"There is strong conviction on both sides. More than strong. There's cultish convictions on both sides," Dusaniwsky says. "It's almost like a college football game ... people are just crazy fans and it doesn't matter what the team does.
Yeah, except once side believes in innovation and a better future, the others believe in whatever conspiracy they can conjure on any given day.
Seriously, these claims of fraud are just ridiculous, even if there were some accounting tricks in the books (name me a company that doesn't do that), they don't amount to fraud - the fact that Tesla will likely sell over half a million cars this year is the proof.
And Autopilot being "near homicidal" - what universe do these people live in? Sure it's dangerous if you tape an orange to the wheel and climb in the back seat, but try doing that with another car without Autopilot (put a brick on the gas pedal) and report back to me on how it went, if you can...
Then we have the while "surviving on subsidy" nonsense, which completely fails to address the fact that fossil fuels receive much higher subsidies than EV's and renewables.
Any normal, rational human being would understand this. I'm pretty sure that the shorties can't all be *that* stupid, which just leads me once again to the conclusion that the ring-leaders are funded by nefarious interests.
Still, short term pain some days, long term will increase out profits, more fool them.
