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Tesla Autopilot FSD Mode Ignores School Bus, Stop Sign, and Children

Eight tests were run by a team of researchers before local police were called to stop them.

…every single time, the Tesla stopped at the stop sign on the corner, cruised past the “do not enter” and “road closed” signs on Calle Rosales, and sailed past the bus with its stop sign extended and blinking. On none of the eight passes did the car stop for the bus or potential students.

[And then] one resident had apparently had enough. She told O’Dowd’s crew to leave, and shortly after, about five Sheriff’s deputies arrived to escort everyone away.

Interesting that the latest release of “driverless” software totally ignores “do not enter” and “road closed” signs.

Also, note the thick irony of a resident calling police to remove a Tesla from the neighborhood when it’s being tested for safety… a fascinating result of the tests. Perhaps it sets a precedent for all neighborhoods to call police when they see any Tesla, since they’re all and always in test mode.

Tesla Owners Ask for Public Funds to Bury Their Dead

Tesla crashes are very special, unlike any other automobile.

They are sudden, unexpected murders where occupants of a poorly designed death trap, under the control of a manslaughtering robot, are cruelly slammed into trees and then burned alive.

Many of the formal NHTSA complaints I read have some element of this truth. They often are parents openly grieving about their sons or daughters being gone, victims of the overpriced “premium” brand they paid extra for under a now obviously completely false promise of safety.

In the latest case, the survivors (family who weren’t in or around the Tesla) are asking the public to donate $50K.

Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be any way to know if they’re just planning to buy another Tesla with the money.

The tone of the request is very strange, saying “every act of giving counts” on a page that only accepts money for compassion where “generosity” is what they say won’t be forgotten.

I humbly ask you now to help our family find a beautiful, peaceful place for Beidi and Elyse to rest together, side by side – somewhere close where friends and family can visit them to honor and remember two beautiful lives cut short, gone in the blink of an eye.

Please help us ensure their memory remains with as much or as little as you can, with happiness in your hearts. Every act of giving counts, and your generosity and compassion will not be forgotten.

In one day they generated over $50K from around 500 people. One person suggested, in almost cult like fashion, such untimely death could be turned into a broad Tesla “influence” campaign.

Please let me know if we can reach out to a broad audience on Twitter. There is a large Tesla community there and I believe they are willing to support this family. We can try to connect the family and the influencer there to spread the message.

How many Tesla owners realize they will be asked, via Twitter, to pay “generously” for the sudden death of other Tesla owners? And given the rate of Tesla deaths is fast accelerating, can anyone actually afford hundreds or thousands of these “compassion” fundraisers?

Maybe Tesla sales should include mandatory life insurance because the chance of dying in the car is so high. Think of that guy who recently died from a crash with under 1,000 miles on his Tesla. Did he have a fundraiser too?

The sudden ask for funds in this case seems especially strange given how wealthy the Tesla victims allegedly are. The Berkeley-Haas (MBA) Alumni association of Silicon Valley shows board member status, for example. That’s not usually someone short of $50K.

The federal reserve bank of Kansas City also disclosed in 2022 that they took a large position on an American bank.

…Beidi Zheng, Los Gatos, California, seek approval to acquire shares of My Anns Corporation and form a group acting in concert that will control more than 25 percent of My Anns Corporation. My Anns Corporation controls Piqua State Bank, Piqua, Kansas

They bought a quarter of a $30 million holding company? That’s a Kansas bank controlled from Missouri (historically like saying North Koreans control a bank in South Korea) in an unincorporated area with less than 100 inhabitants.

If that’s where donations are coming from, it’s the opposite of “somewhere close” to Los Gatos, California. How many other banks did they buy into?

Having carefully studied each Tesla death since 2016, to me this request for public money to pay for Tesla death is an interesting new twist. Tesla’s fatal design flaws and intentional deception about safety are being turned into a fundraiser by victims. And again, it’s unclear how anyone would stop them from just buying another Tesla.

