It's interesting that people on HN seem to take whatever Tesla says as the gospel truth. Where as if it had been an established manufacturer (IE runaway toyotas) there would be at least some skepticism until there was at least some objective and trusted third party analysis and reporting.
Yes, it says Tesla talked to the driver. It doesn't say the driver says there was an accident. Why did tesla include the quote from the dispatcher if that wasn't part of what they were basing their conclusion on?
They have a confirmation from the driver, but instead of saying that, they include speculation from the dispatcher? I don't buy that.
Nice try.. but the Reuters article uses the forum that this HN post links to as the source for the part about Tesla talking to the driver... that forum has a post in it made by Tesla.. And no where in the part where Tesla says they talked to the driver do they say the driver said there was an accident.
In an update to that post, Tesla then linked to the Reuters article as a source for the quote from the dispatcher (and quoted the part from the article with the dispatchers comment) and says it looks like it was an accident.
You can't attribute everything to the driver simply because Tesla exchanged a couple of (unknown, unquoted) words with him/her.
