I see Jeremy Clarkson is having a bad day

[Micael]

Although for other businesses this might have been quite negative as PR goes, but in his case it’s somehow remarkably on brand.

[Johnnie Lyle]

Certainly can’t say they’re indifferent about the safety of their customers.

[kdahm]

Brutal honesty as a PR move. It'll never catch on.

It is refreshing to see a company say, "We fucked up. Here's how we're fixing it." It'd be better if it wasn't someone from whom this straightforwardness could be expected.

[Nik_SpeakerToCats]

Speaking of brutal honesty, he has a fun you-tube of his epic adventure to recharge his Tesla after the car battery went flat during long Covid lay-up...

Not the very big 'motive' battery, mind, as was plugged into wall charge-point, but the small, 'trad' all-the-rest one. Undersized, of course, of course, as does not have to spin starter motor in mid-winter...

You would think that it would be trickle-charged automatically, but no. Tesla's coders over-looked this possibility. Soon as the 'motive' battery first reached capacity, the 'car' battery stopped taking 'regular' charge, but did not re-start charging when its voltage dropped, dropped, dropped...

Without which, he could not unlock car, open 'frunk' to access this battery etc etc etc.

So, there were a pair of 'rip-cords' hidden under rims of wheel arches, then a panel to remove, then another and another until you got to the 'ground' end of battery. Then another panel, then an air-con duct etc etc to get to the 'hot' end...

Finally, finally, he could affix trickle charger to perp, hope that control system BIOS had not locked-up or wiped itself...

As he said, soon as function restored, he was adding a remote feed-point for trickle-charging...

I suspect that he would have cheerfully sentenced those irresponsible coders & algorithm checkers to several days in his manor's Medieval stocks-- After they'd been tractor-dragged by their ankles around farm behind silage-spreader...