“I don’t think people could hold there more than five minutes in this water, especially with clothes on,” he added. It was very good luck this floating sauna was nearby.”
The sauna boat happened to drift by soon after the Tesla ended up in the water, Oslo police said.
Photos show people on the vessel with towels around their waists pulling the passengers out of the water.
“One of the guests came running and told me a car had landed in the water. I accelerated to full speed in the direction of the people,” the sauna boat’s skipper, Nicholay Nordahl, told Norwegian newspaper VG.
“With the help of two guests, we pulled them up. They were able to warm up in the sauna,” he added.
I expected another story about a Tesla self-driving passengers to their doom. Instead, “the driver accidentally hit the gas pedal”, so it being a Tesla is really an irrelevant detail. Would the headline have read “Hyundai plunges into Norway fjord…” if it were a different car.
I downvoted because of this. I don’t like Tesla. But I hate this click baiting and lying to tarnish a reputation. Let them do it themselves. They are doing a good enough job.
It’s also the boy-who-cried-wolf syndrome. When you make shit up all the time, no one is going to care when it actually matters.
Self-driving (er, “”self””-driving) didn’t cross my mind actually. I read:
I take your point that the benefits of being able to make these assumptions may not outweigh the downside of potentially misleading people on the potential self-driving aspect.
Where’s the lie
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If the car went in due to driver error, why mention the make of the car in the title?
NYPost is a shitty propaganda outlet by design. Not just because I’m to the left so I hate it. It’s literally the purpose of the site.
So yes, this article ONLY exists to trigger the thought of “electric car bad” in their readers.
The sauna boat is the factor
Yeah, I’d definitely have posted it no matter the make of car.
Yeah but would the headline have mentioned the make in that case?
Probably not. A subeditor knows how to get extra clicks.
What a fascinating idea. The story should be entirely about the sauna boat
3 years ago, during peak Autopilot hype, the media absolutely would have plastered “AUTOPILOT FAIL???” all over the headlines. With a quiet retraction the next day with the driver admitting to a manual mistake.
I remember there was one big story about a Tesla that wrapped itself around a tree, caught fire, and occupants died. Instant blame on “Autopilot kills” and “EVs dangerous!!!” even though everyone who actually looked at the facts knew that autopilot won’t even activate on that street and it wouldn’t automatically go that fast.
A few weeks later post-autopsy, turns out it was a drunk dude showing off his car to his drunk friend, treated a residential road as a drag strip, with predictable results.
Its an electric car thing, they have much higher acceleration than most people are used to so people crash them like this.