<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>baggachipz</author><text>&amp;gt; Tesla which is run by a delusional snake oil salesman who had a single hit with the Model S&lt;p&gt;Being that dismissive and willfully ignorant discredits your entire argument. A snake oil salesman produces nothing and hoodwinks people. I drive my &amp;quot;snake oil&amp;quot; every day and not only is it the best car I&amp;#x27;ve ever driven, it&amp;#x27;s the coolest thing I&amp;#x27;ve ever owned. I routinely watch his &amp;quot;snake oil&amp;quot; launch huge payloads to orbit and land the booster(s) autonomously for cheap re-use. Hate the guy personally if you want, but slander like yours is simply holding back progress.</text><parent_chain><item><author>skywhopper</author><text>This has been obvious all along to anyone who has ever driven or used a computer before and thought about the reality for more than a couple of minutes. But the press and VCs bought into the hype from the likes of Uber who needed to keep generating huge new investment to stay afloat and Tesla which is run by a delusional snake oil salesman who had a single hit with the Model S.&lt;p&gt;The shocking examples of crazy unexpected behavior in the article like street sweepers that do exactly what they are supposed to be doing and cyclists who don’t follow traffic rules blow my mind. Next we’ll learn that some streets have poorly painted lines or that road construction exists or that most human drivers exceed posted speed limits or that there is weather other than sunny and clear.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Despite High Hopes, Self-Driving Cars Are ‘Way in the Future’</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/business/self-driving-autonomous-cars.html</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>treespace8</author><text>I know this is far out there. But I believe the problem of fully autonomous anything via software is fundamentally impossible. The divide between analog and digital is just too big.&lt;p&gt;Humans are underrated.</text><parent_chain><item><author>skywhopper</author><text>This has been obvious all along to anyone who has ever driven or used a computer before and thought about the reality for more than a couple of minutes. But the press and VCs bought into the hype from the likes of Uber who needed to keep generating huge new investment to stay afloat and Tesla which is run by a delusional snake oil salesman who had a single hit with the Model S.&lt;p&gt;The shocking examples of crazy unexpected behavior in the article like street sweepers that do exactly what they are supposed to be doing and cyclists who don’t follow traffic rules blow my mind. Next we’ll learn that some streets have poorly painted lines or that road construction exists or that most human drivers exceed posted speed limits or that there is weather other than sunny and clear.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Despite High Hopes, Self-Driving Cars Are ‘Way in the Future’</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/business/self-driving-autonomous-cars.html</url></story>