This is an excellent point.Was there ever a time when Ford wasn't selling junk? The "Fix Or Repair Daily" meme goes back at least to the 1980's and I suspect it goes back to the days of Henry himself.
I think you're right. I own a nice chunk of TSLA and I regard bad press as a wake-up call to Tesla to make improvements. Just because it's the best car on the road doesn't mean it's as good as it could be.
My feelings about Elon are mixed: he's said and done some unconscionable things, but he also made EVs main stream. He's a self-promoter and a liar, but he's responsible for a lot of progress. So I neither worship nor hate him.
All it takes is one mistake to kill you. A 1% mistake rate is far too high for FSD. As long as they call it "FSD" (which is supposed to mean full self-driving) then every mistake needs to be reported. When they stop calling it FSD and admit that they are many years away from a car that truly drives itself, then they can talk about the things it does well. EAP, for example, is not FSD and does not aspire to be FSD and will always be just a driver-assist. EAP works wonderfully well, when used as intended, which is driver-supervised partial self-driving. When they admit that this is what City Streets is, rather than calling it FSD, then the things it does well, rather than its mistakes, will become the news.
it should be called SSD
Supervised Self Driving