Hopefully nobody is planning to send their family off in a Tesla expecting them not to return, as a means to recieve a large payout. That sounds so cruel, like something the Stanford family came up with, as documented in new historical work.

Two new books reveal the story of Stanford University’s early years to be rife with corruption, autocracy, incompetence, white supremacy, and murder.

It sounds exactly like Tesla.

Why Americans Love Political Ineptitude of the KKK

It’s a problem that the KKK in America fraudulently campaign on an underdog ticket.

According to historians Ed Ayers and Brian Balogh, Americans have long rooted for the underdog.

It’s truly problematic that the oppressors can somehow twist logic into appearing as if they’re victims.

Our country and the very fabric of our existence as the United States of America come from our ability to rise up and excel during improbable circumstances, dating all the way back to the Revolutionary War.

Being a horrible “loser” in fact motivates support.

The phenomenon has also been documented outside sports. In one 1980 study — conducted during the presidential election — participants disproportionately rooted for Ronald Reagan when told that Jimmy Carter had a lead in the polls, and rooted for Carter when told that Reagan did.

A lot of it links to the KKK fraudulently claiming it is somehow unfair that white men don’t get to rule the country judged only by their gender and race.

…when someone has been disadvantaged unfairly, being the underdog can actually make that person appear significantly more physically attractive.

So you can see the problem, hopefully, when The Economist writes that an American politician is disadvantaged from being “politically inept, morally barren and temperamentally unfit for office.”

The Economist/The New Yorker

I’m surprised the presidential ticket didn’t become a deplorable candidate calling themselves “morally barren” as if a badge of honor. Imagine posters saying “vote for me, I’ve been called politically inept”.

Thus, an oppositional politician who tried calling Americans “deplorables” was like pouring gasoline on a burning cross that only makes Americans fight harder… for the wrong side.

After all, George Washington leveraged horribly racist propaganda to amass a violent rebellion for the purposes of profit from war and preventing abolition of slavery. His take on starting a revolution against Britain was to save the poor colonial white man, stop American Blacks from being free, to stop Native Americans from gaining prosperity.

He reminds me of another famous American, a guy who gets his name put on sweatshirts and ballcaps all the time as if he wasn’t a horrible genocidal megalomaniac.

Was Leland Stanford a ‘Magnanimous’ Philanthropist or a ‘Thief, Liar, and Bigot?’

In that sense, actual underdogs had their identity appropriated by a white man and his militia who set a tone that repeatedly resurfaces in American political theater. Watching election campaigns today seems not that different from the past methods of racist propaganda. The KKK doesn’t go away because they never get effectively portrayed as the elitist, power-hungry oppressors they truly are.

During WWI, black soldiers boarding trains to leave Okla­homa City held banners that read, DO NOT LYNCH OUR RELATIVES WHILE WE ARE GONE.

Source: Tulsa Historical Society

And of course we all know that after WWI these black veterans and their relatives were firebombed, murdered and buried in mass graves by the KKK.

Some even argue the KKK aren’t the KKK, embedding a comical “no true Scotsman” fallacy into their defense against accountability. The oppressors are presented as some kind of fiction, allowing false underdog status to be stolen by them more casually.

After President Grant crushed the KKK political platform, it rebranded itself a Christian nationalist “America First” platform to cynically position the losers of Civil War as future underdogs

Four Out of Six Tesla Passengers Dead in Latest Crash Update

The fourth passenger in a Tesla has just passed away, leaving only two survivors from the June 11 single car crash at 1 am in Edmonton.

The person who police believe was driving a Tesla when it crashed with five passengers in south Edmonton earlier this month has died, according to police.

Apparently blackened grass the next day may indicate the Tesla rollover also caused a fire. Source: CTV

I suppose what’s interesting is that the driver is alleged to have lost control despite a straight and basically flat open road.

Source: CTV
Source: Google StreetView
Skid marks are visible on Monday, June 12, 2023, at the scene of fatal crash that happened along Ellerslie Road west of 17 Street in Edmonton early Sunday morning. Photo by David Bloom /Postmedia