Tesla FSD Slams Into Parked Police Car, Ignoring Flares and Flashing Lights, Nearly Killing Two Officers

The Tesla robot owner (e.g. soldier of Elon Musk) admitted to doing what the CEO told them to do, following orders to handle their robot as if it has the capability to drive itself.

A Fullerton Police Department officer was investigating a fatal crash around 12:04 a.m. near Orangethorpe and Courtney Avenues, according to a department news release. The officer was managing traffic at the time and emergency flares had been placed on the road.

The officer was standing outside his patrol vehicle, with its emergency lights on, and managed to jump out of the way before the driver of a blue Tesla crashed into his car, authorities said. A police dispatcher, who was riding in the patrol vehicle, also moved out of the way of the crash. […]

The Tesla driver admitted he was operating the vehicle in self-driving mode while using his cellphone, police said.

Police car with flares deployed and flashing its lights crushed by Tesla using FSD. Source: ABC7
A driver in a Tesla Model S crashed into a police cruiser in Orange County while operating in full self-driving mode earlier Thursday morning. Source: Los Angeles Times (OC Hawk)

A driver not paying attention is exactly why Tesla was just forced by regulators to issue a huge recall. And so this crash begs the question whether that recall effort was bogus.

The federal government’s main auto safety agency said on Friday that it was investigating Tesla’s recall of its Autopilot driver-assistance system because regulators were concerned that the company had not done enough to ensure that drivers remained attentive while using the technology.

Yeah. Fraud again. Without it, there would be no Tesla. Can’t even do a recall right. How bad are they? So bad, it’s hard to believe they are even allowed in public. Tesla needs to be reclassified by regulators as a sad clown car fit only for a circus.

NHTSA said there were gaps in Tesla’s telematic data reporting on crashes involving Autopilot since the automaker primarily gets data from crashes involving air bag deployments, which account for only about one-fifth of police-reported crashes. …evidence that “Tesla’s weak driver engagement system was not appropriate for Autopilot’s permissive operating capabilities” that result in a “critical safety gap.” …”foreseeable driver misuse of the system played an apparent role.” NHTSA noted Tesla’s December recall “allows a driver to readily reverse” the software update.

Wow, Tesla has killed over 500 people so far and we’re seeing investigation of only a fifth? Imagine airplanes crashing and 80% of the time going without reporting or investigation.

The police officer fortunately defied death in this latest case by remaining very alert. He took evasive action to avoid the incoming attack by Tesla capabilities.

A Fullerton Police Department spokesperson said the officer was standing outside his vehicle around midnight when he saw a Tesla driving in his direction and not slowing down.

The officer was able to jump out of the way as the Tesla slammed into the police car, spinning the patrol vehicle around and causing major damage to its front end.

We’re waiting to hear if it was the latest software, but it really doesn’t matter. Engineers still haven’t fixed the problem that caused their first fatality using Tesla driverless software in 2016.

Think hard about that.

Even flashing lights on service vehicles hasn’t been figured out yet by Tesla, despite eight years of high profile deaths and harm to public safety from their fraud. Nearly a decade of false promises about “driverless” products, while constantly crashing into things, which only has been getting worse if you follow this blog.

Move fast and undermine democracy?

It seems entirely plausible in this context that the big Tesla 8/8 (“Heil Hitler”) Robot Nazi launch date may include the call from Elon Musk to overthrow law and order — a directive to his millions of believers to distractedly allow their robots to deploy as soldiers and increase their rate of killing American government workers such as first responders.

Total Recall After Waymo Robot Taxi Crashes Into Pole

A crash into a pole by the Waymo driverless vehicle has prompted a second recall of the entire taxi fleet.

The company is under investigation by NHTSA for over two dozen incidents involving its driverless vehicles, including several “single-party” crashes and possible traffic law violations. Several incidents involved crashes with stationary objects, much like the May 21st crash with the telephone poll. […]

Waymo’s recall was deployed at the company’s depot by its team of engineers, not through an over-the-air software update.

Pole position usually refers to a series of Tesla crashes. Now we can add one Waymo.

Who Will be the Harry Markopolos of Tesla?

Harry mathematically proved that Bernie Madoff was a fraud, and repeatedly delivered the proof to the SEC until they finally did something.

The clock ticks far too long on Tesla. Why isn’t Elon Musk going to jail? Who will be the Harry Markopolos of today?

For just one out of hundreds of examples, ZEV credits were based on range so Tesla lied egregiously about theirs. This intentionally engineered fraud soaked up billions of unearned credits, and then customers realized only too late that they had paid into a scam. Tesla could owe the U.S. government return of those bilked billions.

Meanwhile Tesla is trying to claim that when it miscalculates, such as severance to the staff that it laid off, it will sue the unemployed for every single penny.

Coffeezilla, where are you? You covered the X token already. Remember X token?

Outrageous Need for Outlets: Cable Thefts Sparked in America by Stupid Lack of Sockets

I’ve said it for years and I’ll say it again, electric vehicle charging should primarily be done with sockets. Make the owner of a car bring a cable. It’s basic electricity infrastructure design, and sockets are 100 years old, as old as electric cars.

Reports like this AP hyperventilation one completely miss the point, that we don’t need giant cables dangling around in public spaces to be damaged or stolen.

Two men, one with a light strapped to his head, got out. A security camera recorded them pulling out bolt cutters. One man snipped several charging cables; the other loaded them into the truck. In under 2½ minutes, they were gone.

Replace the cable with a socket. People bring their own cable.

Problem solved.

How many years of cables being stolen, oooh scary, do Americans have to read about before charging station journalism just gets a basic clue?

Mennekes makes top quality charging points and designed them with sockets, which is thus how most of the world uses them.

For reference, cable theft is an extremely well known problem, which begs the obvious question who in America was allowed to design charging stations with vulnerable cables dangling all over the place?

The estimated loss due to cable theft in the United States is between $1.5 billion and $2 billion per year. This includes the cost of replacing stolen cables, the cost of lost productivity, and the cost of damage to property.

Tesla bothered to invent their own plug, to push the country to adapt to their charging station design, but ignored the actual problems that would destroy it all? The sheer stupidity of Tesla engineering management never ceases to amaze me.

To make an even finer point. Tesla literally took the Mennekes products, switched them to permanent cables that could be stolen or damaged, and slapped a Tesla logo on top when deploying centralized stations ripe for crime. The American electric vehicle market would be far better off without any Tesla.