Elon Musk’s EV company is running a social-media campaign blaming European traffic deaths on red tape. Its safety claims don’t hold up, experts say, but regulators are starting to buckle.

  • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    it’s the best car I’ve ever owned

    you own nothing. you drive a remote controllable car with a helpful built-in surveillance system affecting people not only in it, but outside everywhere you drive.

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      1 day ago

      Do you read the news?

      Of the various privacy invading shit that goes into cars, Tesla is probably the least bad.

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        Like Tesla personnel sharing video from their customers from inside?

        Sharing video with law enforcement as well? Without a judge having to sign off on it?

        That Tesla?

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        TBH as a non-Tesla owner, Teslas are the only brand of cars that I’ve encountered that light up and verbally threaten me that they’re recording me when I walk by.