A small government team at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, responsible for regulating autonomous cars—which Elon Musk claims are the future of Tesla—is being cut nearly in half by Musk. Conflict of interest?
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He is one big walking conflict of interest. Look at which agencies are holding him responsible for safety, etc and then look at what he is cutting. Follow his money.
Absolutely. I was riding in a tesla and it nearly ran over an electric bike and person in the crosswalks! If not for my yelling to stop, I think my friend would have a vehicular assault charge.
Don't worry: Musk is tasked with policing his own conflicts of interest, so if it is one, he'll no doubt identify it and step aside, just as Clarence Thomas does in his many recusals.
Let's get something straight, Trumpies. I am a tolerant, peaceful, caring human being. Standing opposed to you tormenting others isn't being hateful or intolerant. The things you right-wing radicals say and do disgust me. Don't ever question my morality when I point out your lack of it.
He could have focused on actually making ACs that don't kill pedestrians, bicyclists, and motorcyclists. But no. He goes full corruption and nazi instead. So I think we aren't getting cars from Demolition Man anytime soon.
Mr. Musk is not a member of the US government. He's just a private businessman doing what's best for his company and his own bank account and granted the ability to interfere with democratic government by corporate fascist / crony capitalist conservative, Republican king of the USA, Lord Dampnut.
Everyone's friendly reminder that, prior to all this, the NHTSA was investigating Tesla for alleged years worth of falsifying safety reports across all their models, but particularly in their self-driving systems.
all part of Prez Muck's plan to dominate the industry and crank out more shitty dangerous product
he cut gov funding to competitors as well
illegal and conflict of interest out the yinyang
As of Oct 2024, there have been hundreds of nonfatal incidents involving Autopilot and fifty-one reported fatalities, forty-four of which NHTSA investigations or expert testimony later verified and two that NHTSA's Office of Defect Investigations verified
All of this [gestures wildly] is a conflict of interest. How the hell is any of this in line with American principles? Everything happening lately just feels sus—like we're watching the system turn on itself. How are we still letting this slide?
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Remember when Trump said he was gonna bring us flying cars? Anyone else think Trump sabotaging the FAA and air travel, plus this move by Musk, might be them attempting to corner the market and have a monopoly on flying cars?
Anyone who is looking into fElon companies is being taken out. It’s the signal to the noise he is making as her gets rid of so many to cover up the real purpose. He doesn’t want oversight. He is not brilliant but rather evil, manipulative and maniacal.
If Tesla corruptly pushes full autonomy through before it's ready (and it's not nearly ready), it risks pretty massive reputational damage when someone inevitably gets killed.
Tesla's board *should* stop such a move, but they probably won't.
Of course it’s a conflict of interest, but that doesn’t seem to matter to anyone. As someone who worked for the public sector for 35 years, and had strong ethical boundaries, all of this is appalling and sad.
FYI Tesla plans to use Austin TX as a testing ground for the "robo taxi". These cars, along with Waymo, are a part of surveillance capitalism that will likely be used by the govt as surveillance tools. They also require massive data center structures and AI requires tons of electricity/water use.
Remember if anyone argues that these cars help the environment they do not and cannot touch the positive impacts of good public transportation does for the environment. They require massive exploitation of Congo (minerals) for the tech in addition to the electrical and water usage mentioned above.
Tony, a former VA employee and sole provider for his family, was suddenly fired. With two children who have disabilities, his livelihood is now at risk. Listen to his story and learn what happened.
There are no conflicts of interest in America anymore. All corruption is ok if you are a Republican.
Soon there will be "Corruption R Us" stores on the corners where the Taco Trucks should have been.
let's not even get into the fact that no one has perfected the autonomous car yet and for safety they need to be perfect. none on the road right now should be there.
It's truly astonishing how many conflicts of interest there are when you look at the federal bureaus Muskrat cuts and the federal bureaus responsible for federal investigations into Muskrat's shady business practices.
They do a ton on documenting crash data and even then there's a lot of needs to improve the data to help better safety for researchers. A lot of industries and crash data analytics research depends heavily on their data. I know. I used to use it for drunk driving simulations. This isn't good.
One of the issues that would bother me with their data is they heavily go into details about the car makes and models used in their data (and should), but not about the people that crashed or why. I suspect he isn't a fan of their inclusion of the car make data.
