Everyone knows why Elon Musk was taking in Russian billions to pour into an American election campaign, and dismantle the U.S. government. He’s basically an alleged criminal on the run, corrupting the system to avoid justice.

The NHTSA, for example, just wrote their most strongly worded letter to Tesla yet. Unfortunately, this level of clarity about Tesla perpetrating “driverless” fraud is at least four years late.

[Division Chief, NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation,] Magno cited seven posts or reposts by Tesla’s account on X, the social media platform owned by Musk, that Magno said indicated that Full Self-Driving is capable of driving itself.

“Tesla’s X account has reposted or endorsed postings that exhibit disengaged driver behavior,” Magno wrote. “We believe that Tesla’s postings conflict with its stated messaging that the driver is to maintain continued control over the dynamic driving task.”

The postings may encourage drivers to see Full Self-Driving, which now has the word “supervised” next to it in Tesla materials, to view the system as a “chauffeur or robotaxi rather than a partial automation/driver assist system that requires persistent attention and intermittent intervention by the driver,” Magno wrote.

Here is the most dangerous social engineering tactic within the Tesla fraud:

…Tesla’s postings conflict with its stated messaging…

Why so dangerous? What happens is that people become especially careless (disable their disbelief) because there is a passive warning from Tesla in parallel with an active message from Tesla that encourages people to ignore the passive warning.

A 71-year-old woman who exited a vehicle following a rear-end collision with two other vehicles was killed in Rimrock, Arizona when she was struck by a Tesla in FSD mode with a driver battling sun glare who was not charged.

That’s not unlike the pedestrian death by Tesla in Japan, April 2018. Six years of death have continued as if its system has been so unregulated (“green light”) as to get worse since then, instead of required to be safe.

[Tesla] argued that it should be exempt from prosecution under US or California laws because “Japan is not a party to the Hague Convention.”

Consider that Tesla may have designed an intentional (injected) “operator fatigue” error platform for profit; a very predictable disaster by design.

The Uber driver was charged, and pled guilty to endangerment. Yet somehow the Tesla drivers do the same thing over and over and over again, avoiding charges after negligently removing hands from the wheel.

Think about that contrast between Uber and Tesla, about a company that flagrantly fights in court against any regulation of safety. What does it mean when a Tesla driver is allowed to avoid accountability by claiming anti-science beliefs (e.g. faith in Elon Musk’s blatant lies about the car driving itself)? What if they said they thought God has been driving their car, as if that’s any different of a claim?

Legalized negligence, amounting to murder.

I can’t emphasize this enough. If there was no warning at all it would be better, because Tesla lying about driverless would face basic scepticism. Tesla’s strategic mixture of messaging is a toxic disarming tactic.

Because the company posts a milquetoast warning, and then brazenly lies to undermine that warning, it combines into dangerously effective disinformation.

And hundreds of people have been killed because of this. Uber killed one person and completely shut their “key to success” program down. Tesla should have too. Instead it has only expanded the death tolls, and charged customers for an anti-social privilege ticket of unaccountable murder.

Tesla Deaths Per Year

Notably, the last time Trump occupied the White House starting in 2016, Elon Musk asked that the NHTSA be blocked from investigating people killed by Tesla. Thus, the “official” record of deaths doesn’t start until after Trump was forced to leave in 2020. Tesladeaths.com has the more accurate quantitative death toll, going all the way back to 2016. You also can read the 50 or so qualitative death reports on this blog.

Related, November 2022:

Tesla and Twitter Should be Banned as Threats to Global Security