Monday, June 20, 2022

Every Tesla car crash is Operator Error

Earlier this month another MV-22 Osprey crashed, killing all Marines aboard, which brought back memories of the Department of Defense repeated defense of the fragile tilt-rotor aircraft, by ascribing every crash to 'pilot error'.  I'm thankful I didn't have to fly in one when I was in the Corps.

The NHTSA has revealed that during Tesla Autopilot crashes, the autopilot, "aborted vehicle controls less than one second prior to the impact."  The despicable, odious, Apartheid lovin' Elon Musk, has repeatedly cast all the crashes involving his shit-boxes as driver error.  

MotorTrend took pains, in their article to label those pointing out that this is damning evidence as"Tin-foil-hat types" and stated the intent of the Autopilot deactivations is a "mystery" and there's no evidence (published yet) that it's nefarious, because they don't won't to alienate the Tesla fanboys or Musk's company by accurately reporting that Tesla Motors, while once considered cutting edge and iconic, is no longer a technological leader and is fading fast due to Elon Musk's despicable behavior and borderline personality disorder.

This, of course, ignores the long history of corporate malfeasance in America and elsewhere as companies have more than willingly sentenced people to death because they know the rules of large numbers mean that while a certain number of people will be harmed people can rest assured surely no company would ever harm it's customers!  Still, MotorTrend couldn't help but proclaim those who are less than trusting of Deplorable Musk and Tesla programmers and would ascribe bad intent to a company are nutters;

From where we're sitting, it'd be fairly idiotic to knowingly program Autopilot to throw control back to a driver just before a crash in the hopes that black-box data would absolve Tesla's driver assistance feature of error.

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