It's interesting how there's no negativity check to discussion forums, because there is effectively zero cost to endlessly being wrong and endlessly negative. When confronted with even a 50/50 proposition, the obvious bet is to go hard negative against it.
The last two dozen, or more, Tesla threads I've read on HN, have been approximately 95% negative. I've never seen anything like it in the last eight years I've been reading the site. The Facebook blowback recently perhaps, although they've harmed the privacy of tens or hundreds of millions of people.
Maybe someone here can help me understand, why the extreme emotional reaction to Tesla these days? I've found you can't even point out actual positive facts about Tesla without suffering a wave of downvotes regardless.
They're going bankrupt next month. Or next quarter. They suck. They build shit cars. The panels don't fit together ever! Electric cars are easy to build. They have endless competition that will smoke them. Musk is always wrong. He's committing securities fraud, probably; or at least SpaceX is, or maybe Tesla is. They'll never get autonomous driving right. They're behind everyone in autonomous driving. China, or Europe, will eat their lunch. Telsa will never reach profitability. So what if they've grown sales rapidly, they still suck. All the other car companies are already out-producing them in electric cars. They'll never produce the Model 3 at scale; they'll never produce 1,000 per week; they'll never produce 5,000 per week; and even if they do, they'll still suck! And so on for another 57 negative concepts.
To give a specific example, a lot of comments I've read, have claimed Tesla would never mass produce the Model 3. Post after post for months has stated plainly that they were going to fail at it. It was obvious, supposedly. Now they're tracking to 100,000 or more in just in the second half of the year. If you point that out, the response you'll get is either: yeah but they missed Musk's original target by a mile; or: yeah, well, the quality sucks (ie a deflection and criticism shift, which points to a broader cynicism).
You'd think we were dealing with a genocidal warlord, not a car company.