Trojan Tesla?
The real reporters in the Tesla anti-cult brigade are noticing Model 3s stored in random parking lots and vacant lots EVERYWHERE. Not just near the "factory" but all across the country.
Cranking the paranoid dial up to 11: What if the cars
really are autonomous? What if the scare headlines about Killer Robots and Intelligent Drones are correct? Placing groups of cars EVERYWHERE would be good strategy for a multifront attack. Classic guerrilla tactic. Pre-stage your troops stealthily, posing as trees and bushes; or in this case posing as defective inventory.
Later and more important thought: NYTimes is picking up the work of these real reporters, which is highly unusual... but of course NYTimes is NOT paying them, which is highly usual. Another example of the 'gig economy', the new version of
debt slavery or homesteader slavery. Persuade suckers that they are climbing the billionaire ladder, when the reality is total failure. The work gets done to benefit NYC, and NYC never pays for anything. As always NYC is the black hole of economics. Infinite input, zero output.