Category Archives: Security

TX Tesla Kills Two by Crashing Into Hospital Wall

This news reads like another case of unintended acceleration.

…Tuesday at about 9:30 a.m. in the parking garage of the Methodist Hospital at 17201 North Freeway S.

The crash happened when a red Tesla was driving westbound through the parking lot. Authorities said the driver was going at a high rate of speed and hit a concrete wall.

The parking lot crash was of course next to the emergency room, but victims were sent to another location.

Think about the absurdly fast 0-60 performance of the Tesla when it’s combined with a significant design flaw. Most everyday drivers, let alone the octogenarians in this tragedy, don’t have the reaction speed required to prevent a Tesla-related tragedy.

The two victims were sent to another hospital ten minutes away (Memorial Herman Hospital of The Woodlands) where less than an hour later they succumbed to their injuries.

Tesla must be the first production car brand in history to so violently kill two people in a parking lot right outside hospital emergency rooms.

Unsafe Copy of Signal App Used to Spy on Ethnic Minorities

ESET reports the app went undetected in the Google Play store for a year:

The malicious Signal Plus Messenger app was initially uploaded to Google Play on July 7th, 2022, and it managed to get installed more than a hundred times. […] Based on code similarities, we can assign Signal Plus Messenger and FlyGram to the BadBazaar malware family, which has been previously used against Uyghurs and other Turkic ethnic minorities outside of China.

“Dodgy” French Flight Plan Data Blamed for Halting All UK Air Traffic

Integrity breaches are on track to be regulated if things like this keep happening.

Nearly 2,000 UK flights were cancelled affecting around a quarter-million passengers. Software error is being blamed.

Very annoyed British reporters are very annoyed with British air travel systems lacking more capable integrity controls that would prevent this availability failure.

Several sources told me that a French airline filed a dodgy flight plan that made no digital sense. Later on Tuesday, the Nats chief executive, Martin Rolfe, appeared to confirm reports that a rogue submission was responsible for the calamitous shutdown.

In a statement, the CEO indicated the organisation’s complex IT system defaulted to fail-safe mode when presented with anomalous data.

Mr Rolfe said: “Our systems, both primary and the back-ups, responded by suspending automatic processing to ensure that no incorrect safety-related information could be presented to an air traffic controller or impact the rest of the air traffic system.”

Surely the Nats system should automatically have identified an anomaly and spat out the plan, saying “try again”? Yet instead, the flight plan was ingested and set in train a shutdown of the entire system.

Surely.

I love that odd phrase “no digital sense”.

As in: this analog record of Paris cool jazz is so good, yo daddy oh, but you cats can’t have it online in London because it makes no digital sense. Yeah, man. Not even on CD. Do woo be boo bop. It will set in train a shutdown of your entire listening system. You dig?

Henri Renaud: Sextius Label: Vogue EPL 7177 7″ EP 1954 Photo: Jean-Pierre Leloir

Would the UK even exist if it didn’t have a history of accepting dodgy things from France?

But I digress… In actual fact, French passengers are constantly screened by the Brits to be safe and are allegedly rejected based on dodgy anomaly, why not French flight plans?

Easy, right?

And on that blue note, I wonder how the reporter would feel if flight plan capacity suddenly was halved by onerous screening requirements, or massive amounts of flights were shutdown by screening errors.

ID Tesla Kills Four in “Veered” Head-on Crash Into Truck

Yet another brand new Tesla in yet another “veered” head-on collision.

ISP says the crash occurred when a 2022 Tesla driven by a 46-year-old Mantua, Utah woman heading eastbound on State Highway 33 just west of Driggs crossed the center line and collided head-on with a 2007 Kenworth commercial vehicle…

Eastbound on Highway 33, just west of Driggs, Idaho. Lane markings are weak. Source: Google Maps

All four passengers in the Tesla including a child were killed.

Instead of software suicide by “veering” into a tree, or under a truck, this Tesla ran the head-on-into-opposite-lane routine. Who can forget just a year ago

Capt. Steve Biakanja’s children — his 14-year-old twin daughters Leigh and Lucy, and his 12-year-old son Ben — and his ex-wife, 53-year-old Lisa Biakanja, were returning home after a day at Casa de Fruta, KSBW reported. They were all killed at the scene when the vehicle swerved from the westbound lane of Highway 156 into the eastbound lane over solid double yellow lines, colliding with a tractor-trailer, the California Highway Patrol said.

And there have been many more similar cases since, such as tragedy in Tahoe the NHTSA has just highlighted, or this guy’s story.

Fred Lambert, a noted Tesla enthusiast and editor-in-chief of the electric vehicle blog Electrek… submitted a bug report to Tesla: “Autopilot just tried to kill me, so please fix it.” He seems to think this is a problem arising from FSD’s latest updates, what he describes as a “new aggressive bug.” That may be true, as Tesla has had to roll back crash-causing updates in the past…

Crash-causing aggressive bugs. New and worse. As in DO NOT get in or be around a Tesla. The NHTSA has just sent a letter demanding to know exactly where and when the cars ignore basic safety rules by design.

A Tesla officer has to respond to the letter under oath by Aug. 25 or the agency will refer the matter to the Justice Department, which can seek a maximum penalty of more than $131 million.

Let that sink in for a minute. $131 million sounds big but no amount of penalty money will bring back all the people killed by a “veered” Tesla.

An abrupt “veer” across yellow lines at night into the headlights of a giant truck immediately suggests “Autopilot” fraud let alone a “FSD” fraud expansion, as described by those who dare to enable the software. It’s especially suspect on a clear and dry (0.08″ precipitation, 50F low) Idaho highway at 10pm, given it fits the pattern.

While it is still early to say whether hardware, software or both are to blame, police reports ponder over yet another middle-aged woman in a Tesla suddenly “veering” at high speed with children to sudden death. There seems here to be more tragic evidence of Tesla’s fatally defective designs.