The 2023 Tesla Autopilot crash rate numbers were released last month, leading to serious doubts about company ethics. Notably, Tesla hides crash data where they claim Autopilot was “disengaged”, despite data from all the other “active safety features” still enabled.
“A note on Tesla’s revised safety report crash rates”, by Noah J. Goodall CET Research, the United States of America
As the report author Tweeted:
The revisions don’t make statistical sense, and I suspect Tesla is miscounting crashes to make Autopilot look safer.
We know, for example, how local traffic news reports a dangerous rise in Tesla deaths at a rate far, far higher than the brand itself admits or reports to the NHTSA. When Trump was in the White House, the Tesla CEO visited in person and all the Autopilot deaths were held off the record for four years until President Biden was elected. Regulators have suggested Tesla may suppress over 80% of crash reports, based on what police have documented.
This new scientific peer-reviewed report also comes on the heels of an explosive WSJ story (no pun intended), alleging Tesla safety misconduct and fraud.
Inside the WSJ’s Investigation of Tesla’s Autopilot Crash Risks:
Cars using Autopilot sometimes struggle to recognize obstacles or stay on the road
Sometimes? It looks like without fraud that there would be no Tesla.
Worth a listen: Many people are pointing out how this expert’s mic was shut down just as he started to explain the real cause of violent riots. Elon Musk is accused of curating the extremist platform xTwitter like a modern Dearborn Independent.
That’s a former chief superintendent of the Met Police saying out loud that Elon Musk’s spread of extremist right-wing content poses a direct threat to national security and public safety… if you listen closely.
When Sky flipped to their next guest, apparently again it was said that Elon Musk has undermined safety by pushing toxic hate speech on xTwitter, intentionally stoking conflict.
‘A polarisation engine’: how social media has created a ‘perfect storm’ for UK’s far-right riots
Keep calm and carry on… calling out Musk for being a threat to society.
I’m hoping the UK terrorism teams are able to trace and expose the links between Russia and xTwitter, uncovering riots and social media hate campaigns as Putin’s typical game plan.
The PM has already hinted at the coordinated nature of Musk’s weird role.
“What we’ve seen in this country is organized, illegal thuggery which has no place on our streets or online.”
Organized and orchestrated by… Musk or Putin… or both?
This summary analysis published in The Guardian is perhaps what Putin knows best and is exploiting with his American “business” contacts.
Lord Walney, the government’s independent adviser on political violence and disruption, has suggested that the current legal and regulatory framework is insufficient when faced by this kind of “rolling rabble-rousing”. How to tackle this manufactured chaos is among the biggest challenges now facing Sir Keir Starmer’s government.
Rolling rabble rousing is a nice phrase to describe Elon Musk’s role. Manufactured chaos is another nice phrase. The British really do have a way with words.
And that’s really just a new take on an actual 1930s cartoon.
Elon Musk has recently setup a Extreme-right Political Action Committee (America PAC), similar to how America First was organized and operated to promote Hitler.
Or as the associate editor of the Financial Times just put it:
DPS says the Cybertruck was traveling westbound when it left the north side of the road and struck a large concrete culvert. […] Authorities have not yet identified the Cybertruck by its license plate or Vehicle Identification Number (VIN). Additionally, the identity of the driver remains unknown due to severe burns sustained in the crash.
News reports say it “struck a culvert” in the middle of open fields, which appears to mean it drove into a giant ditch with a buried concrete box.
Very hard to see how going over this culvert could cause the kind of explosive fire that traps and kills anyone in the vehicle.
30mph speed limit?
Presumably it must have crashed straight into the east side of the concrete box at such a high speed, it exploded all the way into the west side of the ditch.
When you look at it from this angle, it actually looks like a road ahead. At 2AM I wonder if the culvert wasn’t visible and the driver thought heading north off the road was actually an option.
Source: Google Maps
It may have been someone trying to off-road at night in what they were told was a vehicle that could survive anything.
…Tesla’s recent past of releasing misleading videos would make any wise consumer pause, but even in its own video the truck seems to shatter rather than crumple in a head-on collision.
Basically Tesla self-tested the Cybertruck and never had it verified. As you probably now can guess from this tragedy, their “self-test” result was not good.
Smashing into a fixed object proved the Cybertruck sends energy directly into the cabin passengers, as there’s no tell-tale ripple through roofline or along the chassis causing tail lights to shatter instead.
Before I get to the Toyota crash, let’s recognize that all the news lately about Cybertruck design failure has centered on a very high profile towing incident, from a social media personality’s durability test.
