The racism news just keeps getting worse at Tesla, like a repeat of the rapid fall of South African apartheid. It’s almost as if Elon Musk, whose family helped build and run South African apartheid until 1988 when they abruptly fled to Canada, has somehow escaped accountability for their and his horrible past. On Wednesday, … Continue reading Tesla’s Anti-Black Racism Headed to Court: 10s of Thousands of Workers Cited →

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 … Continue reading ME Tesla Kills One in “Veered” Crash Into Tree →

What a time to be alive, as Tesla lawyers failed to convince a judge that their phrase Full Self Driving means nothing yet everything at the same time: The name is a misnomer — FSD requires constant supervision and doesn’t render vehicles autonomous… Tesla’s lawyers contended that marketing its vehicles as having full self-driving “capabilities” … Continue reading Judge Says California DMV Can Sue Tesla for FSD Fraud →

For a decade now I have called out very vocally the catastrophically poor engineering culture of Tesla, which has predictably been leading to an explosion of defects and technical debt. In a 2016 security confernce keynote (after just the second Tesla “driverless” fatality) I called them out as a looming Titanic problem. Unfortunately my warnings … Continue reading Tesla is Being Sued Up to 13 Times EVERY Day →