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Brandon Paddock
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Brandon Paddock writes As Brandon Sees It, a personal blog at brandonpaddock.substack.com about programming and business. Since 2024, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this Substack for its history of Tesla's robotaxi and Autopilot/Full Self-Driving claims. Commenters cite it as a source when correcting timelines in Tesla discussions.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- /p/a-brief-history-of-teslas-full-self2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-18
What Hacker News says?
Tesla aced another independent out-of-sample crash test [1]. The danluu article also mentions an iSeeCars report at the bottom that says that Teslas have a high amount of fatalities per mile driven [2]. However, while they claim to be using official US estimates of fatalities data, they normalized it with estimated mileage using unknown proprietary iSeeCars data: > iSeeCars analyzed fatality data from the U.S. Fatal…
Comment linking /p/are-teslas-the-most-or-least-safe
on “How do cars do in out-of-sample crash testing? (2020)”not the past 2 years - more than a decade on "robotaxi" ( https://brandonpaddock.substack.com/p/a-brief-history-of-tes... ) ... the bots came later...
Comment linking /p/a-brief-history-of-teslas-full-self
on “Tesla Stock Is Plunging Again. It Could Drop for a Ninth Straight Week”>sold people "full self driving" cars in 2014 Long FSD delays are no secret, but can we at least get the historical timeline correct? https://brandonpaddock.substack.com/p/a-brief-history-of-tes... In October 2014, at an event introducing the new dual-motor “D” variant of the Model S, Elon Musk surprised attendees by announcing the introduction of the “Autopilot” suite - an Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) w…
Comment linking /p/a-brief-history-of-teslas-full-self
on “Tesla brand damage is destroying used car value”