Comment by ve55 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by ve55 | Hacker News Reader

There doesn't seem to be much actual content here. The article states "Tesla CEO Elon Musk appears to have" without ever mentioning what caused them to believe Elon Musk is involved. Then it states "It's not clear how many cars, if any, have left the station without doing this test."

So, they not only have no evidence Elon Musk is involved in this, but have no evidence that proper testing has been skipped on cars. And then they go ahead and title the article "Elon Musk ordered Tesla engineers to stop doing a critical brake test on Model 3s".

Stop it with the bullshit clickbait headlines. It's bad enough having them completely permeate politics, but now that it's becoming so widespread in other areas is just proving how correct people like Elon Musk are in their criticism of the media.

> So, they not only have no evidence Elon Musk is involved in this, but have no evidence that proper testing has been skipped on cars

"Tesla CEO Elon Musk appears to have asked engineers at Tesla's factory in Fremont, California, to remove a standard brake test ... according to internal documents seen by Business Insider."

"The test was apparently shut down before 3 a.m. on June 26, according to a person familiar with the matter."

They have a source who provided documentary evidence.

"In a statement, a Tesla representative, Dave Arnold, told Business Insider that every car goes through 'rigorous quality checks,' including brake tests."

Tesla did not deny the story, which pretty much confirms it.

If it shut down on June 26th we can guesstimate the number of cars not tested to be 4000-5000

That seems to be the current trend for business insider at the moment. The article is usually only a slightly fleshed out version of the headline with little actual content or reporting.

How many of the recent negative Tesla accounts would you say are "bullshit clickbait"?

I have no clue. It's too hard to tell the fake content (or similarly exaggerated content) from the real content (that actually matters and is mostly true) unless you devote a lot of your time to it, and I usually try to focus on other things besides reading about Tesla.

In general I try to read articles with much more skepticism now, regardless of what narrative they're trying to push.

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