Why is Tesla’s response to EVERYTHING just “blame the driver”?

Why is this a story?

Tesla has a sometimes defensive relationship with owners making claims about its cars getting into crashes.

Jim Fixx disagrees.

[I]t was heartbreaking to see that some of our users were upset to learn about how we monetize our free service.

Don’t question god when he wants to DP you.

My brother-in-law canceled a recent flight on United and rebooked on... I want to say American, but it might have been Southwest. After the incident with the doctor. I’ve got a trip coming up in August that I haven’t booked yet, and I will not even consider United now. Perhaps I won’t consider American, depending on…

That said if it’s good enough, the notion of which strains the boundaries of credulity, then I’d probably support it.

It’s vastly more complicated than that

That’s how science works. You start with what you think is a predictable and likely outcome, then you test it anyway.

Your bet? So you don’t know? You’re just guessing.

There is no way to extract power from the movement of a car, without ACTUALLY extracting energy from the vehicle.

Everyone on the internet is a fucking engineer. Didn’t you know that?

Ah, I gotcha. Yep, I have nothing but undying sympathy for that woman.

The lady in Midtown saying that on 9/12? I understand. The lady in Midtown saying that yesterday? To hell with her racist ass.

If you lived and/or worked in New York City at that time, I give you a pass on anything you said on 9/11, or for a few days immediately after. You just had two fucking buildings dropped on you. You get a pass because tensions were high, you didn’t know what was coming next, and it was a terrifying place to be. I get…

Why would they get flack for doing that? Especially since it’s canon in-comics.

I try to keep a stable of domains 10 years out just as a digital best practice. I’m anal about domain real estate because I used to work for Network Solutions / Verisign back before the dot-com crash. I picked up 2028 (late) as a matter of simple housekeeping BEFORE Jason called to tell me we were shutting the…

People who always wear seat belts, and buckle in small children as a matter of habit, sometimes allow the family dog to wander freely around the car, or let it sit on the driver’s lap and hang its head out the window.

You do good work, Beth Skwarecki. Good work.