[willcipriano]

A couple years ago I was routinely down voted on here and other social media sites for making fun of Teslas emergency vehicle homing feature. Then Musk bought Twitter and I stopped hearing all the justifications for them and former defenders of Tesla started saying what I was saying years ago.

[acdha]

I can’t say anything about the down votes but from what I saw, I the criticism was always there but it grew over time as the stuff Musk promised customers drifted years and years further away, and his increasingly unhinged social media antics made it harder and harder to give him the benefit of the doubt. It felt a lot like what happened with President Bush where some people who really wanted democracy in the Middle East or Afghanistan kept coming up with these 5-dimensional chess theories based on the assumption that he shared their goal and must have some deeper plan where it all made sense, only to eventually accept that it was just as disorganized as it appeared on the surface.

[LargeTomato]

I'm sorry you got down voted. I hate down votes. Anyway...

These issues with Tesla aren't recent, they've been talked about for a decade at least.

[rsynnott]

While HN was rather _late_ to figure out that Naughty Old Mr Car was full of shit (people defended him for the Thailand diver thing!) it does finally seem to have figured it out. HN’s hive mind tends to be rather slow on the uptake, but gets there eventually; see also Bitcoin (the savior of the world on this website until 2019 or so).