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by slg 1287 days ago
Because very few people will know what you are talking about if you go up to a random person and ask them about Lada or BYD.

Musk is an egomaniacal idiot that most of us dislike. There are countless valid reasons to dislike Tesla as a company and the cars they make. However, that shouldn't cause people to overthink things when their name is simply being used as shorthand as it clearly is in this instance.

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> Because very few people will know what you are talking about if you go up to a random person and ask them about Lada or BYD.

This is why parent said only innovation Tesla has managed is name recognition.