Happens with a lot of stuff, certain American-made motorcycles, for instance. You're in the club now, and the only way to stay in the club is to carry the manufacturer's water. In no case are we to admit that we spent a bunch of money on something that does a poor job of fulfilling its advertised purpose.

In context of Apple this was often referred to as the Stockholm Syndrome.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome

what's even more interesting is when a market of people choose to act out of the ordinary to cope with a product that has an issue, but in the situation where the product is self-learning to a degree.

Tesla hits a wall, Folks drive abnormally due to qualms with incident, Tesla receives data and throws it in the ML mix, Car learns from people driving purposely strange.

Of course, it doesn't work out like that; not enough people will do it to influence anything very much, but it's a funny thing to consider.

The point non owners miss is that early adopters are aware of what they are buying and what to expect, while the very vocal know-it-alls of the interwebs are judging the technology as if it was supposed to be perfect. I am glad Tesla’s future doesn’t depend on these people’s opinions.

The cars are brilliant pure and simple, minor defects get eclipsed.

Nothing out there comes close to Autopilot. It's biggest problem is it works 99% of the time and people trust it too much.

It's also worth noting you are NOT meant to be using it in work zone. A point a lot of comments seem to completely ignore.

https://www.tesla.com/content/dam/tesla/Ownership/Own/Model%...

Nothing in their marketing suggests that it's a beta feature. (Just look at the Autopilot tab when configuring a new Tesla)