These people haven't found any individual self identity.

An attack on the brand is an attack on them. Reminds me of the people who made Stars Wars their meaning and crumbled when a certain trilogy didn't hold up.

The styrofoam wall had a pre-cut hole to weaken it, and some people are using it as a gotcha proving the video was faked. It would be funny if it wasn't so pathetic.

They're mad at themselves and taking it out on others.

Always be wary of people who are angered by facts.

To be fair, and ugh, I hate to have to stand up for these assholes, but...

To be fair, their claim is that the video was a lie and that the results were manufactured. They believe that Teslas are actually safe and that Rober was doing some kind of Elon Musk takedown trying to profit off the shares getting tanked and promote a rival company.

They actually do have a little bit of evidence for those claims:

1. The wall changes between different camera angles. In some angles the wall is simply something painted on canvas. In other angles it's a solid styrofoam wall.
2. The inside the car view in the YouTube video doesn't make it clear that autopilot mode is engaged.
3. Mark Rober chose to use Autopilot mode rather than so-called Full Self Driving.

But, he was interviewed about this, and he provided additional footage to clear up what happened.

1. They did the experiment twice, once with a canvas wall, then a few weeks later with a styrofoam wall. The car smashed right into the wall the first time, but it wasn't very dramatic because the canvas just blew out of the way. They wanted a more dramatic video for YouTube, so they did it again with a styrofoam wall so you could see the wall getting smashed. This included pre-weakening the wall so that when the car hit it, it smashed a dramatic Looney-Tunes looking hole in the wall. When they made the final video, they included various cuts from both the first and second attempts. The car hit the wall both times, but it wasn't just one single hit like it was shown in the video.

2. There's apparently a "rainbow" path shown when the car is in Autopilot mode. [RAinbows1?!? DEI!?!?!?!] In the cut they posted to YouTube, you couldn't see this rainbow path. But, Rober posted a longer cut of the car hitting the wall where it was visible. So, it wasn't that autopilot was off, but in the original YouTube video you couldn't tell.

3. He used Autopilot mode because from his understanding (as a Tesla owner (this was his personal vehicle being tested)), Full Self Driving requires you to enter a destination address. He just wanted to drive down a closed highway at high speed, so he used Autopilot instead. In his understanding as a Tesla owner and engineer, there would be no difference in how the car dealt with obstacles in autopilot mode vs. full self driving, but he admitted that he hadn't tested it, so it's possible that so-called Full Self-Driving would have handled things differently.

Anyhow, these rabid MAGA Elon Fanboys did pick up on some minor inconsistencies in his original video. Rober apprently didn't realize what a firestorm he was wading into. His intention was to make a video about how cool LIDAR is, but with a cool scene of a car smashing through a wall as the hook. He'd apparently been planning and filming the video for half a year, and he claims it just happened to get released right at the height of the time when Teslas are getting firebombed.

me waving a little handheld flag on a tiny pole that just says "Brand loyalty"

........what? No medal???