For years the Tesla CEO has deceptively marketed his cars as ready for driverless and, as they failed, asked his victims for increased advance fees to achieve his promises of the future.
And now the Tesla CEO has just officially warned his victims that they will never get the driverless features he promised them. It turns out, unfortunately still surprising some, that his advance fee fraud schemes were always in fact… fraud.
After a disappointing earnings call, the CEO softly landed the awful truth beneath years of unaccountable lies.
We are not 100 percent sure. HW4 [a hard pivot made last year, admitting failure of earlier versions] has several times the capability of HW3. It’s easier to get things to work on HW4 and it takes a lot of efforts to squeeze that into HW3. There is some chance that HW3 does not achieve the safety level that allows for unsupervised FSD.
Talk about an understatement. The CEO has some doubt that his cars can ever achieve the safety level that allows for driverless?
This is the man who had said if anyone ever criticized Tesla for safety issues, he would accuse them of killing people.
That’s not an exaggeration or a misquote. The Tesla CEO in fact had said in 2016 anyone being critical of his tech stack meant they were responsible for killing people. In 2018 he doubled down saying any critical statements about Tesla driverless would get people killed because the public wouldn’t trust… HW3.
Let me be even more clear.
The Tesla CEO claimed in the latest 2024 call that FSD will somehow be safer than a human by Q2 2025. The future! Got that? Ok, now watch his investor call in 2016 when he proudly said Tesla had already surpassed this milestone.
So here he is eight years later being critical of all the HW3 on the roads already like nobody can trust it yet.
Who’s the real killer, by a real measure of intentionally misleading people? The data speaks for itself, with Tesla clearly being far less safe than any other brand.
Also what is this nonsense about it being easier to work with HW4? Is the Tesla motto now that they can’t work on the hard things?
Driverless is known for being one of the hardest problems in transit to solve. The CEO is admitting (albeit subtlely) his company will never actually solve it — as they can only work on the easy things.
Futurism now literally refers to Tesla as an “astonishing screwup.” That’s a funny way to spell F-R-A-U-D.