Don’t underestimate Vance—while he’s a smarmy PoS, he’s also being sponsored by Peter Thiel, fellow billionaire and ild school chum of Elon, and all of them are disciples of Curtis Yarvin and his anti-democratic, pro-dictator beliefs.
He’s like a used car salesmen and somebody trying to sell you vacation timeshare. You know he’s icky from the get-go. He’s a firm believer in suppressing women’s votes and regaining traction in segregation.
Of course it's a conflict. When the safety of the eaters becomes more important than the profit and aggrandizement of the oligarchy, then where the hell will this country be? Might as well go live in Canada.
No because he didn't file the contracts or paperwork ( him personally). That was his f&cking answer the other day. We have to put more pressure to get him the hell out of government. BOYCOTT TESLA
Eventually your country will find a politician with the integrity and back bone to scream from Capitol about the fact that DOGE is just one massive conflict of interest killing all sorts of investigations into Musk. And to keep screaming
But, but Elon said “Trust me.”And Joe Rogan said “He has $400 billion, he’s not going to steal your money. I’m telling you he’s not going to steal your money. I’m telling you, that’s not what he’s doing,”
The nazi billionaire also claims to have
Saved fifty five billion dollars
In his raids on our government
But the Washington Post says this today:
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I don't think Elon Musk is all that smart.
Reading his biography right now and, he was bullied in school and said his dad was evil.
I've also heard his interview Rogan's podcast and was completely underwhelmed.
It seems he takes a lot of credit for other people's ideas.
And he's an asshole!
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Just because one orange turd upends what you were taught doesn't make it all smoke. It just means the current administration sees no value in retaining a system based on checks and balances.
Part of having a democracy is believing in, abiding by, and participating in the democratic processes.
WWII Veterans fought and died to defend our democracy and now we just don’t care enough to save ourselves from the ignorant racist asshats who voted and elected ignorant and incompetent fascists.
Recognize Musk has stated that loss of human life is not only acceptable, but necessary to advance his vision for autonomous cars. He already quashed death reporting so hobbling NHTS tracks with his conflicted interests.
Next up, unregulated autonomous skies with expected much higher death rates.
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You don't have to scratch deep on the surface to uncover the conflicts of interest with this dogebag. Yet, the 'representatives that he paid for keep letting him fuck with America
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Yes. I don't need to hear the rest. It is, yes.
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he cut gov funding to competitors as well
illegal and conflict of interest out the yinyang
Absolutely recuse himself from
Any conflicts!
Tesla's board *should* stop such a move, but they probably won't.
He is not making cuts, he is unconstitutionally interfering with lawful appropriations.
https://youtu.be/MI3fevIi9oo?si=Gb5NSLHUPHwMv5Gk
Soon there will be "Corruption R Us" stores on the corners where the Taco Trucks should have been.
When will a fucking republican grow a pair of balls and stand up to his shameless acts.
https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa-requires-spacex-take-over-75-actions-mitigate-environmental-impact-planned
https://www.wired.com/story/faa-doge-elon-musk-space-x/
Last post I see is Jan 17.
Fiction becoming reality
Orange man gave him free reign.
Said the man who posed with thousands of empty manilla folders while claiming to have resolved his conflicts of interests.
https://markcmarino.medium.com/you-wont-believe-what-was-in-trump-s-fake-news-press-conference-folders-c334fcc6de0c
Serving their own interests is WHY Trump and Musk want to be in power.
Now is our time, it's up to us.
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No circumstance though
musk claims he needs MORE security
while eliminating everyone elses!
This TrumpMusk Regime must be stopped.
NOW!
Saved fifty five billion dollars
In his raids on our government
But the Washington Post says this today:
💙💙🇺🇲💙🇺🇲💙
Reading his biography right now and, he was bullied in school and said his dad was evil.
I've also heard his interview Rogan's podcast and was completely underwhelmed.
It seems he takes a lot of credit for other people's ideas.
And he's an asshole!
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Like, what is the actual legal ramifications other than saying "you can't do that" while they just do it?
Apparently that was all smoke up our collective asses
(And I'm not trying to argue or fight you, just venting general frustration)
WWII Veterans fought and died to defend our democracy and now we just don’t care enough to save ourselves from the ignorant racist asshats who voted and elected ignorant and incompetent fascists.
Next up, unregulated autonomous skies with expected much higher death rates.
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