China is to ban hidden door handles on cars. Instead, vehicle doors must have a mechanical release function, inside and outside. The purpose is to make cars safer after electric vehicle accidents where electronic doors reportedly failed to operate and trapped passengers inside. Here's more from @AssociatedPress.
China is to ban hidden door handles on cars. Instead, vehicle doors must have a mechanical release function, inside and outside. The purpose is to make cars safer after electric vehicle accidents where electronic doors reportedly failed to operate and trapped passengers inside. Here's more from @AssociatedPress.
The (Overdue) Collapse of The Most Overhyped Company - YouTube
It is really telling, that Tesla’s electric door handles have been trapping people inside burning cars for years, and it takes a ban from the Chinese market to get rid of them.
Fortunately, from 2027 Elon Musk will be forced by the Chinese government to change his lethal design.
Why on earth has the US and the EU not already banned these handles years ago?
@randahl #Tesla is #shit #boycott #swasticar #ElonMusk is a #pedophile.
The (Overdue) Collapse of The Most Overhyped Company - YouTube
Will Locket has written an excellent piece on how Musk destroyed Tesla. It is long, but it is really, really good:
https://www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/the-walls-are-closing-in-on-tesla
Thank you to @samueljohnson for this interesting find.
@randahl @samueljohnson While much of this has been clear to people who follow #ElonMusk's misadventures, the detail here is impressive. I remain amazed at how deluded buyers of #Tesla stock continue to be.
Let me get this straight…
Within one week, Elon Musk does not want to admit he destroyed Tesla, so he announces that he is closing down factory lines — not because no one wants to buy Teslas anymore, but because he needs the lines for building AI robots.
Meanwhile Trump does not want to admit he has destroyed The Kennedy Center, so he announces he is closing it for two years — not because no one wants to go there anymore, but because he needs more time to pick out marble armrests.
Got it.
The #waiver, which 2 former employees confirmed receiving & a copy of which was obtained by WaPo—was alarming to some members on the team, who had been hired to help shape how #xAI’s #chatbot #Grok responds to users. To some employees, it signaled a troubling new direction for a company launched “to accelerate human scientific discovery,” acc/to its website. Maybe now, they said they thought, it was willing to produce whatever #content might attract & keep users.
#law #regulation #Musk #tech #AI
Their concerns proved prescient, the employees said. In the next few months, team members were suddenly exposed to a stream of sexually charged audio, including lewd conversations that #Tesla occupants had with the car’s #chatbot & other users’ sexual interactions with #Grok #chatbots, said one of the people, a manager. The material surfaced as the team worked to train Grok to engage in such interactions.
#law #regulation #Musk #xAI #tech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #content #moderation #abuse
Elon Musk reaches the find out phase:
Tesla profits drop 61 percent after Elon's year of full blown fascism.
“The…Cybertruck can now be concluded to be a total flop—one of the worst in the history of American automaking. While Musk boasted of a supposed two million preorders, Tesla sold just 39,000…in 2024, and…20,000 in 2025.”
—Ryan Cooper
#cybertruck #tesla #musk
Electrek: Tesla’s own Robotaxi data confirms crash rate 3x worse than humans even with monitor
“The…Cybertruck can now be concluded to be a total flop—one of the worst in the history of American automaking. While Musk boasted of a supposed two million preorders, Tesla sold just 39,000…in 2024, and…20,000 in 2025.”
—Ryan Cooper
#cybertruck #tesla #musk
“Sales are down, yearly revenue is down for the first time ever, and quarterly profits fell by a whopping 61 percent… That gives it a price-to-earnings ratio of 297—a ludicrous figure… The most immediate cause of Tesla’s sales problems is Musk’s political activities. …Musk’s unmasking as a Nazi salute–throwing fascist has obliterated Tesla’s futuristic green-friendly brand. … But Tesla’s problems run much deeper than that.”
—Ryan Cooper
https://prospect.org/2026/01/30/teslas-wile-e-coyote-moment-is-here/
#tesla #musk #elonmusk
“Sales are down, yearly revenue is down for the first time ever, and quarterly profits fell by a whopping 61 percent… That gives it a price-to-earnings ratio of 297—a ludicrous figure… The most immediate cause of Tesla’s sales problems is Musk’s political activities. …Musk’s unmasking as a Nazi salute–throwing fascist has obliterated Tesla’s futuristic green-friendly brand. … But Tesla’s problems run much deeper than that.”
—Ryan Cooper
https://prospect.org/2026/01/30/teslas-wile-e-coyote-moment-is-here/
#tesla #musk #elonmusk
"...According to a chart in Tesla’s Q4 2025 earnings report showing cumulative robotaxi miles, the fleet has traveled approximately 500,000 miles as of November 2025. That works out to roughly one crash every 55,000 miles.
For comparison, human drivers in the United States average approximately one police-reported crash every 500,000 miles, according to NHTSA data.
That means Tesla’s robotaxis are crashing at a rate 9 times higher than the average human driver..."
As Tesla fundamentally pivots away from selling electric cars in favor of robots, I’m thinking of the conversation I had with @niedermeyer back in September titled “Is Tesla Still a Car Company?”
https://techwontsave.us/episode/295_is_tesla_still_a_car_company_w_ed_niedermeyer
As Tesla fundamentally pivots away from selling electric cars in favor of robots, I’m thinking of the conversation I had with @niedermeyer back in September titled “Is Tesla Still a Car Company?”
https://techwontsave.us/episode/295_is_tesla_still_a_car_company_w_ed_niedermeyer
Electrek: Tesla’s own Robotaxi data confirms crash rate 3x worse than humans even with monitor
"...According to a chart in Tesla’s Q4 2025 earnings report showing cumulative robotaxi miles, the fleet has traveled approximately 500,000 miles as of November 2025. That works out to roughly one crash every 55,000 miles.
For comparison, human drivers in the United States average approximately one police-reported crash every 500,000 miles, according to NHTSA data.
That means Tesla’s robotaxis are crashing at a rate 9 times higher than the average human driver..."
Electrek: Tesla’s own Robotaxi data confirms crash rate 3x worse than humans even with monitor
