[arethuza]

I think if you are a person working in a garage you can get away with bashing products from multi-zillion dollar companies.

A multi-zillion dollar company criticizing someone working in a garage, as amatic notes, is the opposite of classy.

[rootlocus]

Where's the criticism? They merely pointed out (to non technical people) there's a long way to go to reach 99.9999% precision. They said nothing bad about Hotz achievement (except that it's relatively easy to achieve). They also corrected a mistake in the article regarding developing the autopilot in-house.

[scotty79]

"you got nothing" is kind of empty criticism

[rwmj]

It's rather like the rule of comedy: you're allowed to "punch up", but not down.

[agumonkey]

The reaction toward the article about geohot is largely positive in his favor. I wish him no harm, not even a buzzkill, but his words appeal to the iPhone jailbreak generation more than Elon Musk. They hold him as a genius that can do anything for to liberate the people while Tesla is yet another Big Corp. that ask too much for false value. Proof: someone just said he did it in his garage.

So kudos to him for making Tesla react, yes they were a bit needy, but they had to realign things a bit.