Just a reminder that the 27 deaths from the Ford Pinto 1970-1977 came within context of Ford marketing the car as safe.
Tesla, by comparison, is reporting three times as many fire deaths as the Pinto in just half the time.
Allegedly the Tesla crashed when its “driverless” algorithm attempted a high speed maneuver to pass a trash truck on its left, despite an obvious large concrete barrier blocking that path.
A Tesla rode about 100 yards on top of a Jersey barrier on Interstate 76 Friday morning. The crash led to two people being hospitalized.
Blindness to barriers has been an ongoing problem for the highly defective Tesla software. Think of it like this, the hardware and software is so bad at 3D space recognition it can’t deduce that a concrete barrier is vertical with oncoming traffic behind it, instead just seeing the flat concrete as a horizontal empty lane.
These Tesla owners were lucky to survive, given so many other cases where deaths followed sudden acceleration forward crashing into the back of a truck.
Many dozens have been killed by Tesla’s aggressive campaigns of “Full Self Driving” turning out to be the opposite of what was advertised.
Hello fellow journalists. As you may know I exposed a while ago how independent reporting (e.g. TeslaDeaths.com) has been the most reliable source of Tesla safety data, because Trump intentionally gutted the NHTSA since 2016.
Here’s what happened after Trump deregulation.
Let the independent investigations begin (again)!
Not only are fast rising Tesla deaths from design defects worse than any car in history, we’re now seeing how blame goes straight to intentional anti-safety management decisions.
Journalists have been putting together a unified database in a bid to match those cases with corresponding NHTSA submissions. This allowed WSJ journalists to discover details about 222 crashes involving Tesla Autopilot.
Of them, 44 occurred when Teslas on Autopilot veered suddenly off the road. In 31 crashes, Tesla EVs driving on Autopilot failed to stop or yield for an obstacle in front of it. These two types of crashes account for the most serious injuries and deaths in the cases the WSJ unlocked.
The investigation revealed that Tesla’s driver assistance systems have difficulties in low-visibility situations. Tesla’s reliance on a vision-only sensor set has been blamed for such crashes, and videos extracted from the Autopilot computers showed that the system failed to acknowledge obscured objects when others, more visible, were also in the picture.
Put a blindfold on, tie your hands behind your back, and call yourself the future oracle of seeing things! That’s Tesla.
The company is such an obvious fraud, a dirty money laundering catastrophe, it’s only a matter of time before the Enron of transit disappears from the weight of its own stupidity.
Card Systems had to be shutdown by the card brands themselves who were suffering tens of millions of harmed accounts. But in Tesla’s case they seem to literally bank on the idea that killing customers with fraud carries no accountability other than hush-money settlements with survivors.
America is awash in billionare grifter crimes from an unregulated and undermined market being artificially hedged by intentionally bad actors.
Tesla is a tragedy. Say goodbye to anyone stepping in or around one, because they won’t have long to live.
In what engineers are calling a breakthrough in artificial deaf-and-blindness, a Tesla automobile has successfully ignored bright red traffic signals and crashed into the broadside of a big yellow school bus in Visalia, California.
The infamously flammable vehicle, apparently believing that large yellow rectangles are merely suggestions, demonstrated its commitment to ignoring basic road safety by collecting a complete set: red light, school bus, and common sense, all in one maneuver from the future of transit.
The company’s mostly alien and foreign-visa engineering team (unable to quit the horrible company without being deported from America) have mastered the art of not seeing things that any distracted toddler could still identify. It is said they now are working on their next breakthrough: convincing investors that crashing into a clearly marked SCHOOL bus is all part of their genius valuation plan.
A crash between a Visalia Unified school bus and a Tesla caused major damage after the car allegedly ran a stop light on Wednesday, the Visalia Police Department said. According to Visalia Police, the crash happened around 2:20 p.m. at the intersection of Akers Street and Ferguson Avenue in Visalia.
Industry experts note this is merely the latest achievement in Tesla’s ongoing mission to transform “autopilot” from a reassuring term into an anxiety trigger.
This is a repeat problem with Tesla, due to their CEO spending far too much time censoring liberal speech and erasing any criticism of his ballooning technical debt, instead of actually paying bills and well, paying attention.
His latest act has been throwing fist fulls of dollars at American and German politicians, hoping they’ll be as blind to Tesla failures as his cars are to pedestrians. When asked about such mounting safety concerns, the CEO of Tesla pointed to his mountain of campaign receipts from anti-woke politicians and suggested that if American school buses don’t want to get hurt, they shouldn’t dress so provocatively yellow.