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by josecurioso 2991 days ago
The reason tesla needs to make this kind of statements is very simple: Guy in a renault has this accident and it is just routine, renault won't see their shares fall and there will be next to no coverage of the incident. In the case of tesla any accident gets to the front page of reddit, trends in twitter, is shared in facebook, let alone printed on newspapers, these statements are needed to fight that amount of bad PR.
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saagarjha 2991 days ago
Well, Renault doesn't have self driving technology that they're touting as "autonomous†".

†While the driver continues to pay attention and basically does everything they need to do while driving, without actually performing any actions

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chaboud 2991 days ago
Well, to be fair, if someone in the US is able to find a running Renault that can go faster than 30mph under its own power, it's pretty exceptional.

I think that Tesla's response is tone-deaf and ill-advised. I'm not presently a Tesla shareholder, but I do have a Model 3 reservation coming up soon.

Guess which one of those this public statement makes me want to change...

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semi-extrinsic 2991 days ago
I think this classic Renault will do a little over 30mph.

https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/cars-for-sale/renault/r...

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chaboud 2991 days ago
There was one of these tooling around the campsites at Le Mans a few years ago (probably there every year). Lamborghinis, Ferraris, TVRs. No. The R5 Turbo got all of the crowds. It was awesome.

Nonetheless, I haven’t seen a Renault in the US, in person, in a few years.

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