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computably • today at 6:10 AM • 0 replies • view on HN

> It's very shocking to see this turn of the editorial approach for a company that did change the full industry.

Is it? Regardless of how revolutionary a company was, they don't get a free pass on criticism.

I had a positive sentiment towards Tesla when the mission was basically "make EVs sexy" and "promote clean electricity." Although they didn't have a perfect record (QC, proprietary charging, RtR), at least they were disrupting a stagnant industry, with a noble enough goal.

Now when I think of Tesla, I think of their deployment of "Full Self Driving (Beta) [keep your hands on the wheel and eyes on the road]", "Robotaxi (with human driver)," "Humanoid robot (why?)," and of course the glorious leader who bought Twitter so he could "protect free speech" by banning people he disagrees with.