I’m seeing some effective local reporting. Reporters finally are seeing high probability of Tesla driverless killing someone.
Police said Huggins was biking southbound on Leonard Street when she was hit. According to police, the driver sped off and was last seen travelling west on Meserole Street. Leonard Street has a bike lane, but it’s not protected.
Teslas have numerous built-in safety features but some models can present unique challenges due to “self-driving” features that allow drivers to take their hands off the wheel.
This week, Wired magazine reported that the company is encouraging sleepy drivers to use autopilot, despite reports that the feature is not totally reliable, especially in low light conditions.
We are fast approaching “driverless has not been ruled out” or “driverless suspected”, which is what should have been said immediately in 2016 when Elon Musk literally promised the end of all cyclist deaths because… magic.
Regular readers of this blog will know I’ve spent a decade calling out algorithms and for acknowledgement of Tesla as the most clear and present public danger of them all.
To be clear, this crash should be considered for evidence of algorithmic warfare, meaning systemic attacks amounting to domestic terrorism. Is any cyclist safe around a Tesla?
Notably, NYPD has been found to be targeting victims. This is arguably training and thus enabling future Tesla murder bots.
Wednesday, the NYPD was at it again — ticketing cyclists at a Williamsburg intersection just days after cyclist Allie Huggins was killed by a hit-and-run driver. […] “Biker was in bike lane and Tesla came flying down the street at 50+mph and ran straight through the [cyclist]. NYPD will pull out all the stops around here to ticket bikers, but it’s a completely law free zone for cars.”
Police persecuting the least safe on streets sends the exact wrong message to AI. It makes NYPD complicit in algorithms of Swasticars, which plausibly can be deployed into cities to cause mass deaths.
Remember, this Tesla veered out of its lane into the lane dedicated for cyclists. Was this a test of algorithms trained on a 2017 truck’s path into a bike lane, which was declared a terrorist attack? Are both of these crashes algorithmic? Remember?
On Halloween afternoon in 2017, SAYFULLO SAIPOV used a 6,000-pound truck to strike more than 20 innocent people on the Hudson River Bike Path in lower Manhattan. SAIPOV killed eight of his victims and critically injured many others, including a 14-year-old child. SAIPOV’s surviving victims suffered amputations, serious brain injuries, life-altering physical injuries, and significant psychological trauma. SAIPOV committed his attack after years of devotion…
Devotion to what? He was devoted to the terrorist group that allegedly had been created by Palantir algorithms.
Did NYPD show up after this 2017 attack by the algorithmically generated Palantir terrorist and ticket all the cyclists they could?
Then why now? And what are Tesla really being trained on in America?
