Musk is often happy to follow foreign governments’ requests to crack down on users they oppose (which is absolutely not “par for the course for all internet companies,” no matter what he may claim).
The mogul’s treatment of union organizers and whistleblowers suggested that “free-speech absolutism” was mostly code for a high tolerance for bigotry toward particular groups, a smoke screen that obscured an obvious hostility toward any speech that threatened his ability to make money.
Absolutely horrible, Twitter is now nothing more than a tinpot African dictator platform. Reading tweets is increasingly like going backwards in time to tune into racist 1990s apartheid news on the radio.
…lawyer Alex Spiro reportedly “loudly opined that it was unreasonable… to pay… since San Francisco was a s— hole,” and Musk himself said “he would only pay… over his dead body.”
Imagine the mind of a person who says they will only pay if they’re dead.
But now there’s a loophole that every dead Tesla owner will want in their will. Plot twist!
The big fancy lawyers of Tesla have clearly announced nobody should pay for things, anything, when they live in a city.
Did you hear that Tesla owners? Move to a city and you don’t have to pay for your car, even when it kills you before you kill others!
Something tells me people living in a city are too modest to want to own a s- hole Tesla that tries to kill you and everyone around you. They don’t really even want to own cars. Even a free early death is still early death, if you see the problem.
Perhaps that’s the real story here.
Tesla rapidly is losing market share and cities are no exception (as residents read about suburban owners being burned alive, their houses destroyed, by design flaws). The CEO is using his Digital Dearborn Independent as a vehicle to unleash tired hate speech without fear it will impact sales.
Or even more to the point, he doesn’t care about sales. He cares about attention. Political attention.
In fact, the less Tesla sells (repeat customers hard to find if they keep dying abruptly), the more hate speech Twitter will foment as their new business model or even political platform.
Don’t need to sell cars if the business shifts to a 1930s sentiment of trying to get paid to monopolize violence… like how GOP politician Kris Kobach wrote his Harvard thesis promoting South African Apartheid as a great business model for white men.
Has Twitter hired Tucker “it’s the birth rates” Carlson yet to promote racist talking points? Or has he been burned to death already after someone put him in a Tesla? So much death, so little news about who and why.
From the 1920s through the 1980s a major talking point of white nationalists (e.g. Prime Minister Hertzog) in South Africa was population decline (e.g. “replacement theory” or “swamping”) despite the country at the time experiencing a population surge.
Guess who has two thumbs, whines constantly about bogus population decline theory, and originally is from 1980s South Africa? The Tesla CEO telling Twitter lawyers dumb things to say. His antics seem more and more out of date the more he talks, just like an old “verlig-verkrampstryd“.
I suspected a new software bug in Tesla’s notoriously unsafe ADAS. It probably should have grounded all Tesla immediately like the Boeing 737-MAX fiasco.
Unlike a human driver error isolated to an individual case, Tesla pushes dangerous software updates to millions of cars running a notoriously unsafe platform. Literally millions of people can be in immediate danger.
Two girls and a woman were killed and three other children and a teenager suffered major injuries Sunday morning in a collision on the eastbound 10 Freeway near Palm Springs, the California Highway Patrol said. […] The people who died were girls ages 8 and 12 and a 31-year-old woman. The four surviving children — girls ages 3 and 11, and boys 7 and 15 — had major injuries. The 39-year-old driver had moderate injuries and the 41-year-old right front passenger had minor injuries, Montez said. The occupants of the Suburban included parents, their children and some cousins
There is not enough evidence yet to rule out Tesla’s ADAS as primary cause of the accident. However, Tesla in early 2016 openly boasted (falsely) it had achieved “collision avoidance” capabilities that now seem to be inverted and getting worse — Tesla may be increasingly confused, targeting and killing people around them.
The collision was reported at about 7:24 a.m. west of Haugen-Lehmann Way in the Whitewater area. Results from the preliminary investigation suggest that the Suburban was in the No. 2 lane and the Tesla, driven by a 31-year-old male resident of Indio, was in the No. 3 lane when for unknown reasons they collided. The driver of the Suburban lost control and crashed into the center divider, Montez said.
