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Brett Snyder - '24 Cybertruck & '25 Model Y Long Range

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@lialiascg Amateur: non-professional

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@lialiascg “…projecting their negative assumptions onto strangers all day long. must be a sad life.”

Some days I sense you are in the same trap.

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@LimitingThe They will still put his corrupt ass on cable for panel segments. 🙈

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@lialiascg George Michael said it best -

Sex is natural, sex is good
Not everybody does it
But everybody should

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@TSLAFanMtl @MurrayHillGuy1 Or, be a cat 🐱

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@hs97998 @lialiascg And smelling nice 😊

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@hs97998 @lialiascg I have. She’s not on X tho

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I don’t think the NYT, or any news outlet, is going to contact you or me about our experiences or opinions on FSD with regards to the Texas story.

While we can pipe dream that a reporter will sift through X posts to get the “real FSD experience,” it’s not going to happen.

In a crash investigation, you need defined experts, like Tesla itself and NHTSA.

All the uproar over this tragedy and how it’s covered is like complaining about the score from the bleachers.

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@farzyness Gotta ask - how much harm does Tesla cause by refusing to play the media relations game?

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@TSLAFanMtl If anyone would like to eee what a big boy press office does, just do a Google News search for Bluecruise and Supercruise.

Nobody should complain if they aren’t in the game.

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I get your point - but I think you are comparing apples with oranges.

This initial headlines were straight up Police Blotter stories. By today, more nuanced stories are being written because Ashok tweeted and NHTSA has launched an investigation.

At the end of the day, the anger and frustration from those of us familiar with FSD is best directed towards the Model 3 driver, Michael Butler. Our experience does not match Butler’s statement.

That said, if a flaw in FSD is uncovered (and there’s always a greater than zero chance of that) then we all want the truth to be known.

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Rob, if you are working for xyz newspaper and are tasked with writing a story about the Katy, TX crash that day, what do you have to work with? Probably just the police report is the only information available to you.

Tesla will not help you or offer a plausible explanation or any guidance on how their driver assistance systems work. Certainly not in time for deadline.

Is it your job to be charitable to Tesla? Give them benefit of the doubt? A journalist would answer “No” and go with what’s in the police report.

And the report includes the driver’s statement about using the car’s driver assistance systems. That’s it. It’s not alleged. That is the driver’s statement.

If you want an example of bad journalism, just look up Fred Lambert’s work. His headline today is “Tesla admits FSD was on in fatal Texas crash, blames driver for ‘overriding’ it”. Fred chooses to use verbs like”admits” and “blames” to color a factual statement in a nagative light.

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Let’s put emotion aside and be objective.

If FSD failed and killed a grandmother in her home, it would be a major story.

The articles and headlines were written with the information at hand. The driver says they were on autopilot. What did Tesla have to say? Crickets.

Would it make folks feel better if a journalist added “we reached out to Tesla, but they have no one to contact.”?

The closest one could get is Investor Relations or various coworkers on X.

While I will agree there’s a ton of criticism deserved from mainstream media, Tesla’s strategy to not play in the arena is also worthy of criticism.

Btw, I have been through Journalism & Communications School.

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I hear you Jeff - but let’s not turn a blind eye to the fact Tesla does not lift a finger to offer the media any counter argument or facts. Elon gave up on that long ago.

I would imagine media relations salaries are a lot cheaper than lawyers’

FSD is getting so amazing you have to ask if Tesla’s lack of press office, public education and advertising is hurting more people than the clickable headlines.

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I hate the headlines as much as anyone - but let’s be real. The headlines are NOT factually incorrect. Tesla having no press office to answer media questions does not help.

As much as Tesla fans appreciate Ashok’s posts on X, it’s not going to resolve these recurring issues.

At some point do we dare ask if Tesla’s position on consumer education, press relations and advertising plays a negative factor in saving lives?

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@lialiascg What’s yours? 💦

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@lialiascg You have an IG?

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@bradsferguson @LimitingThe I got 24/24 on Fidelity 👏🏼