The Tesla brand continues to plummet in trust and safety.

To us, this update seems clearly tailored to stave off further government action for the time being while keeping “nags” to a minimum, not to reduce driver distraction and improve safety. Declining to publicize the recall and bundling it with more than a dozen other features while burying it at the bottom of the list suggests an intent to hide the information from owners. The fact we were able to look at a phone for more than 2 and a half minutes at 70 mph while using Autosteer post-recall is damning.

The highway patrol report discusses loss of control related to oversteer on a clear and dry road, December 29, 2023.

According to a preliminary report from the Wyoming Highway Patrol, a Tesla Model Y was traveling west near Manville on US 18/US 20 when it steered right toward the edge of the roadway and overcorrected back to the left. As the Tesla crossed both lanes of traffic before steering sharply back to the right, an eastbound Ram 3500 combination braked hard and steered left to avoid the Tesla. The front of the Ram hit the rear driver-side door of the Tesla, causing it to spin counter-clockwise and exit the north edge of the roadway.

Just the other day I was having dinner near two men who were drinking heavily and smoking while they loudly claimed they didn’t believe in any of the growing consensus of science.

…a clear trend: the more shots in your arm before your first bout with COVID, the less likely you are to get long COVID. One meta-analysis of 24 studies published in October, for example, found that people who’d had three doses of the COVID vaccine were 68.7 percent less likely to develop long COVID compared with those who were unvaccinated. “This is really impressive,” says Alexandre Marra, a medical researcher at the Albert Einstein Israelite Hospital in Brazil and the lead author of the study. “Booster doses make a difference in long COVID.”

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A study published in November in the BMJ found that a single COVID vaccine dose reduced the risk of long COVID by 21 percent, two doses reduced it by 59 percent and three or more doses reduced it by 73 percent. Vaccine effectiveness clearly climbed with each successive dose. “I was surprised that we saw such a clear dose response,” says Fredrik Nyberg, an epidemiologist at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and one of the co-authors of the study. “The more doses you had in your body before your first infection, the better.” That lines up with the findings of several new studies, which similarly show this ladderlike benefit.

Smoking. In 2023. Of course someone puffing on cancer in public would say they disbelieve overwhelmingly consistent science about vaccination benefits. They are still smoking, as if that health ship hadn’t sailed *cough* more than 50 years ago *cough*.

Smoking bans really got underway to protect service workers from being in an unfairly imposed cancerous workplace. So this topic about vaccination success comes back to whether a careless uneducated Typhoid Mary should be reasonably/proportionally restricted from causing harm to society, more than any need to give some airtime let alone authority to whatever such a Mary disbelieves.

Do you remember this “capability” hoopla posted online by the fraud department of Tesla?

ALL CAPS IS VERY LOUD. Notably it doesn’t say anything about the tires.

So people are expected to actually drive the silly Cybertruck?

Like drive one in the real world?

Ok, let’s see what’s being reported… @ramseyackad on Facebook just posted this video (which he credits to an unapologetic right-wing extremist account @6sixmiked) for all to see:

Behold! A true truck!😂 My buddy @6sixmiked caught this CyberJunk slippin. “I’ll call Elon, he’ll get you out”😆 Don’t get me started on this🙄 What do you think?👇🏽

GO ANYWHERE. TACKLE ANYTHING. Except snow in a driveway.

It reminds me of the days of 1999 when British Rail said trains were getting stuck because engineers weren’t prepared for the “wrong type of snow“.

Many are saying the Cybertruck has the wrong type of travel? No. Clearance? No… wait for it… TIRES.

Yeah, go ahead and change those “M+S” (Mud and Snow) tires to something else, as if you didn’t think of that when you saw a forecast for snow and looked at the tread pattern. I’ll wait.