The driver of a Tesla was hospitalized with what authorities are calling significant injuries after crashing into a pole in The Woodlands Sunday night.
The Woodlands Fire Department said it happened at the intersection of Sawdust and Woodland Field Crossing. Firefighters were called to the scene at 9:48 p.m. Sunday night.
Officials say they received multiple 911 calls of the crash as well as a person trapped inside the vehicle. When they arrived, they found that bystanders had already pulled the driver from the vehicle, which had now caught fire.
It’s pretty clear why Tesla didn’t want an Autopilot case going to trial. Things like this are being laid bare by Electrek for all to see the fraud clearly.
…we now have access to the trial transcripts, which confirm that Tesla was extremely misleading in its attempt to place all the blame on the driver.
The company went as far as to actively withhold critical evidence that explained Autopilot’s performance around the crash.
Within about three minutes of the crash, the Model S uploaded a “collision snapshot”—video, CAN‑bus streams, EDR data, etc.—to Tesla’s servers, the “Mothership”, and received an acknowledgement. The vehicle then deleted its local copy, resulting in Tesla being the only entity having access.
What ensued were years of battle to get Tesla to acknowledge that this collision snapshot exists and is relevant to the case.
The police repeatedly attempted to obtain the data from the collision snapshot, but Tesla led the authorities and the plaintiffs on a lengthy journey of deception and misdirection that spanned years.
Deception and misdirection to hide the dangerous fraud of Autopilot. Who can forget what the CEO was saying at the same time:
Source: My 2021 Presentation
We’re talking about a 2019 crash here:
Tesla had the data on its servers within minutes of the crash
When the police sought the data, Tesla redirected them toward other data
When the police sought Tesla’s help in extracting it from the computer, Tesla falsely claimed it was “corrupted”
Tesla invented an “auto-delete” feature that didn’t exist to try explain why it couldn’t originally find the data in the computer
When the plaintiffs asked for the data, Tesla said that it didn’t exist
Tesla only admitted to the existence of the data once presented with forensic evidence that it was created and transfered to its servers.
The Pentagon has officially warned they view bipartisan security work as “evil globalism”.
The Pentagon on Monday pulled senior Defense Department officials from the annual event —only a day before the start of the four-day summit in Colorado — claiming the bipartisan gathering “promotes the evil of globalism, disdain for our great country, and hatred for the President of the United States.”
The strong wording has alarmed some experts and former government officials, who see a growing tendency for the administration to cut off anyone who criticizes or so much as offers an alternative view…
Some also explained what to watch for as the next escalation step.
If they stop being willing to engage in any kind of forum, unless you somehow prove that you’re a complete MAGA Republican, that would be much more concerning.
The Stasi at work in a mobile observation unit. Source: DW. “BArch, MfS, HA II, Nr. 40000, S. 20, Bild 2”
DW describes a new German history book that explores the life of the Stasi and their informants.
These unofficial informants would spy on their friends and family — either willingly, or because they themselves were put under pressure.
But what made them work for the authoritarian regime?
That depends, said historian Philipp Springer, whose book, “Die Hauptamtlichen” (“Staffing the Stasi”) was published in July in Germany.
“One reason was the feeling of having power over your fellow citizens,” Springer explained of motivations for joining the Stasi. “And then there were the promises made by the ministry, which would claim that the job was interesting and might even allow for deployments abroad. At the end of the day, it was a very secure job to have — especially for people struggling with their career prospects.”
That reads like the system was designed to fail. Intelligence was oriented around petty grudges and personal issues.
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