The article uses Tesla as a way to catch the readers eye. The actual article shows that Senator Scott asked not only Tesla, but other manufacturers such as Ford, GM, and Stellantis about what they were doing to mitigate this.
I really feel like the article buried the lede though. I really think the bigger story is that the EV can catch fire for weeks after the water damage with (I assume) no warning/diagnostic errors.
"“Lithium-ion vehicle battery fires have been observed both rapidly igniting and igniting several weeks after battery damage occurred,” Jack Danielson, executive director at NHTSA, wrote in the letter to Patronis."
Perhaps instead of trying to ask others to do something, you could have added a link to nitter, and a 240 character summary (although in this case the relevant thread is wayyy longer than that and contains relevant images, so good luck!)
As always: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Disclaimer: I sometimes find guidelines aggravating.
Perhaps a (more) Tesla(s) did catch fire after Ian but that claim is not supported by the article.
I guess the term "clickbait" is too harsh these days.