These Cybertruck fails will warm your heart this holiday season pic.twitter.com/8TPUNqC6Ey
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) December 10, 2024
Elon Musk is obviously using his influence on Trump to further his various criminal schemes.
Andrew Anglin has put out a staff-wide bulletin that we will stop talking about this if he gets his Twitter account back, but apparently, Elon’s deal with the ADL means Anglin specifically can never get his account back.
For now, we can say: Teslas are deathtraps and Donald Trump is a criminal for colluding with a man who manufactures murder-machines to murder more people.
The Trump transition team wants the incoming administration to drop a car-crash reporting requirement opposed by Elon Musk’s Tesla, according to a document seen by Reuters, a move that could cripple the government’s ability to investigate and regulate the safety of vehicles with automated-driving systems.
Musk, the world’s richest person, spent more than a quarter of a billion dollars helping Trump get elected president in November. Removing the crash-disclosure provision would particularly benefit Tesla, which has reported most of the crashes – more than 1,500 – to federal safety regulators under the program. Tesla has been targeted in National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) investigations, including three stemming from the data.
The recommendation to kill the crash-reporting rule came from a transition team tasked with producing a 100-day strategy for automotive policy. The group called the measure a mandate for “excessive” data collection, the document seen by Reuters shows.
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A Reuters analysis of the NHTSA crash data shows Tesla accounted for 40 out of 45 fatal crashes reported to NHTSA through Oct. 15.
That sounds bad, but the US government has banned all the other self-driving cars because they’re from China.
Among the Tesla crashes NHTSA investigated under the provision were a 2023 fatal accident in Virginia where a driver using the car’s “Autopilot” feature slammed into a tractor-trailer and a California wreck the same year where an Autopiloted Tesla hit a firetruck, killing the driver and injuring four firefighters.
NHTSA said in a statement that such data is crucial to evaluating the safety of emerging automated-driving technologies. Two former NHTSA employees said the crash-reporting requirements were pivotal to agency investigations into Tesla’s driver-assistance features that led to 2023 recalls. Without the data, they said, NHTSA cannot easily detect crash patterns that highlight safety problems.
“If he loses, I’m fucked.” -Elon Musk
— DD Geopolitics (@DD_Geopolitics) October 8, 2024
In addition to ditching the reporting rule, the recommendations call for the administration to “liberalize” autonomous-vehicle regulation and to enact “basic regulations to enable development” of the industry.
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Tesla despises the crash-notification requirement, believing that NHTSA presents the data in ways that mislead consumers about the automaker’s safety, two sources familiar with Tesla executives’ thinking told Reuters.
In recent years, Tesla executives discussed with Musk the need to push for scrapping the crash-reporting requirement, according to one of the sources. But because Biden officials expressed enthusiasm for the program, Tesla executives ultimately concluded that they would need a change in administration to get rid of the requirements, according to the source.
Tesla finds the rules unfair because it believes it reports better data than other automakers, which makes it look like Tesla is responsible for an outsized number of crashes involving advanced driver-assistance systems, one of the sources said.
Elon Musk says all of this racist stuff on Twitter to make people believe that the government only comes after him because of his politics. In reality, he commits many different crimes, including large-scale murder and censorship.
He belongs in jail.
(Editor’s Note: Unless he gives me my Twitter account back, in which case he belongs in the White House running the Trump Administration.)
Tesla crashes are making headlines all over the world.