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Safety incidents at Tesla plant were higher than industry average in 2015

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Re: Safety incidents at Tesla plant were higher than industry average in 2015

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The title itself uses a basic framing technique intentionally written to fool you into a false conclusion. 1- "worse than slaughterhouses and sawmills" is more catchy than "better than X" (chose any X automaker) 2- Is the safety level of a slaughterhouses or a sawmill comparable to a car's ? They are things not in the same category, with different sophistication level and different purpose, how many times a day an av…

Furthermore, if Tesla indeed is very advanced in automation: how does this affect the kind of jobs done by humans?

It would make more sense to compare to the most simmilar companies.

Re: Safety incidents at Tesla plant were higher than industry average in 2015

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There have been numerous articles over the last few weeks, all in the same vain. And all with very click-baity negative headlines and articles that don't exactly seem like neutral reporting of an issue. I'd bet that there is some PR firm trying to drum up anti Tesla sentiments. (I'm not saying that there wasn't or isn't an issue at Tesla factories, but the kind of reporting stinks like PR campaign).

> I'd bet that there is some PR firm trying to drum up anti Tesla sentiments. Anything anti-Tesla is part of some PR conspiracy. Meanwhile, 10 vapid, fluff-pieces from Electrek or random Musk tweets show up on the front page every week. Have you considered that, perhaps, it's not all rainbows and unicorns with this company?

Maybe, you know, read the last line of my comment?

> (I'm not saying that there wasn't or isn't an issue at Tesla factories)

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