A settlement announcement buries the lede, that public ownership exposed Lyft and Uber for being far less safe than Taxis.

Shareholders claimed that Lyft’s reputation suffered from the company’s inadequate training and background checks for drivers, including those with histories of sexual misconduct. They also said Lyft concealed the shortfalls before its March 2019 initial public offering…

Lyft has said the lawsuit was the last shareholder case arising from the IPO. Through Tuesday, Lyft’s share price had fallen 83% since the offering. Lyft shares were down 4% on Wednesday.

Many ride-share passengers have also accused Uber drivers of sexual assault. More than 300 lawsuits against Uber alleging such conduct have been combined into a federal class action pending in San Francisco. The number of plaintiffs could reach the thousands.

Imagine if the press had accurately portrayed Lyft and Uber as unsafe from their beginning, which wasn’t hard to figure out.

I used to live a block from Lyft HQ and wander into their offices to admire the giant “about us” mural they painted.

Basically Lyft was self-admittedly started by two young white guys who stole the name and concept of safety from a vacation they took to Southern Africa (admiring an Apartheid-derived parental Ride-Share “lift” for white children to avoid Black ones). The failed huge furry pink moustache should have been a tell. So how did anyone ever really think their move-fast ignore-history VC-run implementation would end well?

If you’ve watched Tesla crashes as much as I have, you see a pattern of them heading straight and blind into a pole, over and over and over again.

About 10.30pm Thursday 25 July emergency services were called to the roundabout at the intersection of Glynburn and Waterfall Terrace after reports a Tesla had left the road and crashed into a stobie pole.

It seems to be a software design flaw, especially when you consider the CEO has fraudulently touted “collision avoidance” capabilities since 2016 that have never arrived.

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Total Recall After Waymo Robot Taxi Crashes Into Pole

It’s undeniable that Tesla are a danger to children. In yet another sudden “veered” case, where “driverless” design failures are suspected, a toddler has been seriously injured.

Officials reported responding to a call at 4:31 p.m. regarding a single-car crash on the Eastbound lanes of Northlake Boulevard just east of the Publix located at 10130 Northlake Boulevard. WPBPD stated that a man with a toddler in a Tesla veered off the road and then hit a fence, resulting in the car catching on fire.

One of the most prominent racist antisemitic Canadian politicians, a Hitler-wannabe who got himself arrested in the 1940s as a threat to democracy, had a grandson who has fallen not far from the family tree: Elon Musk.

Musk (father of at least twelve kids with at least three different women) is apparently known most now for his drug use… yet not enough drug use to stop from ranting constantly like his Nazi-loving grandpa about their favorite family paranoia — perceived theats to white male power.

In his latest move, acting out the stereotype of a sleepless angry old man who doesn’t know how a computer works, he’s been spreading manipulated conspiracy videos about Harris to dangerously peddle disinformation.

This is the current equivalent of email scams that trick you with text. These scams elevate it with audio/visual elements.

Such intentional fraud clearly violates Musk’s own policies, which highlights his long family history of total disregard and disrespect for law and order. Musk obviously is stumping for extremist right-wing politicians, as if he sees himself as above a Mackey fate.

…the federal conviction of Douglass Mackey last year [gives] an example of potential harms. Mackey, also known as the alt-right influencer “Rickey Vaughn”, sent mass text messages in November 2016 encouraging Black recipients to “vote by text” instead of casting a real vote, with the texts claiming they had been paid for by the Clinton campaign. Federal judges rejected Mackey’s first amendment arguments on the ground that the communications amounted to acts of fraud which were not constitutionally protected. Mackey was sentenced in October to serve seven months.

Musk engages in so much overt and intentional fraud at this point, historians may look back and use his name for it. In this case his promotion of deepfake AI of a political candidate violates the Federal Election Campaign Act, conspiracy to defraud U.S. law, Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and state election interference laws… or so experts say.

The fraudulent video he promotes with X Twitter, for example, lacks any disclaimer. The initial fascism propaganda account that uploaded it — @MrReaganUSA — had set a “parody” label. However, Musk removed all the disclaimers when he reposted it eight hours later simply commenting “This is amazing” to very intentionally increase the potential fraud impact.

Notably, this propaganda account that glorifies Hitler and fascism has a long relationship with Elon Musk and could be a member of his staff. Their timeline shows intention and planning, even directly taunting @POTUS in February 2023 about abuse of AI.

In related news, after Elon Musk announced he setup a PAC to control Trump, they admitted their plan is to end democracy and have no more elections. It’s just like back when Musk’s grandpa campaigned for a racist dictatorship during WWII (Technocracy branch of fascism)… and got himself arrested in Canada.