I worked automotive retail 15 years. You give those customers what they want and move on to the ones who aren’t combative and are open to your suggestions. Or you know, you could argue with someone trying to give you money and be miserable I guess, but that doesn’t seem like the best course of action in a retail…

The entire concept of “predicted reliability score” is stupid. It is kinda like stereotyping people based on their skin color...

They’re considered credible because they are credible, I think. It’s entirely possible there are some marks on their record in the past that I don’t know about though.
I don’t think their or US News’s survey based approaches are bullshit. They have imperfect data, because that’s what it’s easy to get. Then they analyze…

But it’s a different design, a different factory, a different production methodology, a different set of workers...

CR has been doing predicted reliability scores since there was dialup (and probably before). Clickbait didn’t exist when they started doing it. And they don’t only do it with Teslas or even cars for that matter. You are imagining it is a targeted practice. It is not.

It’s more akin to having seen multiple movies by a particular director and having spoken to a few people that have seen the new movie, and making an informed estimate as to what your thoughts would be on it based upon this information.

Besides the obvious snark, they really had fun with this...

It’s a “predicted reliability score.” It is a guesstimate based on other products from the manufacturer. It’s as close as one car get under the circumstances. It’s hardly stupid and it is hardly definitive hence the word “predicted.”

Please defend that, I look forward to it.

The artist begins with the Sun as the center. Yet the point of view is from far above that presumed center point.

This is a picture of the observable universe, so we have to be at the center. If you placed some other galaxy at the center, there would 1) be a big chunk missing at the edge, and 2) no detail at the central region.

I suppose not much different from Earth maps intended to represent mankind but center on the country that created it.

If the universe is infinite, then the only real position to put ourselves is the centre when we’re discussing the known universe. We can see approximately the same distance with our telescopes in all directions, so if we’re representing what is known then that would automatically place us in the very middle.

Conceited or not, it makes more sense than making the center some random location which would be an unrecognizable position.