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Jan 19, 2023 9 tweets 3 min read Read on X
Elon Musk oversaw the creation of a 2016 video that exaggerated the abilities of Tesla Inc.’s driver-assistance system Autopilot, even dictating the opening text that claimed the company’s car drove itself, according to internal emails viewed by Bloomberg. $TSLAQ
Musk wrote to Tesla’s Autopilot team after 2 a.m. California time in October 2016 to emphasize the importance of a demonstration drive to promote the system, which the chief executive officer made a splashy announcement about a week later. Image
The email sheds light on Musk’s mindset before he and Tesla then made claims about capabilities that have yet to materialize more than six years later. Image
In October, Bloomberg News reported that prosecutors in the US DOJ offices in WA/CA , along w/ the SEC, were were probing whether the company made misleading statements about its vehicles’ automated-driving capabilities. $TSLAQ Image
BIG POINT:

Nine days later, after Tesla staffers shared a fourth version of the video, Musk replied that there were still too many jump cuts, and that the demo footage “needs to feel like one continuous take.” $TSLAQ Image
While Musk had written in the earlier email that he would be clear Tesla was demonstrating what its cars would be able to do in the future, he then instructed staffers to open the video with a black screen and three sentences referring to the present.
The almost four-minute-long video that Musk shared in a tweet later that day opens with the text he asked for:

“The person in the driver’s seat is only there for legal reasons.
He is not doing anything.
The car is driving itself.”

$TSLAQ #fraud
Tesla and Musk didn’t disclose when releasing the video that engineers had created a three-dimensional digital map for the route the Model X took, Elluswamy said during his deposition. Musk said years after the demo that the company doesn’t rely on high-definition maps. $TSLAQ Image
NHTSA has two active investigations into whether Autopilot is defective. It upgraded the first — focused on how Tesla Autopilot handles crash scenes with first-responder vehicles — in June of last year. It initiated the other — pertaining to sudden braking — four months earlier.

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NEW: Lotta articles dropping today about Elon Musk & Twitter, and none of it is good.

A long-term fix doesn’t just involve getting Twitter’s costs under control. It has to involve making Twitter a better place for most people to spend time.
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Twitter’s expenses have definitely gone down. That happens when a company lays off half its workers, watches more resign, and then simply doesn’t pay severance to many of them.
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Yeah. Shane gave Ye her number. So Eliza Bleu is now texting buddies with antisemitic Hitler-admirer Kanye.
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nyti.ms/3l9hXPY
Staff on Twitter responsible for detection/removal of Child Sexual Abuse Material have quit or been fired.

AND ALSO Twitter STOP PAYING FOR DETECTION SOFTWARE that is KEY to its detection and elimination from the platform.
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Twitter: "It's a good choice for #CSAM" -abusers
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#TwitterFiles - EloncMusk's Top Engagements

💠 Omar Qazi @/WholeMarsBlog

Exhausting MegaThread
- Ban Evasion (3x+ banned accounts)
- Leads Harassment Campaigns that last Years Online/IRL
- Public $TSLA promoter, Elon Co-Defendant

Here's what's public: ImageImage
DISCLAIMER: This is aggregated from publicly-available sources. It is wholly observation of a behavioral pattern from public data. I do not condone harassment of anyone mentioned herein + will block trolls/ad hominem. Image
Also: I don't have stocks/positions on TSLA, nor have I been involved in any of Elon's ventures or know any persons mentioned herein personally. Again, this is what I have observed freely online. It boggles my mind to see this kind of activity, so I'm trying to make sense of it. Image
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From Article:

Elon Musk replied ““A bunch of sharks on Wall Street wanted Tesla to die very badly. I believe short-selling should be made illegal. It is a means for, in my opinion, bad people on Wall Street to steal money from investors. Not good.”
$TSLAQ #Tesla #lawsuit
“Just because I tweet something does not mean people believe it or will act accordingly,” he said from the witness stand. Regarding Twitter’s character limit, he said, “I think you can absolutely be truthful but can you be comprehensive? Of course not.” $TSLAQ

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🧵THREAD Points:
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Has Substack/YouTube w/ all the antivax hits.

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