Research Fail: Journalist Calls Out Site That Is Rating Autonomous Systems Without Understanding Them

Automotive YouTuber/entertainer Doug DeMuro recently wrote the dumbest, most misguided and irresponsible article I've read since Motor Trend's foolish Audi A8 story. That's saying a lot, because the landscape of idiotic self-driving media coverage is vast.

But DeMuro's example isn't funny this time, because it's not just people's wallets at stake. It's their lives.

DeMuro just published "7 Best Semi-Autonomous Systems Available Right Now" on Auto Trader—a publication that can afford to hire someone with actual technical knowledge to cover topics outside its wheelhouse—and it's everything wrong about legacy media's auto-tech content, all wrapped up in 1,000 words of press release "journalism".

TheSteve - 1/19/2018 1:01:21 PM

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Doug DeMuro is a "YouTube Personality." He's just a guy with a YouTube channel. You call that "journalism"?

If you want to decry shoddy journalism, then take a good look at Fox News. Or CNN, where a stupid Tweet from the prez -- something that's laughed at for 20 seconds on late-night comedy shows -- is debated for 45 minutes with a panel of "experts."

MDarringer - 1/19/2018 10:20:57 PM

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Yet another hate-drenched paragraph from Steve.

TheSteve - 1/20/2018 2:27:40 AM

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Matty, you remind me of those Carolinian Tiki Torch Nazi marchers, whose idea of "hate" is when someone doesn't like Nazis :-)

Readers know you're Alt.Right (as you so willingly demonstrate in your posts), so it's predictable that you'd get triggered by me not flattering the prez, or Fox and Friends.

MDarringer - 1/20/2018 9:25:27 AM

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So now you're copying and pasting your hate speech. #pathetic You need to take you're bullying and go away.

MDarringer - 1/20/2018 10:18:13 AM

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@joneshamilton Truer words were never spoken.