Data breach aside, It's easy to imagine that 4,000 safety complaints is damning evidence that Musk has been directing efforts at Tesla in the wrong direction; however, I'd also like to see some data about other car manufacturers on these topics. What's the data on a per-car-sold basis compared to something like Ford or Toyota? Hell, general motors recalled just shy of 3 million cars at one point because of saftey issues. A very quick google shows that Tesla has about 500k cars sold worldwide, 4,000 saftey complaints adds up to less than 1% of total cars. Taking absolute numbers with no additional context seems like an intellectually flimsy comparison. Especially when the reasons cited are to do with their entirely optional, experimental self driving software, not the actual car

Edit: as someone has pointed out, my very quick Google was perhaps a bit too quick, the number is actually closer to 3-4 million, not 500k - which, while an oopsie on my behalf, strengthens the 4,000 complaints being a very small % of total complaints vs vehicles sold