This doesn't acknowledge reality. Tesla has a position of power, but that doesn't mean Tesla is free from incompetence or can ever be free from it.
This doesn't acknowledge reality. Tesla has a position of power, but that doesn't mean Tesla is free from incompetence or can ever be free from it.
But Tesla has sufficient power that they do not have the luxury of pleading incompetence when things like this happen.
This is both because such incompetence costs people's lives, and because they have enough money that they could definitely hire more or better people to re-check and add redundant safety features into their products.
The problem is, they do not want any accountability for claiming that their cars are "self-driving", or for any of their other errors or willful endangerment of the public.
Trillion-dollar companies run by egomaniacal billionaires do not need you rushing to your keyboard to make excuses for them.
A corporation can hire people and put processes in place to arbitrarily minimize (or not) the chance of an mistake in areas that matter to them. In this case, they did just that; only the thing being optimized for was “not giving data to the authorities”.
The evidence of this trial does not support an “oopsie poopsie we messed up so sowwy” interpretation of events. Tesla’s paid representatives went out of their way—repeatedly—to lie, mislead, and withhold evidence in order to avoid scrutiny. Fuck them and everyone involved with that.
This comment says more about your relationship with the world than it does about the subject matter
My relationship with the world is one where I want billionaires and companies with unprecedented amounts of power to be held to account when they act maliciously, negligently, or irresponsibly, and not one where we try to find any reason to excuse their bad behavior.
The real question is why don’t you feel the same?
You are arguing with yourself. I said that Tesla isn't free from incompetence despite its power. You started ranting about billionaires.
We're having different conversations.
>I said that Tesla isn't free from incompetence despite its power.
Ok, and what is your point? Do you have a point or was that just a random observation related to nothing and implying nothing? Because it seems like your implication, given the comment you responded to, it's that Telsa's incompetence is not malicious in it's incompetence. That it is just one of those things that the powerful also have incompetence.
But Telsa decides where to put funding and resources, so if they put funding into covering up and hiding data, and they don't put funding into safety systems and testing that their "autopilot" engages and disengages properly, that is malice.
And again, if that is not the implication of your comment, please just let me know what your intent was, and I will correct myself.
Comments like yours are why we're on the slide into fascism with little fanfare. Oops! We accidentally committed treason. No reason to hold us responsible for our actions!
Incompetence can be malice if you are in a position where you are required to be competent - like being licensed to produce cars that share public roads with others.
And in both cases they should be held accountable.