Here’s the buried bombshell lede in the latest safety news about childish milquetoast fiddling that Tesla still tries to pass off as engineering. Phil Koopman, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University who studies automated driving safety, said the letter shows that the recall did little to solve problems with Autopilot and was an attempt to … Continue reading “Tesla tried to do the least possible [safety] remedy to see [how many deaths] they could get away with” →

Officially there have been 29 avoidable deaths, according to a new U.S. government report on Tesla’s fatally flawed Autopilot design. In total, NHTSA investigated 956 crashes, starting in January 2018 and extending all the way until August 2023. Of those crashes, some of which involved other vehicles striking the Tesla vehicle, 29 people died. There … Continue reading NHTSA Increases Official Report to 29 (out of 44) Deaths From Tesla Autopilot →

TeslaDeaths.com has 41 ADAS fatalities in their latest tally (out of many hundreds killed by Tesla), yet NHTSA was reported by the Washington Post in January 2023 to be investigating far fewer fatalities. 17 fatalities, 736 crashes: The shocking toll of Tesla’s Autopilot. Driver-assistance system has been involved in far more crashes than previously reported … Continue reading NHTSA ADAS SGO and TeslaDeaths.com Compared →

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in 1989 issued it’s bold final report on the Audi 5000 “sudden unintended acceleration problem.” The NHTSA fully exonerated the German car maker by asserting pedals placed closer together than in other cars caused confusion. It was reasoned (especially models with “cruise control”) that the gas would be … Continue reading Are Tesla Sudden Unintended Acceleration Deaths a Repeat of 1980s Audi 5000 Defects? →