Simulated kids, real tragedy.

I won’t bore you with the fact that Tesla since 2016 has repeatedly been proven by engineers to be a dangerous fraud.

Truth can be boring, and safety design failures can be especially boring.

See this dangerous design flaw in a Tesla cast aluminum frame explained by basic physics? No of course you don’t because zzzzz you fell asleep by the time I said “explained”. I get it. As a security guy with decades of board-room experience, I really get it. I’ve literally watched a CEO in a zillion dollar NYC skyscraper office fall asleep when he is presented with immediate danger to his customers. Wake up America.

Huh? What? Why should he care?

Spoiler alert. Simple tests of Tesla dangerous design decisions repeatedly have proven them a known deadly threat to public safety… for a very long time. This post is about a cool new kid on the block.

Well, a dead new kid.

Tesla ran that test mannequin over like a drunken Russian sea captain crashing broadside into an anchored oil tanker. Side burn, literally.

So let’s consider that anyone with an ounce of integrity has known for decades why and how LiDAR is considered by experts to be a mandatory autopilot safety requirement. Navigation safety is very well known and extensively studied, despite Tesla pretending like it’s all up in the air. Cameras are very poor at object recognition due to visibility issues and, just to make this point abundantly clear, Tesla implemented low-quality cheap webcams. It’s such an intentionally bad design decision as to appear some kind of sick, cruel joke on all those who have died as a result of trusting Tesla with their lives.

Everyone knew that Elon Musk removing LiDAR was a short sighted (no pun intended) “cost cutting” measure that would definitely kill people, let alone “cost cutting” by slapping in flawed AI with cheap and weak cameras…. But how many saw it as foreshadowing for Elon Musk now rapidly firing American government workers and shutting down critical agencies as “unnecessary” in his latest “cost cutting” fallacy?

Making America Blind and Dumb.

Just as dozens of people unnecessarily have been killed by Tesla autopilot by having its LiDAR stupidly cut out (leading to a Tesla death rate higher than domestic terrorism), Elon Musk is on track (no pun intended) to get even more people killed by cutting American federal government services.

Same guy. Same deadly moves. Same outcome expected: unnecessarily dead children.

I say all that because this flashy new video shouldn’t be making news, given it rehashes such a long-known fact. Instead it’s already at 5M views and rocketing higher and higher. The creator pumps his volume to 11 on being “first” and doing something novel. He falsely implies that we didn’t already have copious tests showing Elon Musk knowingly removed safety and intentionally caused deaths. That’s a dangerous tactic, undermining the community to benefit the content creator (subscribe, subscribe, money, money).

Everyone knows the Dawn Project right? They suck at marketing, no doubt.

Yet also they have top notch engineers. The BEST engineers. Nobody should make a new video doing what they have been doing and fail to mention such very well known prior art… oh, wait, unless you are a fan of Walt Disney.

Ahhh, Disney. That guy. The new video is really into Disney.

He NEVER gave credit. Disney is the definition of idea theft used in attention seeking for profit. Random example? Who can forget Disney saw a woman in LA had made a successful family business after she invented tortilla chips. Doritos were then launched as a brand with high production value to bascially sell across the street from her, taking her business away in direct competition without credit due. Everyone knows about Doritos, nobody remembers the woman inventor they were meant to erase from history.

What was her name? She literally invented tortilla chips and like nobody remembers her?

That’s Disney.

Many, many prior engineers have tested and proven what is being repeated in this new high production level video. I believe my public presentations on LiDAR hacks on automotive system even go way back to 2012. And I have met with some LiDAR experts who spilled a decade of ink criticizing Tesla, like aerospace engineers who laid it out for all of us to see and got zero attention. My talks were based on such priors, as well as current research, and always used citations.

What’s being shown in this video is thus VERY OLD AND WELL KNOWN as a Tesla design flaw forced by Elon Musk. That can’t be said enough, and should be said in context of all the experts in agreement over time because the timeline and persistence of experts matters.

Ok, ok also I can’t say I don’t appreciate the novel new presentation style. I do appreciate the sizzle and sass of the influencer meme, the “positive” narrator trying to spin his way into our heads like a Mickey Mouse clubhouse song. This is like how Snow White or Mermaid got Disney-style remakes using big production budgets, without admitting how kids had been told the same story since forever before. Is it different? We can appreciate some graphics without losing sight of the real origins, right?

I just wonder why a high budget anti-Tesla production didn’t end with the statement THREE KIDS DIED in simulated safety tests. Too honest? Too real? The story here AGAIN is that Tesla knowingly sold straw huts to pigs while falsely claiming to be selling them space age materials that prevent wolf visits… predictably resulting in three little pigs being eaten by the wolf.

Perhaps it’s like how Disney totally ruined the Mermaid, I mean wrecked it horribly, just to increase attention as a “new” version of the traditional story.

Let’s face it, this new “Tesla can’t see” video has serious production whiz (as in propaganda wizards, like military intelligence agencies). The star of the show goes to Disneyland a lot, that’s clear, so we can understand his aspirational “wow kids” style (his marketing foo… formerly known as propaganda). The polish is very different than the work I usually see from focused safety engineers, who correctly regard most forms of attention seeking as integrity risk or even loss/corruption.

Watch it if you want, but it simply tells you what you already should have known. Huff-a-puff… the Elon Musk “efficiency” lie of Tesla safety design has always been a lie.

It’s a long video so the TL;DR is a straw hut (camera) isn’t a brick house (LiDAR) when the wolf blows in.

Elon Musk’s life of white supremacist privileges, which led to his alleged habit of intentional shortcuts of “efficiency” to avoid real engineering work, means that twenty time three little pigs are dead.

For real, over 50 people have been killed by Tesla autopilot: Tesladeaths.com