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Comment by alvis | Hacker News Reader

One of the best technology companies (let's assume it's) cannot maintain its site with modern technology. How can I trust them?

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I do not trust Tesla because of the apparent instability of its owner, but not because its website does not use the most bleeding edge web technology. The website works and I see no information of any security flaws. This is what matters.

Does Elon personally drive every Tesla? Or do you think Tesla engineers will follow an insane directive knowing it would put peoples lives at risk and not push back or straight up walk off the job?

> Or do you think Tesla engineers will follow an insane directive knowing it would put peoples lives at risk and not push back or straight up walk off the job?

By this logic, it's actually impossible for a company to ever do anything wrong.

> do you think Tesla engineers will follow an insane directive knowing it would put peoples lives at risk and not push back

Have you seen what remains of Twitters engineers? All of them are fanboys that think Musk can do no wrong. Of course they’d do whatever the man says.

I have to imagine the same is true for Tesla.

They build cars and batteries, not websites.

Cars which are primarily controlled via software and interact with hundreds of web services.

TV makers make TVs which are controlled via software and interact with hundreds of web services. But they're often, well, _not great_ at the web services bit: https://www.theregister.com/2015/02/17/samsung_smart_tv_priv...

I am glad my TV will not accelerate uncontrollably out of my room if a web request times out.

I am sure the main corporate website isn't one of those.

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