On: Hertz accelerates sales of Tesla vehicles as value crumbles

[ghaff]

Perhaps. But it was pretty obvious at the time that they were wild lies. Not excusing Tesla but one would hope that very well-paid execs would get it--but that may be optimistic.

[nashashmi → ghaff]

Well paid executives learned to rely on vendor statements and vendor litigation. They don't question it. If you offer them a magic wheel, they will buy your magic wheel (after you have the right bonding and insurance backings).

[rvnx → ghaff]

And the practice shows that if you have billions it's totally ok to lie or to infringe copyright (e.g. large AI companies, or search engines).

It's only a problem if you are poor.

[marcosdumay → ghaff]

Oh, yes. It was blatant incompetence.

But more than one part can be guilty.