this was also always a lie

[solarbird]

Elon Musk’s oft-quoted declarations about Tesla “autopilot” being safer than human drivers was always a lie:

Tesla keeps these paying liability sponges behind the wheel largely through the strength of a statistical lie: that Autopilot is safer than human drivers. … When road safety researcher Noah Goodall adjusted the best publicly available data for factors like road type and driver age in a peer-reviewed paper, Tesla’s claim of a 43% reduction in crashes turned into an 11% increase in crashes.

Ed Niedermeyer for Rolling Stone, “Elon Musk’s Big Lie About Tesla Is Finally Exposed,” December 17, 2023

Lots more deets at the link.

I’ve had Musk’s and Tesla’s autopilot numbers thrown at me for years. They’re bullshit. Please stop fanboying this fascist marketeer fuckhead. He’s not Tony FUCKING Stark and he never was.

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Comments

[rmd]

I mean, there's the joke about how people thought he was a modern Henry Ford and instead he's a modern Henry Ford, but at least Ford could make a car that doesn't blow up very often.

[solarbird]

Modern Henry Ford (changing the automobile industry) vs. Modern Henry Ford (massive anti-Semite), you mean?

John Oliver's latest Last Week Tonight addresses that directly.

[rmd]

Exactly.