting (lasers are too expensive for consumers cars) and naïve (at the time and still today vision technology cannot replace a robust suite of sensors).

Nonetheless they released this beta-technology into the public, without consent. It's caused loss of life, property damage, and on top of it all it's also fraud, because it hasn't even delivered on the promise of full self driving after many years of promises.

I don't think calling them out for this is an overreaction.




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