The safety of Tesla’s “summon” concept is entirely suspect.

What if it kills many people on its way? Uber tried, and failed, to argue a trivial software switch made the company not liable for murder while en route to pick up a rider.

A Tesla owner summons it in a parking lot. The Tesla runs over a woman and her child walking in the lot to their car and kills them. Who’s at fault?

A Tesla owner summons it on the street. The Tesla drives on the sidewalk and kills three pedestrians, before high-speed hitting a pole, spinning out of control and causing an eight car pileup. Who’s at fault?

What quality check is used to prevent these safety failures? What loopholes will Tesla try to exploit to avoid liability for its rushed design flaws?

Here’s another taste of Tesla’s low quality engineering haste.

With GmsCore v0.2.28.231657 when selecting “Location” or “Summon” the Tesla Motors app (com.teslamotors.tesla) crashes.

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Start the Tesla Motors app
2. Click on ‘Location’ or ‘ Summon’
3. The app crashes

This gives “crashing” on “summon” new meaning. Or does it?

Why trust “summon” from the lowest quality car made in history?

The Belgian court has just ruled Tesla engineering is so subpar and dangerous, “luxury” cars so poorly made, owners can get a full refund.

GmsCore is to allow applications designed for Google Play to run on systems that do not have it available. It’s part of the microG project, a German government sponsored Google free reimplementation of Android.

Tesla infamously was started by someone else, someone who cared a lot about cars.

Then it was forcibly taken over (stolen, really) by a dubiously rich man from South Africa who doesn’t know a thing about cars, doesn’t even know how to drive (crashed his uninsured $1M McClaren after just 10K miles), and most of all doesn’t care about anything but getting rich from attention.

Tesla thus always has been an African advance fee fraud (AFF) formula, and courts are finally beginning to figure this out.

A Belgian court found Tesla unhelpful and opaque, as fraudsters typically are. Then the court ruled a full refund is due to the unfortunate Tesla owner.

…Model S P100D electric vehicle – was plagued with serious problems. The Antwerp Court of Appeal found in his favour, confirming the existence of serious shortcomings in terms of the car’s driving comfort and safety.

In a Het Laatste Nieuws article published on Saturday, the customer listed a host of issues with his vehicle from day one: faulty sensors, imperfect brakes, and a defective display screen. All of these problems were confirmed by an independent investigation carried out by experts.

In its ruling, the Court of Appeal also criticised Tesla’s failure to cooperate with the investigation, in particular by failing to provide the court-appointed experts with data relating to the vehicle.

Plagued with problems.

Faulty sensors.

Faulty brakes.

Faulty control console.

No cooperation from the people responsible for the faults.

This is not a car that should be operating on public roads. That is not an exaggeration. It is unsafe at any speed, as you can read any day from places where Tesla still is allowed to operate.

The owner of a new Tesla Model 3 was left in shock after the car’s main features allegedly froze while he was driving on the freeway. Javier Rodriguez of Irvine spoke with Eyewitness News on Tuesday and said it happened last Thursday while he was heading westbound on the 10 Freeway through Cabazon. He said the car was stuck going 83 mph and the main screen was frozen. He said all of the buttons and switches – including turn signals and hazard lights – were not working.

New car.

Main features frozen while driving on the freeway.

At this point, local law enforcement should stop and impound the dangerously unsafe Tesla and consider whether any person selling a Tesla should investigated for fraud.

Without fraud there would be no Tesla.

Lately it seems a software update to Tesla cars has them abruptly “veering” into other cars and off the road into trees.

A half-dozen crashes recently have all the same hallmark of a serious AI/robot integrity breach, with most of them being fatal.

Here’s one that just killed a mother and daughter.

A Los Gatos mother and daughter died Wednesday when the Tesla in which they were riding crashed into a tree on the side of San Tomas Expressway in Santa Clara.

The woman, 44, and her 12-year-old daughter were traveling north in a white 2021 Tesla Model Y, approaching Forbes Avenue, when the car left the road and struck the tree about 2 p.m.

Technically it looks like the car “veered” abruptly just north of Forbes Avenue.

What kind of mother lets their daughter ride in a Tesla? Seriously. Did she not read the news?

It looks a lot like another case of Autopilot failure, crash and a dead Tesla driver after being ejected (e.g. sleeping without a seatbelt).

One person was killed and nearly a dozen others were hurt in a multi-vehicle crash on I-95 that Miami Fire Rescue called a “mass casualty incident.”

The accident, which involved eight vehicles, happened in the southbound lanes in the area of NW 62nd Street at 2:10 a.m.

According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the driver of a black Tesla sedan was heading south, lost control, and slammed into the concrete barrier wall. The disabled car came to a stop, blocking the roadway.

The Tesla was then struck by a black Dodge sedan. On impact, the man driving the Tesla was thrown from the vehicle and landed on the road.

It has very similar characteristics to other Tesla crashes lately.

The report says the Tesla lost control. However, at 2 am a Tesla typically is on Autopilot, which typically runs into concrete barriers.

The burden of proof should be to show that Autopilot was not being used.

In related news, yet another Tesla just crashed into a fire truck.

A Tesla plowed into a stationary fire truck that had responded to a multiple-vehicle crash on Interstate Highway 680 Wednesday, authorities said.

The Fremont Fire Department said one of its fire engines was on the northbound lanes of traffic at Auto Mall Parkway when it was hit by a Tesla Model Y.

Tesla Autopilot seems to be getting worse and worse.

In related news...

Tesla is engulfed in flames after a single-vehicle collision in Santa Clara Wednesday afternoon. […] The witness said the driver lost control of the vehicle before swerving left to the intersection.

Another “veered” crash.

For a car company that promised the world it would eliminate car crashes and injuries, Tesla allegedly is quickly causing more and more instead.

And, in related news, another horrible fire without warning.

He said a Good Samaritan driving by alerted them of a fire in their garage. This gave the family enough time to get out before the fire engulfed their home.

The cause of the fire is still under investigation but Cormack told Eyewitness News, he suspects his Tesla is the cause of the blaze.

He should have suspected it sooner. Neighbors should have suspected it sooner. Everyone should have suspected it sooner.