They just can’t seem to get their cars right. NHTSA Campaign Number: 22V844000 Manufacturer: Tesla, Inc. Components: EXTERIOR LIGHTING Potential Number of Units Affected: 321,628 Summary: Tesla, Inc. (Tesla) is recalling certain 2023 Model 3 and 2020-2023 Model Y vehicles. One or both taillights may intermittently fail to illuminate. It’s hard to understand why anyone would buy a … Continue reading It’s January 1 and 2023 Tesla Model 3 Already Has a Safety Recall→
What if I told you Tesla is a giant Ponzi scheme? Hopefully you’d correct me and say no, it’s actually much worse, and then explain the big difference: In classic Ponzi scheme analysis people will lose all their money. Ponzis of today are a whole lot more complicated and a whole lot more careful about … Continue reading Tesla Announces Bleeding Its Customers Dry Before They’re Killed in a Fire→
Clearly I’m a huge fan of Tesla CEO Elon Musk and have a lot of respect for him. You can read all about it in my many posts on Tesla engineering practices. Just kidding. But seriously, I’ve just read a very bizarre article by an automotive automation expert (redundant, I know) about Tesla’s “self-driving” software. … Continue reading The T in Tesla Stands for Trash: Owners Now Face Criminal Prosecution→
You may be interested to hear that researchers have posted an “automation” proof-of-concept for ethics. Delphi is a computational model for descriptive ethics, i.e., people’s moral judgments on a variety of everyday situations. We are releasing this to demonstrate what state-of-the-art models can accomplish today as well as to highlight their limitations. It’s important to … Continue reading Is Shooting at a Tesla Ethical?→