Many more Tesla head-on collisions are being found in news archives, than previously noticed by researchers looking at the huge increase in deaths.

According to Deputy D. Zane of the Hesperia Sheriff’s Station, the Tesla driver was traveling northbound on Mariposa Road and the pick-up truck was traveling southbound when the crash occurred. A witness told officials that the driver of Tesla crossed over into southbound lanes…

It’s crashes such as these that need to be carefully collected when looking at the latest evidence of driverless failure.

…collision was reported about 4:19am in the traffic backup from the first crash just after Joshua Street onramp. The vehicles involved in this crash was a black Tesla SUV with major front-end damage and a semi pulling a set of pneumatic dry bulk cement tankers. Speed was a factor in this crash.

Instead of saying just speed, perhaps reporters should say software was a factor.

In related news, the Tesla PR department has started watering down and rebranding “full self driving” as “your fault driving” for only very specific “fairly near future” conditions.

Skepticism? We actually wonder why Bernie Madoff lacked skepticism. A lack of skepticism can be a warning sign, a serious danger to society.

I suspect anyone in the future looking back on Elon Musk will see an even worse degree of false confidence than most scammers. At least Madoff wasn’t raised by pro-Apartheid fascists (self-described anti-Semitic technocrats) and didn’t grow up to be just the same thing.

Nothing says this aloof spoiled Branch Davidian-acting billionaire cares about poverty and hunger, let alone stopping wars, than spending all his time instead at festivals driving in circles and then lying about it to sound like he knows something about “future” thinking.

People who were unfortunately fooled into buying a Tesla only realize the lies too late: “what do you mean our new car doesn’t work anymore after being in the rain, and you expect us to pay $20K because it got wet?”

Tesla is trying to claim the company didn’t plan for rain.

The fools literally didn’t predict rain for a car supposedly able to predict everything.

Skepticism is more than justified, and the more the better. How is Elon Musk not just another David Koresh?

This man who forcibly took over Tesla from engineers with his ill-gotten lottery money, just to undermine engineering ethics, and who turned it into a giant fraud, is still empty boasting: “the future, the future, believe me, I am partying hard in Texas festivals and ignoring reality, so believe me”.

Workers at Tesla say it has used its dubious closed repair model to fraudulently reclassify the warranty work it does for design defects and engineering flaws. CNBC does a great job of explaining the whistleblower complaint.

“Were Tesla to accurately categorize its ‘goodwill’ repairs as warranty repairs, it would likely need to restate earnings for every quarter since at least 2017,” the tipsters wrote in their submission. “It should also be noted that nothing has ever stopped the company from appropriately sizing its warranty reserve even as its service employees handed out too much ‘goodwill’ repair coverage.”

This helps explain why Tesla has a bizarrely unsafe track record of dumping huge quantities of low quality intentional design defective cars onto public roads.

If the horrible Tesla customer experience has been fraudulently recorded as “goodwill” and therefore booked as earnings by ignoring warranty offsets, the company is even more dysfunctional/abusive than reported before.

To put it another way, such methods of “smoothing” or boosting financial performance reports has a very tawdry history including the 1980s Savings & Loan Scandal and the 2007 Great Recession. Warranty repair reserves are like loan loss reserves (estimates of future losses) and aren’t meant to be reclassified into short-term gains while diminishing important safety reserves (e.g. needed when growing warranty failures actually are addressed).

The article goes on to cite “goodwill” spend running ten times higher than normal, which presumably means warranty reserves were hugely diminished.

In just under two months in late 2021, Tesla was spending over $17 million on “goodwill” in the U.S. alone…

Perhaps most interesting is the detail about Tesla running internal software full of bugs and vulnerabilities, while failing to get even above 90% data accuracy.

Specifically it mentions that access controls are so lacking that data is getting modified easily by basically anyone with a keyboard. The database is open to tampering, yet it’s supposedly the basis of reporting financials to the market.

…screenshots showed Tesla employees had manually changed the status of “used” cars to “new” in a program that tracked vehicle deliveries data.

Easy way to report new car numbers above expectations? Just cook the books. No wonder an obvious fool, throwing all safety aside in a mad rush, could become so wealthy so fast. What if nobody ever verified the number of cars reported sold was anything even close to the number of cars sold?

“A million cars” could have been 900K, or even 600K.

After all, Tesla already had been caught fraudulently doubling their battery range estimates to misrepresent themselves as leaders. The whole industry was balking at Tesla lies before someone did the hard audit and found the truth was a Nissan LEAF had better range (and none of the Tesla death).

So it seems there are quite a few very serious allegations with extensive documentation, pointing to a culture of pervasive fraud coming right from the top of Tesla.

Enron executives went to jail for less.

All of it sounds to me like evidence of classic SOX violations.

Early in the morning, a Tesla “veered” off the road into trees, yet again.

2016 Tesla sedan was traveling east on Twelve Bridges Road at 6:35 a.m. Thurs. morning when the vehicle ran off the left side of the road, struck several trees, and overturned, which caused the driver to be ejected from the sedan. The Tesla then caught fire and the driver was pronounced dead at the scene said officials.

How fast does a car have to go to strike several trees before overturning? Usually it’s a late model Tesla killing people, so this goes to show even a 2016 version isn’t safe. (The video reporter calls it a 2017).

In somewhat related news, in California another Tesla just drove into a tree but it didn’t kill the owner. He walked away, only to be arrested by police and put in jail for being stupid enough to think that “Autopilot” and “Full Self Driving” mean what they say.