[standyro]

Sadly, Subarus don't make headlines though. A Tesla does just about anything and it's local news and Facebook fodder. I don't get people texting me about typical ICE cars on fire after accidents ~ for some reason people think Tesla's are noteworthy in that regard? Like other cars don't have sketchy LKAS/cruise control systems or crash?

[tablespoon]

>> My 2019 Subaru Crosstrek has adaptive cruise control, and i've had it hit the brakes pretty hard when there's nothing in the way. Luckily it doesn't happen often.

> Sadly, Subarus don't make headlines though. A Tesla does just about anything and it's local news and Facebook fodder.

Why sadly? Subaru hasn't been loudly making empty promises about self-driving capability and hasn't been aggressively pushing not-fully-cooked self-driving software onto the road.

[olyjohn]

I think people should know that EVs come with the same risks as ICE cars. It's old news that ICE cars catch on fire. They've been around 100+ years in one form or another, why would we report on it? I mean there's a tank full of volatile fuel in the car.

EVs are new still. They're hyped and covered like crazy by the media in a lot of positive ways, so why should they not get equal press coverage when there is negative news? Once EVs hit a certain mass, they won't be novel anymore, and nobody will care.