For years the Tesla CEO has deceptively marketed his cars as ready for driverless and, as they failed, asked his victims for increased advance fees to achieve his promises of the future.

And now the Tesla CEO has just officially warned his victims that they will never get the driverless features he promised them. It turns out, unfortunately still surprising some, that his advance fee fraud schemes were always in fact… fraud.

After a disappointing earnings call, the CEO softly landed the awful truth beneath years of unaccountable lies.

We are not 100 percent sure. HW4 [a hard pivot made last year, admitting failure of earlier versions] has several times the capability of HW3. It’s easier to get things to work on HW4 and it takes a lot of efforts to squeeze that into HW3. There is some chance that HW3 does not achieve the safety level that allows for unsupervised FSD.

Talk about an understatement. The CEO has some doubt that his cars can ever achieve the safety level that allows for driverless?

This is the man who had said if anyone ever criticized Tesla for safety issues, he would accuse them of killing people.

That’s not an exaggeration or a misquote. Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk took an aggressive stance against critics of his company’s autonomous driving technology, making two notable declarations. In 2016, he claimed that those who criticized Tesla’s technical approach were directly responsible for causing deaths. He escalated this position in 2018, arguing that any criticism of Tesla’s driverless technology would result in fatalities by eroding public trust in autonomous vehicles and deterring adoption.

Let me be even more clear.

In this new 2024 earnings call the Tesla CEO claimed that FSD will somehow be safer than a human by Q2 2025. The future! Got that?

Ok, now watch his investor call in 2016 when he coldly declared that Tesla had already surpassed this milestone.

Mission accomplished 2016.

So here he is, eight years later, being critical of all the HW3 on the roads like nobody yet should trust it… after arguing that such criticism will kill people.

Who’s the real killer, by a real measure of intentionally misleading people? The data speaks for itself, with Tesla clearly being far less safe than any other brand.

Also what is this nonsense about it being easier to work with HW4? Is the Tesla motto now that they can’t work on the hard things?

Driverless is known for being one of the hardest problems in transit to solve. The CEO is admitting (albeit subtlely) his company will never actually solve it — as they can only work on the easy things.

Futurism now literally refers to Tesla as an “astonishing screwup.” That’s a funny way to spell F-R-A-U-D.

Police say this Tesla had right of way when it failed to avoid a fatal crash.

A two-car collision in the center of Murphy killed a passenger in one of the vehicles, police said. Lt. Adana Barber said police and fire department units responded at 9:01 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 24, to a major accident at the intersection of FM 544 and Murphy Road. “A silver Nissan had failed to yield right-of-way to a black Tesla,” Barber said. “The passenger of the Nissan was pronounced deceased at the scene.”

At this point, one might wonder why we read about Indian families so frequently in the news mourning their losses to Tesla.

Four people are dead and another is in hospital after a Tesla driving through downtown Toronto at a high rate of speed crashed into a guardrail and struck a concrete pillar on Lake Shore Boulevard.

It happened in the eastbound lanes of the busy road, east of Cherry Street, shortly before 12:15 a.m.

“The vehicle lost control, struck a guardrail and then struck a concrete pillar. Upon impact, the vehicle then caught fire,” Duty Inspector Phillip Sinclair told reporters Thursday morning.

Apparently some people still haven’t got the memo that Tesla are such poor quality they become death traps. Many Indian upwardly mobile families apparently fall victim to targeted fraud, buying into a false privilege ticket that ends up killing them.

One person survived the crash, thanks to bystanders with a metal pole who rushed to smash a window after the doors failed to open. Tesla has a long-standing door release defect that causes many of its crash victims to be burned to death while trapped inside.

After Uber was introduced to London streets, the rate of hit and run accidents rose 40%.

The economics of transit contractors in borrowed cars should have predicted the shift, especially given it was a known problem of hackers in the 1800s when ride share was invented. The unbalanced incentives of driverless cars are even more stark, as low quality robot engineering will push hit and run rates even higher.

Tesla is showing the effects already, as reported by victims.

She was parked in the mall parking lot when another car crashed into hers.

“I couldn’t believe what I was seeing,” she said. “I saw no one in the car. There was no driver, no passenger. It was an empty car that was driving itself into my car.”

She said the Tesla scraped the back of her car as it pulled out and “kept going after impact.”

And when I say predictable, I mean easily predictable.

…Tesla [driverless] happens to have the highest number of crashes by a vast margin. Teslas reported 183 more crashes than second place Honda, and 263 more than third place Subaru…

By a vast margin, Tesla is worse than any other brand. The company is fraud. It shamelessly peddles terrible and unworkable designs, with a high likelihood of causing serious harm to society.