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by Veserv 11 days ago
Really, your first instinct is: "The journalists are engaging in a baseless smear campaign."

The video evidence clearly demonstrates it engaging in a clearly signed illegal maneuver that it should never have even begun. Furthermore, your mischaracterization of the video is significant. The car straightens out having crossed the pedestrian walkway clearly indicated on the dash screen. The dash screen clearly indicates the vehicle intending to continue to travel on the bike-only road.

In addition, this is Tesla's own official curated video [1]. Tesla is the one who decided that failure to obey clearly indicated signs and engaging in a illegal maneuver is the best representation of their product they could muster.

[1] https://x.com/teslaeurope/status/2064350518907167166

2 comments

No, it was not my instinct.
Unfortunately journalists do engage in baseless smear campaigns? This seems like a legitimate concern
You may be not wrong but it literally didn't cross my mind. I just didn't notice the car going into the lane in the video after watching it first 3 times. The guy who replied to me with a wall of text just wants to go off topic.
And companies engage in far more shady things than they get "smeared" for in the press.

Jeez, AI auto response agents are going to bury the world in astroturf