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 with the Tesla death rate after Trump’s 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.