There are thousands of historic hackernews news items from MotherJones, which has a long history of serious news reporting, and this seems to be researched reporting as well.
While I'm not sure exactly how we're supposed to filter out certain news sources, I would not for a moment say MotherJones has a sterling track record of "serious news reporting." In this case, in particular, their analysis is ridiculous.
They claim that the Cybertruck, which was chronically delayed, was actually "rushed to market" to "beat competition," and use that to make a comparison to a flawed vehicle from the 70s. Flawed because it had a misplaced gas tank. Nowhere in this do they cite any evidence that the Cybertruck was indeed rushed, nor do they support any claim that the Cybertruck might have a misplaced... battery.
Then they go on, incorrectly (which they've since corrected), to claim the vehicle hasn't been crash-tested. It has. But to counteract that reality, the author points out that Tesla hasn't released any of its own safety data. I'm not aware of any car company releasing private safety data — nor would I put any stock in such data. That's exactly why we have independent regulators.
I know everyone has bills to pay, MotherJones included. I understand "Elon's Cybertrucks" is just too juicy a headline not to publish. But please at least try to make a coherant argument next time.
I'm sorry, correcting a story with recent factual information doesn't strike me as undermining the fundamental credibility of a source. Given that they correctly source and attribute the claim that it wasn't tested to a recent article that was accurate at its time of publication.
And given that Tesla did not respond to their request for comment on the data, nor did the national highway safety administraiton, who was supposed to correct them, how?
> In a classic Mother Jones cover story from 1977, reporter Mark Dowie spent six months investigating the deadly Ford Pintos and found that the company rushed to create and distribute the cars to beat the competition
I don't know how they can be clearer that that is talking about the development of the Ford Pinto, not the cybertruck.
"I've never heard of it, and I don't like what they said"
See also the similar argument "The media isn't reporting on this thing that they are in fact reporting on, but none of my friends on Facebook are sharing with me"
I cannot understand the basis of your argument.