So "X" - nothing to see here. Elon's in control - Part XXX

I'll believe the independent NHTSA over report produced by Tesla to justify a Tesla product, thanks.

Teslas are ugly, badly built cars that are about as reliable - drivetrain aside - as a 1980s British Leyland but without the wonky charm (and I suspect that if Tesla made ICE cars they'd be as reliable as 80s BL for drivetrain too). And now it turns out that their main 'feature' is exceptionally unsafe.

Actually it turns out it's much more safer than human driving but hey, it's ugly.

Wondering if that report excludes the Teslas that disengages autopilot pre crash. On top of that, independent reports rather than Tesla reports are relevant. Every company will make it self look fantastic in their studies that they make public...

Forbes actually have a writeup on the quality of their reports. But I'm sure you did the necessary digging rather than going direct to Tesla, right?

Ugh well that's me definitely not joining Mastodon then.

It's sad to see - no, actually a disgrace to see - a company like Tesla make all of the same mistakes which were made in the aviation world decades ago, and then add a few new ones on top.

Autopilot - the real one, for planes - is fine within what it's meant to do but has to be monitored at all times. When the shít hits the fan it'll throw its robotic hands in the air, disconnect, and "let the pilot take over" - except having let the aircraft get into that state, the pilot clearly isn't up to speed with what the aircraft is doing so the chances of figuring out what is wrong and correcting it in time are slim.

The parallels with Tesla's half-baked "Autopilot" are obvious, how many has Elon's marketing gimmick killed so far? Cnut.

I wonder how many Boards accounts de Mammeh has?

There is no contradiction between these two reports. The safety record report shows that autopilot is generally safe, much more safer than human drivers, and the one calling for the recall highlights a safety concern which Tesla acknowledged and they will fix it.

Reminds me of

Plenty of people have raised concerns about the accuracy and transparency of their reports. They could simply publicly release the data for analysis or independently verify it if they were confident in accuracy.

I would say more than anything, that you tend to conclude Elon is wonderful in every way so tend to be happy with cherry picked data to support your conclusions. Also worth remembering that this is the same company that was happy to mislead in relation to accidents in the workplace so wouldn't be surprising for them to do it with their cars as well.

No one, absolutely no one, will take their shiny stainless steel pride and joy on a muddy snowy trail. Marketing **** and actual market study and targeting are completely different things.

Are you denying the reality of the video that was posted? Someone literally did what you are claiming nobody would do. Also like others have pointed out this has been marketed as all terrain from day one, blaming the customers because musk lied and they should have known better is kinda just proving everyone's point about him.

No one bar one or two, happy?

Yes, I provided with some context and explanations, from here it's your job to read or disagree, I don't really care. It's not like you haven't made up your mind already.

That has always been the angle in the automotive industry, that is the most unsafe and inefficient mean of travel and transportation.

Musk defenders every time they're caught out.

I agree, the Cybertruck is not aimed as replacement for a craftsmen who use a Ford F150, its a lifestyle car. e.g. my neighbor who works in IT and needs a car to drive the kids 500 meter to school, dreams of getting a Ford Raptor. No idea what he wants to do with it.

This is the targeted group for that thing. Affluent (upper) middle class people who are being sold to save the world by using a cybertruck.

It's all that, and also it will sell like hotcakes. You know it will.

Defend ridiculous truck, defend absurd tweets, defend terrible business decision, defending the questionable firing of thousands of workers after said bad business decision

Almost as if there's a systematic pattern..

Contrary guy is contrary.

Just saw this account on Threads. Mr "Free Speech Absolutist" can't ban this one.