Some excellent market analysis is just in from Hard Drive.

“Our product has completely changed the way Americans die in Teslas,” said Greg Joswiak, Apple’s senior vice president of marketing, in an in-store demo. “No longer will people simply burn alive or watch helplessly as their car drives itself into the side of an overpass. We see the potential for more.”

Joswiak then detailed specific ways the Apple Vision Pro can enhance the experience of not paying attention while driving.

“Imagine, you’re halfway through watching Killers Of The Flower Moon in full 4K on your Apple Vision Pro. Leonardo DiCaprio is eating a plate of very sweet dumplings…”

…and then boom, you’re dying in a fire, people you crashed into are dying, but you remain blissfully unaware and focused on high resolution dumplings being eaten instead of realizing your complete failure to family, friends and society.

Less than a month after its release, a Tesla Cybertruck caused major damage…

Police say the Tesla failed to avoid collision with a car right in front of it, but have not yet published details of speeds involved.

On February 7, 2024, at approximately 7:40 a.m., officers responded to a multi-vehicle crash on Annapolis Road (Route 175) at Piedmont Lane in Hanover. The investigation would reveal that a 2015 Dodge Dart was turning left from eastbound Annapolis Road onto Piedmont Lane when it was struck by a 2020 Tesla Model X traveling westbound on Annapolis Road, causing the Dodge to overturn.

A doctor used a Tesla to kill his friend and mentor, about eighteen months ago. He has just now pled guilty to homicide.

You may remember the video of this mangled blue Tesla. Joseph Yanta was behind the wheel, and Doug Rockacy was in the passenger seat. Both were UPMC doctors at the time and friends.

It was a very typical Tesla story, losing control when the road curved, excessive acceleration and unsafe speed.

…Yanta was driving over 120 mph in a 35-mph zone when he lost control around a bend and crashed the vehicle, data from his Tesla showed.

A very unique problem related to the “fail faster” management of the brand. Both doctors still would be alive today if they had been riding in any other EV. Deaths by Tesla:

I expect financial headlines pivoting from the latest AI research could be “buy buy buy” as cynical hawks on Wall Street tend to calculate nuclear war escalation as just “good for business”.

However, to any rational thinking person who doesn’t want to murder their neighbors for profit, the real news is that Palantir is yet again being exposed as toxic to humanity; the worst possible bet.

All these AIs are supported by Palantir… [with] demonstrated tendencies to invest in military strength and to unpredictably escalate the risk of conflict – even in the simulation’s neutral scenario.

See any profit motive ethical issues in the unpredictable escalation of conflict?

Palantir has been known for many years to get away with extra-judicial mistargeted killings and engage in willful privacy violations to undermine political opponents. They have been repeatedly exposed as an engineering culture driven by political extremism; a text book example of the kind of company that should have been banned since the 1960s when AI warnings really started. Using Palantir today reminds me of the kind of thinking that allowed East Germans to boast their oily, smelly, weak Trabant was in “high demand”… up to the day the wall came down. Nobody in their right mind would ever buy into Palantir.

Invest into stock from a warmongering unpredictability machine known for being wrong most of the time? It’s like Wall Street rubbing it’s hands over high targets for revenue from a bridge building company that pours money into the water as it can’t get to the other side.