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edhopper

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Sun Jul 6, 2025, 09:10 AM Jul 2025

the terrifying truth about why Tesla's cars keep crashing [View all]

Long article about how seriously dangerous Tesla cars are. Musk must be happy he squashed all the investigations into his companies.The flaws are numerous, but the upshot is Tesla's kill people because they use untested technology and then hide the faults.
One example from the article.

There’s more. Two years prior, the NHTSA had flagged something strange – something suspicious. In a separate report, it documented 16 cases in which Tesla vehicles crashed into stationary emergency vehicles. In each, autopilot disengaged “less than one second before impact” – far too little time for the driver to react. Critics warn that this behaviour could allow Tesla to argue in court that autopilot was not active at the moment of impact, potentially dodging responsibility.


https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/05/the-vehicle-suddenly-accelerated-with-our-baby-in-it-the-terrifying-truth-about-why-teslas-cars-keep-crashing
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