May 24, 2018 · 1 min read

Presented without comment: Musk’s list of people to blame

Tom KirkmanIndependent Project Manager

Presented without comment (I’m laughing like a hyena, but that’s not really a comment).
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“Elon Musk’s list of people responsible for Tesla’s shortcomings – now inclusive of the NTSB, internet trolls and the financial media – and notably not inclusive of Elon Musk, continues to grow. Today’s addition? The conspirators running the big oil companies.

It appears that billionaire CEO Elon Musk is convinced that big oil executives have taken time out of their perversely cash generative work days to pin the financial media against him and his cash incinerating company.

The latest surprising, yet oddly not surprising, news from the world of the Tesla media relations dumpster fire comes courtesy of Elon Musk once again taking to Twitter and raging about the powers that be who are holding Tesla back from its inevitable glorious zenith as the green energy company that will save the world. …”

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Tom KirkmanMay 24, 2018
Where can I buy an overpriced EV that semi-autonomously drives into objects, and also has exploding batteries? Asking for a friend.
Tom KirkmanMay 24, 2018
No worries, Ian. I enjoy your PSAs.

Elon Musk has previously said that he is bipolar.
So I generally expect him to have, um, .... interesting mood swings.
Tom KirkmanMay 24, 2018
Please don't give him ideas, Robert. He might actually win if he runs for political office.
Tom KirkmanMay 24, 2018
" When another questioner asked Musk via Twitter if he was bipolar, he responded “yeah.”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2017/07/31/amid-his-most-important-tesla-milestone-elon-musk-says-he-may-be-bipolar/
Tom KirkmanMay 24, 2018
Stop making sense, you'll drive Elon crazy.
Erm, crazier.
Tom KirkmanMay 24, 2018
"Big Oil" is always painted as the Bad Guy.

Take petrol, diesel, jet fuel and natural gas away from the world for a month and see what happens.
Tom KirkmanMay 25, 2018
Update, this just in:
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A Tesla Model S that crashed into a parked firetruck on a Utah highway this month while in its Autopilot mode sped up prior to the accident, a police report says.

Data retrieved from the sedan shows that it picked up speed for 3.5 seconds shortly before the collision in South Jordan, according to the Associated Press. The acceleration from 55 mph to 60 mph suggests that the Tesla had been following a slower car that then moved out of the way, allowing the Tesla to resume the higher speed that the Autopilot system had been set at.

Furthermore, the car did not warn the driver ahead of the collision, even as the driver may have been taking a cue from Elon's Model 3 reveal, where he told people they could "sleep" in their car: to wit, the driver had her hands off the wheel for 80 seconds and was admittedly looking at her cell phone at the moment of the crash.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-05-25/tesla-autopilot-accelerated-slamming-parked-firetruck

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