Tesla Trustworthiness Debate

Cluster focuses on debates about Tesla's honesty in PR statements, safety claims, and responses to media criticism, with users accusing Tesla of lying or misleading while others defend against perceived media bias.

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Sample Comments

Spooky23 Apr 20, 2016 View on HN

It's probably PR fed to the author by Tesla.

mlindner Nov 13, 2021 View on HN

More fake news from the verge on Tesla. They are well known for this at this point.

clouddrover Feb 3, 2024 View on HN

You're not just correcting people. You're saying things like "irrational Tesla haters" and "upvoters bring almost every negative Tesla story and hit piece on to the front page" and "you only hear about this one because it's Tesla".That's less "noticing things" and more paranoia. And paranoia about something as trivial as a car brand. That is a significant loss of perspective.An obvious problem with Tesla is its lack of comm

dustingetz Apr 12, 2018 View on HN

Tesla has world-class PR, let's assume they're saying the right thing. What circumstances might they be facing to which this message is a correct response?

zie Dec 19, 2025 View on HN

Maybe? But good luck proving it.Tesla tends to only leak that stuff when they look bad. It's not like they are necessarily outright lying, they are just telling their version of the truth....For the record, I'm not condoning this behaviour.

culi Jan 10, 2023 View on HN

Given Tesla's now well-documented history of lying about their cars' safety,[0-6] it's kind of alarming to see, what's basically an ad directly from a brand, being posted to the front page of HN[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/08&#

HatchedLake721 Jul 23, 2021 View on HN

Are you suggesting Tesla is lying?

grillvogel Jul 1, 2016 View on HN

tesla press release may not be the most trustworthy source in this case

asylteltine Nov 30, 2023 View on HN

Probably because Tesla lies about their stats like actual range

coding123 Oct 25, 2023 View on HN

Aren't there more incidents with Tesla? Where's a similar statement for Tesla?