[george-in-sd]

The author is not a reporter but the VP at the ARC Advisory Group. Here are their clients : https://www.arcweb.com/about/clients. (Exxon, BP, Mobile, Shell, etc. )

[botanical]

This article is just reporting on these findings:

https://www.lendingtree.com/insurance/brand-incidents-study/

I don't know why you would seemingly discredit the messenger but eschew from the main point that Tesla drivers have the highest accident rate.

[geysersam]

Why is the VP of a consulting company writing articles reporting on smallish studies made by car lenders? Don't you find that odd?

The results should of course be taken for what they are, but the motives of the author are not insignificant.

[george-in-sd]

I think it's relevant information in this case. If you saw a blog post on exxon.com saying Teslas are dangerous it would never be considered newsworthy and never make to YC.

ARC is paid by oil companies to write articles that make their position appear to be newsworthy. They are very upfront about article generation: http//www.arcweb.com/consulting-services/marketing-communications

[DoesntMatter22]

Nothing to see here