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Perfect-Height-8837 t1_j957xuy wrote

Reply to comment by Thegarbagegamer97 in 1 person dies when Tesla hits fire truck on I-680, 4 firefighters injured by twelveparsnips

This is the main reason I want to buy a Tesla. It doesn't even need to be in self driving mode, but the Media will report my death to the world just because I was driving a Tesla.
No other car manufacturer can offer this level of post-mortem notoriety.
You never read headlines such as "some nobody dies when his Skoda crashed into a firetruck."
But put Mr Nobody in a Tesla and he's worth reporting about.

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writingt t1_j95n96j wrote

People crashing their cars has been happening for over a hundred years and as horrible as it is is nothing new. A car crashing itself and killing its driver is much more newsworthy.

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Velocity_LP t1_j968du1 wrote

> A car crashing itself and killing its driver is much more newsworthy

are you confusing this article with some other incident? or did you find another source i must’ve missed? there’s zero mention of use of autopilot or anything else in this article that suggests the car caused the accident

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Perfect-Height-8837 t1_j96zlk6 wrote

I think you may have fallen for the false assumption the title was leading you to. They want you to assume Autopilot only for you to learn it was just a bad driver. Therefore, Tesla is still good.

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LogicisGone t1_j95o6o7 wrote

I mean my local news pretty much covers every car accident with a death and I don't remember a single instance of anyone hitting a parked fire truck ever. Let alone also killing someone and injuring 4 firefighters. I would actually call this newsworthy.

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Perfect-Height-8837 t1_j96zahq wrote

Do they mention the make of car in the headlines?
Usually not.

Funny thing is, Murdoch's son is on the board of directors at Tesla.

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jedi_trey t1_j95sudx wrote

Well that's some hard hitting data

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