Cybertruck forums are now littered with “excited” new owners who discuss how pleased they still are to be stuck in a loop, treated horribly by Tesla in what appears to be a giant Advance Fee Fraud.

These Tesla victims would be in a much better place if they just reported to police they had been swindled into sending $100k to a fake African prince they met via email.

Without fraud there would be no Tesla.

…study attributes Tesla’s growing problems to a negative response from customers…

Notably, serious mental gymnastics are required of Tesla’s victims to remain loyal and dig deeper into their relationship with a fraud prince.

Really disappointed but I took delivery anyways. No regrets but not a good delivery experience.

Really disappointed. No regrets.

What does fraud look like? People are putting down $7,000 in advance fees, assuming $100,000 of paper debt (the vehicle is worthless), for the worst car in history that will regularly break down until they are abruptly killed.

Advance fee fraud.

Some even say the quiet part out loud.

It’s more important to Tesla to have the sale in Q2 than to make you happy.

As if customers feeling stuck under the rule of a fraud prince while being unsafe and unhappy is an actual business strategy? See also: why slave-based monarchy died.

Thank you. Thank you.

The environmental regulators of California keep finding Tesla engaged in illegal toxic harms.

In February, a California judge ordered the company to pay $1.5 million as part of a settlement of a civil case alleging the company mishandled hazardous waste at its car service centers, energy centers and a factory.

That was just a few months ago, when Tesla told prosecutors it would do better. Now this:

Tesla has been ordered to fix air quality problems at one of its electric vehicle manufacturing facilities.

The car maker racked up more than 100 violations for allegedly releasing toxic emissions into the atmosphere from the San Francisco Bay plant over the past five years, an air quality board said on Tuesday.

The Bay Area Air Quality Management District planned to issue a written abatement order later this week after Tuesday’s announcement.

Each of the 112 violations can emit hundreds of pounds of illegal air pollution, the board said

A brand new Tesla in Maine, sporting the latest “safety” engineering claims, just killed another person.

The single-vehicle crash was reported at around 10:45 a.m. near 752 Harrison Road, according to Captain Kerry Joyce of the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office.

The car, later identified by the sheriff’s office as a 2024 Tesla, a fully electric vehicle, crashed into a tree at high speed and caught fire, the sheriff’s office said.

The driver, Sergi Kolesnick, 33, of Harrison was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police mention being on the scene for more than four hours, closing a busy road completely, like a bomb exploded with a significant environmental hazard.

In a release, police said “the crash presented significant hazard to first responders and area residents due to the vehicle involved and complexity of the crash scene.”

Crews worked for hours to keep the fires from spreading to a nearby home and the woods.

As of 3 p.m., the road was still closed and crews were still working to contain and clean up hazardous materials.

This Tesla case is very similar to the latest one in California and another one in Florida, with a pattern of sudden “veered” crashes into a tree.

Also Tesla has just gone to court to fight with a grieving family. It appears to want to overturn the Ford Pinto precedent, as it claims car manufacturers should have zero liability even for deadly intentional safety design flaws.

…disputes that it is liable for any damages whatsoever…

The last time that Tesla dragged a grieving family through five years of brutal documentation and expensive lawyers, the car company then abruptly turned face and settled on the day a trial was set to actually start.

Year after year the Tesla engineers have failed to get their “self-driving” software to recognize railroad tracks properly and safely. Remember the Palo Alto incident?

So here we are, a decade later with nothing fixed, as if Tesla has been lying about their capability this whole time:

Terrible reporting in the video, as their chosen “experts” both are invested in people buying Tesla and didn’t show any expertise at all. Here, allow me to help. Let’s start with Vancouver news from THREE MONTHS AGO:

Then look at California news from SIX MONTHS AGO:

And then we can go on and on and on, where Tesla itself has been repeatedly proven to fail at train tracks…

• 2024 flyingpenguin: FSD v12.3.6 “…slammed on the brakes in the middle of the train tracks. And just sat there. It would not go…”
• 2023 Reddit: Literally just watched a guy park his Tesla on the train track
• 2022 Washington Post: Tesla tries to drive down some light-rail tracks
• 2022 Daily Mail: Tesla feature attempts to drive down some light-rail tracks, mistaking it for a road
• 2022 Reddit: Tesla thinks the train is a bunch of slow trucks

Train tracks are a known defect in Tesla software, which I’ve watched and confirmed myself. Notably, neither “expert” in the news segment put their Tesla to an actual test with train tracks! Driving the journalist down the same route that a Tesla is driven every day (as described by the owner) is irrelevant to this story about railroad crossings, and it also should be pointed out the “expert” describes his Tesla struggling and “crazy” even at that basic level. Why didn’t this reporter call BS and say “TAKE ME TO A TRAIN TRACK FOR A REAL STORY OR GTFO”.

When low angle sunlight hits shiny metal railroad tracks, for example, this poorly designed car registers “yellow” and “white” lines instead as if it should turn onto them; as if fresh bright lines mean that a newly painted road can just magically appear out of nowhere.

And on that note, who can forget the very stark U.S. government regulator warnings and proposed technology solutions back in 2016 after a human tragically followed their navigation app onto a railroad track causing a fatality?

On Monday, after investigating the crash for almost two years, the National Transportation Safety Board issued a safety recommendation asking technology and delivery companies to add the exact locations of more than 200,000 grade crossings into digital maps and to provide alerts when drivers encounter them. […] The accuracy of mapping data is becoming more important as driverless cars start taking to the road. It will be up to navigation apps to guide cars onto the safest routes and to warn passengers — who may not be paying attention — about potential hazards.

Journalists should talk about decade-old solutions for a well-known and studied problem, such that Tesla is clearly failing at safety 101 and this incident didn’t need to happen. Without fraud there would be no Tesla.