That entire paragraph about “unknown reasons for colliding” should have been impossible for the two vehicles travelling adjacent on a highway, if Tesla marketing is to be believed.
Tesla’s rush to prematurely advertise “collision avoidance” must not only come under long-overdue strict scrutiny, but also be investigated for leading to the exact opposite conclusion — causing fatal collisions.
A Tesla has been in a crash with a F-150, leaving the Tesla owner dead. It quietly revealed yet again that the “Autopilot crap” is really, and always will be, crap.
An entirely avoidable near-miss incident video shared by Josh Brown was unapologetically spun into a dangerously misleading Twitter PR campaign (disinformation, which killed Brown himself only weeks later while believing the CEO’s suggestion collisions would be avoided).
As you probably know by now that his unnecessary death (and the Tesla CEO response that radar would be added to cars to prevent any more deaths, a statement he then reversed to increase margins on sales), sparked a series of talks by me over the subsequent years about the fraud (and gaslighting).
I hoped to raise awareness from a safety engineering perspective. Tesla seemed to be run by someone detached from reality, uncaring about human life, which would kill more people than ever.
While my warnings about this have been accurate, I’m still not sure the right people are getting the blazingly loud tesladeaths.com message yet.
Source: Tesladeaths.com
I suppose it was easy for me to predict Tesla’s early “safest car” claims as fraud. That is because I look deeply into the data, look deeply into the technology, and… let’s be honest, this isn’t rocket science.
Here’s the latest problem, after it quietly leaked out of Corona police reports. The initial safety bulletin was sparsely written:
On March 28, 2023, at 10:16 P.M., the Corona Police Department responded to a traffic collision at the intersection of Foothill Parkway and Rimpau Avenue. Upon arrival, officers discovered that a Ford F-150 truck had entered the intersection against a red light and collided with a Tesla. The driver of the Tesla, a 43- year-old male resident of Corona, succumbed to his injuries at the scene…
Red light crash? That is one of my core areas of control failure research that I have spoken out about for years — like talking about firewall rule bypass, which should make any SOC analyst’s ears burn.
To me the report reads like a Tesla in 2023 did not avoid a collision, despite such promised capability. That is a very big clue for predicting more crashes, worth investigating further (e.g. the entire basis of my presentations/predictions for the past seven years).
After months of watching and waiting on Corona, California for more details, nothing came (unlike in a Colorado investigation of killer robots, for comparison). We haven’t heard from police, for example, whether the CEO-driven Tesla fraud campaign is in trouble for his role in this crash. Could his buggy, oversold software have done a better job here than the human… at the thing he repeatedly promises: collision avoidance?
Entities named in the General Order must report a crash if Level 2 ADAS was in use at any time within 30 seconds of the crash and the crash involves a vulnerable road user or results in a fatality, a vehicle tow-away, an air bag deployment, or any individual being transported to a hospital for medical treatment.
That 30 seconds reference is because Tesla tried to cheat by disabling their technology at the very last second so they could falsely blame humans for computer failures.
Tesla seems to be blaming drivers despite, at least in these sixteen high-profile emergency vehicle crashes—in which Teslas rammed into stopped emergency vehicles alongside roadways or in active lanes, incidents NHTSA found on average would have been identifiable by a human up to 8 seconds ahead of time—Autopilot was running but then shut off just a second before the impact.
Super evil stuff.
It’s hard for me to believe people still buy this brand after its founder was pushed out for being concerned about safety. Let me say that again, Tesla management appears to be intentionally cooking data to avoid accountability when their product failed.
You can not trust anything Tesla says about Tesla logs. Assume they are the Enron of automobile data.
What they do is far, far worse stuff than VW “dieselgate” since people are literally dying from their coverups.
At this point NHTSA might as well call out a Tesla Order, given the obvious sore thumb among all the other carmakers.
Source: NHTSA SGO May 2023
Is it volume? Nope.
Nissan claims nearly 600,000 vehicles operating its Level 2 ADAS “ProPilot Assist” yet it looks like it reported only two crashes, to put it another way. Volvo similarly has a high volume of cars, which shows up as just one crash.
