Tesla Fatal Accident Rate: 5.6 per billion miles Industry Average: 2.8 per billion miles Tesla’s fatality rate is double the industry average Source: iSeeCars 2024 Safety Study Year Fleet Size Growth Serious Incidents Fatal Incidents Key Patterns 2020 1x (baseline) 1x 1x Autopilot crashes into stationary objects 2021 1.5x 1.8x 1.6x Motorcycle collisions emerge as … Continue reading Tesla Safety Crisis: Engineering Failures and Corporate Denial 2018-2024→
Story after story tells the same sad story, how Tesla is a death trap putting innocent families on public roads in huge debt and grave danger. …corrective steering would kick in, trying to move my 3,500+ lb Lithium Ion detonator at 50 mph out of a danger that simply did not exist, and almost into … Continue reading Tesla Safety Feature Fraud is a “Death Trap”→
Quality of Tesla vehicles has been notoriously bad for years, and has been trending worse, which should be little surprise given how poorly it treats human life (from its workers and its customers to anyone in or around their product). Now top experts in automobile safety, who finally are getting some attention, aren’t mincing words … Continue reading Tesla Safety Negligence Finally Goes to Court: “Sore Thumb” of American Roads→
I just got off the phone with a technology reporter for a major newspaper, where I was asked about the risks of facial recognition. That’s a deep topic, since crime using faces (deepfakes, impersonation) can apply to almost anything (fraud/theft, racism, classicism). However, I ended the call by warning about even broader risks in recognition … Continue reading Tesla Safety Fail: “Full Self Driving” Can’t Read Even Basic Traffic Signals→
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