The real news about Tesla is their engineering quality has gotten worse over time, with their fatalities going up significantly.

Newer versions of Elon Musk’s engineering culture designs are far, far worse than earlier ones. This is extremely important to recognize.

There is no reason to believe Tesla knows how to get better, how to learn from mistakes, because a decade of data shows their delivery culture is mostly fraud tightly controlled by a documented serial liar.

SpaceX is shaping up to be even worse.

Today’s launch explosion is a very good reminder of how the Soviet N1 program looked like a failure to rational observers, no matter what the top-down centrally-controlled party boss called success.

As you can see from the picture above, the N1 had a lot of engines. Whereas the Saturn V was powered by only five enormous engines, the N1 had thirty little ones. 24 of them formed a ring around the outside of Block A, the name for the first stage, with six placed in the center to provide roll control. The thinking was that if one of these small little engines was good, then strapping them all together would be great. This idea went horribly wrong though.

Uh-huh. History, folks. It’s important. Really important.

Of course people will say everything is different. Physics isn’t what it was in the 1970s. But that attitude is mostly nonsense. Like saying political science isn’t what it was in the 1970s. Elon Musk thinking like a dictator is actually worse with modern computers than if he still put pen to paper.

SpaceX is therefore arguably on a worse trajectory than even the Soviet N1 catastrophes. SpaceX has to prove there are differences enough from the N1 program to prevent disasters, instead of simply repeating old mistakes and labeling everything “success” in a participation medal.

Like, who thought SpaceX doesn’t need parachutes or launch escape capabilites? Survival is the objective, not just taking as much money as possible from people before burning them to death (Holocaust reference, yeah).

Of course people will say huge failure doesn’t matter to some nation-state or billionaire. That is just flat wrong. Failures matter the most here.

US space industry funding drops 53% in Q1, hitting 8-year low

Money talks. Funding shortages reflect pain, like the black hole of Cold War spending that Gorbachev famously recognized and acted upon to stop losses.

Elon Musk often whines about how much he worries about losing money. And SpaceX delays launches, so they clearly act like they care until they pretend like they don’t.

Or more to the point…

SpaceX’s Next-Gen Starlink Satellites Have Started Falling From Space. The first batch of Elon Musk’s upgraded Starlink internet satellites experienced issues shortly after launching last month.

SpaceX reads to me like a restart of the South African space program under apartheid. You know, a racist mission to explode rockets on Earth to kill people here instead of Mars. But seriously, where do you think Elon Musk came up with his rather specific ideas for Starlink?

…between 1963-1993, South Africa’s apartheid ancien regime started various missile projects. A secret military space launcher programme aimed at orbiting reconnaissance satellites…

Anyway, I’m old enough to have worked at NASA and seen things done very differently to a Soviet-like cult of personality under Elon Musk. It’s sad to see anyone put any trust into anything his heavily censored star-struck minions are flailing and failing around with.

The infamous prince of apartheid emerald-mining already has a shameful legacy — the many graveyards of innocent people killed by his apparent flagrant disregard for human life.

The new iSeeCars recall analysis is unmistakably damning for Tesla.

Industry experts have forever said Elon Musk doesn’t have a clue about making cars, such that his penny-pinching shortcuts put everyone on the road in danger. Now the data confirms such warnings.

First, the author isn’t messing around with dumb symantic games for the word “recall”.

Even though safety recalls that have OTA fixes are more convenient to repair, it should be noted that all safety recalls are issued for the same reason: The NHTSA conducted an analysis of complaints, opened an investigation, and identified a safety-related defect that violates its vehicle safety standards.

BOOM!

Talk about wiping the floor with Tesla. That’s the most direct thrashing I have seen of the asinine suggestion by their CEO that variations in method, timing or place of repair make any difference to any word used to notify owners of the need for repair.

Second, Tesla’s only four models all landed within the top five spots for WORST recall rates.

Over SIXTY safety call backs in 30 years is like the opposite of freedom. SIX ZERO. Who wants to waste their life like this, assuming they can even stay alive, with a car constantly being repaired?

Fix Or Repair Daily was what we used to call the Nazi-loving FORD. Apparently Tesla management loves Nazism even more than that? Oh, and hello Porsche. Did Nazi you.

But seriously, this chart basically shows a Tesla model S that sells the least — dated design that hasn’t been updated in over a decade — ranks best. Later models are significantly worse, suggesting the best of Tesla is long gone, such that any new cars they introduce will be even worse than SIXTY.

Model S 2012
Model X 2015
Model 3 2017
Model Y 2020

Already we see the very late and unsafe half-baked “concept truck” has been banned by regulators for dumb design failures, and the very late half-baked “concept Semi” has screen and brake failures grounding all the first dozen made. Worse and worse.

Third, the author doesn’t mince words on the extremely poor build quality of Tesla being a serious long-term problem.

Most vehicles behave like the Toyota Camry -– most of their recalls are issued when they are first introduced, with a rapid decline after 1-3 years. But some cars, like the Tesla Model S, see a pattern of ongoing recalls, or even an increasing number of recalls, as time passes. Owners of vehicles with that pattern will continue to face recall hassles for years after they acquire their car.”

Tesla is not most vehicles. It’s a far inferior brand according to the data. Regardless of how fixes are delivered, the sheer volume of predicted recalls yet again confirms nobody should buy a Tesla.

Elon Musk recently signed a letter calling for a six-month pause on development of all artificial intelligence technology [while at the same time doing the opposite and starting new projects on] a number of expensive computers from Nvidia in his AI arms race with Google and OpenAI.

Tesla relies on AI, so yeah, stop Tesla development for six months and then never let them restart.

Elon Musk telling everyone to stop AI really because he wants to keep going… to be the first to do the worst things with it, is exactly why America should ban Tesla.

You can’t deny at this point his car is nothing more than an experiment in gross negligence, to see how far fraud can go.

A U.S. Senate investigation says the bank has continued hiding money stolen from victims of Nazism.

In the latest Senate findings, 70 Credit Suisse accounts with plausible links to Nazis in Argentina were opened after 1945 and at least 14 stayed open until the 2000s, including some as recently as 2020, according to the investigators’ reports.

The screen capture of a video (intersection approach starting at 9:00) shows clearly that Tesla’s bug-riddled software suddenly tries to veer left into the path of an oncoming truck (9:05), even though the route planner next to it has only a forward indicator.

If you blinked you might have missed that unexpected blue left arrow… and you’d perhaps then be dead. It’s unmistakable how this driver has less than a second to grab the wheel and force his Tesla back into its proper course and lane (9:06).

Why did version ELEVEN of software veer sharp left on a forward route with very obvious oncoming hazards?

Full video:

One theory seems to be after Elon Musk’s 2016 rushed demand that Tesla will depend on radar for safety, followed by Elon Musk’s 2021 rushed demand that Tesla will not use radar at all, he built a toxic culture of quality implosions and caused safety to decline with later models. This is the result of engineers being overruled by an erratic CEO’s “shiny-object” fantasy vision.

…system is randomly too conservative or too aggressive, i.e, can’t map out the surrounding correctly… I trust it as much as I trust R Kelly at a youth group.

The opposite of trust, the inverse of ethics. When you see any Tesla on the road, be prepared for it to assault others unpredictably. It’s a good reminder how society foolishly relies on Tesla drivers knowing, let alone wanting, to be risk adverse.