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I think the input lag on the accelerator pedal is what kills it for me, though.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1766231831345541571.html
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1766231831345541571.html
Or the actual article that this twitter thread is promoting: https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/stories/2024/03/08/fisker-...
> More people subscribe to Brownlee's YouTube channel than to the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today combined. In the recorded call with the senior engineer, he called Brownlee "this kid". Should have taken "this kid" seriously earlier.
The caller is a "field service engineer" - which I have been myself across multiple industries, and even while running a crew of 6 people with very dangerous equipment and explosives, I never felt like I was doing much of particular import or really all that much responsibility compared to managing people directly and owning a company employing them.
How is it OK to record a private phone conversation and publish it publicly without consent?
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Or the actual article that this twitter thread is promoting: https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/stories/2024/03/08/fisker-...
The actual source would be this: "This is the Worst Car I've Ever Reviewed" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xWXRk3yaSw
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Marques Brownlee is a professional. Good product reviewers don’t accept money for good reviews.
A professional is someone who gets paid for his work.
I don't know how anyone would say he doesn't qualify for the "professional" moniker.
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A professional is someone who gets paid for his work.
Not by the people making the products they’re reviewing. Marques Brownlee runs an extremely popular YouTube channel; his money comes from YouTube ads and subscriptions and his reputation is everything just like any other product reviewer.
Just getting access to the press car fleet alone is worth something to a reviewer; if they can't get access to cars, they starve, especially if they can't get access before the embargo lifts; all the traffic will go to the reviewers who had pre-embargo access.
If they're honest and don't pull punches, and don't have the clout of say Top Gear - the car company's PR team will cut them off.
The way most reviewers get around being able to sleep at night is by focusing only on the things they like, and lie by omission. Any criticism is focused on subjective meaningless things like "this color is horrid."
For example: go read reviews of the VW Mk8 GTI, see how many reviewers tow VW's line about them "curing" understeer, and how many reviewers are honest about the press car being delivered with softer tread compound tires up front and harder compound tires in the back, to cheat and make the car handle more neutrally.
See how many mention that the press cars were EU models (normal) with a slew of features that won't be available in the US at all (not at all normal), like the fancier adaptive suspension system. See how many of them rave about how good the suspension is...a suspension the US didn't get!
It's so interesting to see how every tech bro has opinion on everything car related nowadays.