Allegedly the Cybertruck attempt to pull unstuck another truck, instead completely ripped the back of the Tesla frame off.
I probably don’t need to say more here about the video because it generated like 5 million views in 2 days.
Yet, I just want to say this hints at how any cheap tow line quietly strapped anywhere to a Cybertruck’s frame… might instantly damage it catastrophically. Who already knew the “apocalypse-ready” road warrior could be defeated by a $50 tow strap and a gentle tug? It’s like bringing a knife to a gunfight, except the knife is made of Elon Musk white supremacist Technocracy-grade tinfoil and the gun is… well, just about anything else on wheels.
But hey, maybe the “WankPanzer” is actually a revolutionary self-disassembling vehicle. No need for a junkyard when your truck helpfully falls apart at the slightest provocation. It’s not a bug, it’s a feature that the thing can’t really be used without failure!
Remember everyone, in the race between “extreme survival” and “extreme embarrassment,” this stainless steel folly is breaking land speed records. At this rate, the only thing it has been towing is Tesla’s reputation – straight into the dumpster. But don’t worry, I’m sure there’s a software update coming to fix pesky laws of physics that break everything, even the lowly wiper, when the real world shows up.
This chromed colossus is the ultimate accessory for the discerning dictator-in-training: a $100K bulletproof binky for budding Benitos.
Hear them wail: “Waaaah! The world’s so scary! Quick, Elon, swaddle me in stainless steel! I need my angular armor to fend off the diverse hordes!”
But wait, there’s more! Act now and we’ll throw in a free copy of “Mein Kampf-y Chair” – perfect for those long drives to Cyberstormtroopers rallies setup with xTwitter. Who did Nazi this coming?
Meanwhile, for the second time in just a few months, an inexpensive, simple and efficient Toyota Corolla just permanently wiped another Cybertruck off the road.
Notably I found the crash reported mainly through TikTok. Shocker, right? Turns out, folks prefer their vehicle fails without a side of racist rants and “Civil War 2.0” battle plans. While Elon’s digital hellscape echoes with calls for insurrection, TikTok’s busy showcasing his real-world engineering flop. It’s almost poetic – the “future-proof” truck crumbling on a platform he doesn’t control, while his own social media empire tumbleweeds into irrelevance. Once again proving that not all publicity is good publicity, especially when it comes with a garnish of sedition.
Far-right American militias pose the greatest threat, and they are predominantly built from the bottom up, by mundane, practical drivers — for instance, as anti-vaccine activists become anti-government activists. There do not appear to be strong links between them and foreign organizations except among white supremacist groups, and even that is mainly online, through propaganda mechanisms…
Online propaganda mechanisms link foriegn funds to American white supremacists? No wonder Musk bought Twitter claiming he had a new “extreme speech” funding model.
Musk’s digital megaphone has been blaring civil war rhetoric for months, echoing suspiciously pro-Kremlin talking points.
Former Russian President Medvedev Predicts U.S. Civil War & Elon Musk Becoming President In 2023
Musk’s Twitter posts seem tailor-made to sow anti-Western, anti-democratic sentiment and potentially incite domestic extremism. In April 2024, Russian military website topwar.ru eagerly amplified Musk’s ominous prediction:
[Dumb stuff Russia says will] cause large-scale civil wars in Western countries. American entrepreneur Elon Musk made such a rather gloomy forecast on his social network account.
The dire forecasts keep missing the mark, but Musk remains undeterred, relentlessly doubling down on his doomsday predictions while undermining public safety.
His track record with predictions is about as reliable as a Cybertruck about to tow something. Remember when he confidently promised Mars walks by 2018 or a million robotaxis by 2020? These weren’t just the musings of a man on a bender; they were projects he claimed were easily achievable under his direct control — yet they disappeared faster than tweets Musk censors when they don’t align with his views.
Musk’s continual prophecies of civil war might turn out to be as accurate as his many promises about the Cybertruck’s durability. False, yet extremely dangerous to prove for many of his followers willing to throw their lives away.
If he can’t even deliver on basic vehicle manufacturing — his supposed area of expertise — how trustworthy are his wild forecasts in fields he knows little about?
Musk’s dog whistle tries to reference 1929 as the rise of Hitler in order to incite racist violence today.
It seems the only thing Musk reliably produces is a deluge of hate speech, violent incitement, dead followers, broken promises and unfulfilled predictions… whether they involve “Mars Technocracy” (read: creating a white ethno-state like apartheid-era South Africa) or trying to inflame societal collapse (read: creating a white ethno-state like apartheid-era South Africa).
Maybe there’s a pattern here… apartheid guy is still trying to apartheid.
