February 2022 Lukoil called for peace in Ukraine. September 2022 Lukoil chairman Ravil Maganov fell to his death from a Moscow hospital window. Lukoil was forced to state that he “passed away following a severe illness.”
Reports of recent high profile assassinations in Russia, as previously mentioned, have now put the total at 40 people dead.
A top executive at Russia’s second-biggest oil company has become the third person to die suddenly in the past 18 months at the firm, which last year took a public stand over Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Chairman of Lukoil Vladimir Nekrasov died after suffering acute heart failure, the company said on Tuesday. It did not respond to a request for further comment.
Mr Nekrasov replaced the previous head of Lukoil’s board Ravil Maganov in September last year, after he died falling from a hospital window, according to state-run news agency TASS.
Putin has even ordered his critic’s spouse and children killed, just like the families killed in a gruesome “veered” Tesla crash.
Is it any wonder how penalty of death means nobody in Russia dares to show any real thought or competence, just like under Tesla management?
More and more Tesla death court cases reveal that engineers are focused on avoiding or burying criticism, instead of on fixing their growing numbers of fatal design flaws. Tesla engineer Ashok Elluswamy testified in court July 2022 how “Autopilot” AI had been an intentional fraud from its start, killing nearly 40 owners.
And so the death toll rises from these dictators who even collaborate.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday praised Elon Musk, calling [sabotage of Ukraine communications the work of his] “talented businessman.”
Which is more likely now, Americans dying in a Tesla “driverless” crash or Russians falling to their death from a Moscow hospital window?
Tesla not only knew its cars were suddenly “veering” and killing owners, it gave this deadly design flaw a name when it decided to not fix it six years ago.
Jonathan Michaels, who represents the passengers, showed jurors a 2017 internal Tesla safety analysis identifying “incorrect steering command” as a defect, involving an “excessive” steering wheel angle.
“They predicted this was going to happen. They knew about it. They named it,” Michaels said. Tesla developed a protocol to deal with customers who experienced it, he said, and instructed employees to accept no liability or responsibility for the problem.
This coverup helps prove one of the reasons, out of the seemingly growing list, why Tesla crash fatally far more than other cars.
The latest ADAS safety data published by the NHTSA indicates Tesla now has a fatality rate of one out of every ten crashes.
In related news, photos of the Tesla Truck are circulating that show a dangerous control arm design failure.
New Tesla Truck control arm before useUsed Tesla Truck control arm after initial use
Control arms are crucial components for safety, yet Tesla continues its terrible record of cheap unreliable designs that fail catastrophically.
“Nice $80k black hole for money that almost got us killed. Thanks a lot Elon.” Complaint filed for safety failure on brand new Tesla. Source: Jalopnik, which also includes a flurry of bizarre Twitter attacks on this complaint as context of “…you really have to hand it to Tesla for inspiring this degree of crazy, evidence-denying loyalty among their fans. […] It’s a strange part to fail, though, really. It is a part subject to intense stresses, but it’s not like it’s particularly complex or poorly understood—this is some Cars 101 shit right here. It’s a control arm. No need to call SpaceX to consult, because this is absolutely not rocket science. This is also the kind of failure, that, were it to happen at speed, could potentially cause a wreck that could result in, potentially, people getting hurt. A week-old car should not have problems like this. Hell, a car a decade or more old shouldn’t have control arms just snapping. This is ridiculous. and the idea that a car with no evidence of a major accident shouldn’t have this covered by warranty is absurd as well.”
Compare a cheap and flimsy stamped metal plate in the new/used Tesla photos above with this known safe truck design. The difference is hopefully obvious.
Properly designed upper control arm for trucks
You might think that Tesla would have thought about this a lot after making over 700,000 Model 3 using an obviously bad design with dangerously failing control arms. But no, they don’t seem to think at all about real safety.
The problem is simple enough to identify: The water channels from the Tesla windshield drain directly onto the control arms on the left and right front corners of the vehicles. Because the OE control arms are a plastic and steel composite component, and had been designed with insufficient moisture protection, the plastic overmold can crack or delaminate, causing water to seep into the ball joint – eventually impacting the lifespan of the part and, in rare cases, compromising steering precision.
Calling it rare cases of failure is being too generous. Even one catasrophic control arm failure is too many.
Related: Dangerous Tesla accelerator pedal design flaw has been unfixed for a decade. Somehow owners are still surprised when it breaks.
A new report explains how dangerous violent misinformation is being aggressively expanded by Elon Musk
…posts advancing these myths received 1,349,979 engagements and were cumulatively viewed by more than 100 million times globally in just one week. When faced with criticism that his sweeping changes have led to increased misinformation on the platform, Musk often touts his expansion of X’s crowdsourced fact-checking feature, called “Community Notes.” However, NewsGuard found that just 79 of the 250 posts advancing misinformation about the war were flagged by the platform with a Community Note. That means that a note appeared approximately 32 percent of the time on some of the platform’s most prominent and harmful misinformation posts.
This shows eXtwitter has a 70% failure rate when trying to shift accountability to “community” volunteer safety.
Meanwhile, the report concludes eXtwitter management is complicit in facilitating dangerous terrorist propaganda.
The Blue Check-Verified Misinformation Superspreaders of the Israel-Hamas War: …account was banned… reinstated after Musk acquired X. It became blue-check verified in September 2023, one month before the onset of the Israel-Hamas War. Collectively, the [terrorist group misinformation] posts from @Sprinter99800 were cumulatively viewed nearly 3 million times.
…Musk had recently spoken with Russia’s ambassador in Washington, who had warned him explicitly that any attack on Crimea would lead to nuclear conflict.
In fact, the exact opposite happened next, attacks on Crimea led to Russia running away scared. Arguably these attacks shortened the war and reduced threats to civilians.
This was easily predicted by historians, especially those who study how General Grant crushed pro-slavery forces by pushing straight past such empty threat tactics to liberate millions from oppression.
And yet, not just last year, but even to this day Musk keeps parroting the baseless Russian propaganda. This just in:
“We need to figure out peace in Ukraine, and I think we need to restore normal relations with Russia,” Musk said in a talk on his social media platform X on Monday. “World War III is a civilizational risk that we may not recover from. So we need to prioritize avoiding World War III…”
Musk’s suggestions have been derided by Ukrainian officials as non-starters. “F— off is my very diplomatic reply to you @elonmusk,” Ukrainian diplomat Andriy Melnyk responded to his proposal in October 2022.
No wonder Russia started a war in Israel, and no wonder they are paying Elon Musk to spread their propaganda on his sinking platform to keep it afloat.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Anyone expect Musk to ever get on the right side of history? He’s repeating the worst mistakes, ignorant beyond belief.
Tesla quality is notoriously low. Defects are high and service is slow and expensive. Perhaps the laziest brand working the least hard, the design hasn’t changed either, further erasing the value of used vehicles.
The average used car sells in 49 days, which is 6.1 percent faster than a year ago, but new cars have slowed by 25.7 percent
The Tesla Model S is the slowest-selling used vehicle, taking an average of 88.3 days to sell.
It’s not hard to understand why the data shows nobody wants to buy the tired old Tesla S.
You should expect their later models to soon slow down as well, not least of all because build quality has decreased over time as dangerous bugs (loads of technical debt) explode. Indeed, the Tesla Model X already is taking an average of 71.4 days.
Lazy yet rushed, inexperienced yet boastful… Tesla management is the definition of short sighted low value.
At best if someone buys into the dead Tesla brand they should part ways by parting out the few bits even worth anything.
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