Tesla has design flaws causing a crash frequency that puts it in a zone all its own, at over 700 and rapidly increasing. The more people use their products the more people die or are harmed, unlike any other car.
Garbage engineering rushed to market puts it mildly, made worse by a CEO who fraudulently promotes low quality software as if it’s magic fairy dust. His decision recently to personally screen every single Tesla employee for loyalty to him (e.g. the infamous moral dilemma of a Hitler Oath, for those who know history) indicates he is becoming desperate to hide failure.
[Creating a fear and harm culture where staff] excuse themselves from any personal responsibility for the unspeakable crimes which they carried out on the orders of the Supreme Commander whose true nature they had seen for themselves. […] Later and often, by honoring their oath they dishonored themselves as human beings and trod in the mud the moral code…
American autoworkers and their children in 1941 protest Ford’s relationship with Hitler. Source: Wayne State
Anyway, back to this tragic Corona crash reported in April to NHTSA, a Tesla owner clearly didn’t get the memo about Tesla safety failures and disinformation as his car drove towards the wide open Rimpau and Foothill intersection.
Source: Google StreetView
So here are the SGO details just released, which show the destroyed Tesla was brand new and traveling at only 47mph… like entirely new just on the road for the first time at 10PM (Dark – Lighted) and conclusively relying on ADAS.
Model Year: 2023
Mileage: 590
Date: March 2023
Time: 05:15 (10:15 PM local time)
Posted Speed Limit: 45
Precrash Speed: 47
That 590 mile odometer really grabbed me. It sounds like very compelling proof that Tesla safety claims, like their customers, are dead. And the speed was below 50mph, which in a wide open intersection should have significantly lessened stopping distance, reaction time and thus risk of harm.
It’s worth further research to understand why the newest Tesla ADAS at moderate speed, the most recent and theoretically improved product, again didn’t avoid a fatal crash. Given how it has been advertised as collision avoidance supposedly improving over time, the advertising isn’t even close to product ability.
The data even suggests an older Tesla could be less likely to fatally crash than any new one (e.g. Mobileye and NVidia supplied Tesla superior engineering, yet both walked away over serious ethics concerns).
Tesla technology and management of risk to society seems to be only getting worse, crashing in ways that weren’t a problem five or more years ago.
We see far too many brand new Tesla crash almost immediately like this, for example, straight from factory to junkyard as if they are headed towards being least safest thing on the road. The CEO talks about his product like it will improve, yet it declines, as real world experiences suggests he is selling little more than overpriced coffins.
On a related note, the top five recent ADAS fatalities by speed (MPH) were all… Teslas flagrantly ignoring road signs and failing to avoid collisions.
Posted Speed: 55; Precrash: 97 into another car
Posted Speed: 45; Precrash: 97 into motorcycle
Posted Speed: 55; Precrash: 96 into fixed object
Posted Speed: 65; Precrash: 96 into fixed object
Posted Speed: 55; Precrash: 90 into another car
How “auto” can any “pilot” ever be, given it clocks in over 700 catastrophic errors such as these?
Would any actual pilot, human or not, be allowed to pilot for even one more minute given fatal crashes into things at this frequent pace? The fact that software can be used to kill and then kill again, and again hundreds of times, is truly diabolical.
And it is a strange twist to history, albeit a repeat, that a Ford just destroyed what arguably is a fascist machine.
Is it a moral act to destroy or disable Tesla before its unsafe ADAS will predictably crash at high speed into innocent people?
Did the F-150 save lives by taking this Tesla off the road? Who in your neighborhood is equipped and prepared to stop what could be seen as a VBED edition of the poorly-engineered Nazi V1? Floridians, looking at you.
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After years of Tesla deaths rapidly increasing, the real elephant in the room is… what if Tesla in fact intends to automate organized racist violent criminal acts like when Henry Ford had encouraged and helped Adolf Hitler?
What if Tesla conspires with large foreign financial backers to facilitate automated deaths for profit every minute it is “free” to apocalyptically continue “learning”; a model setup to get away with more harms to Americans?
