Tesla has the highest fatal accident rate of all auto brands, study finds

Not even remotely farce. I hope the rest of the world is taking notes...

Doesn't each major government do independent safety testing/has independent safety requirements, anyway?

um, that can be read both ways. they very well could be taking notes on how to move in the same direction, not the opposite

VW diesel-gate

How many of the independents caught that?

This is why we need the Department of Department of Government Efficiency Efficiency so we can ensure the governmental efficiency of the Department of Government Efficiency.

Nobody needs to take notes, we’ve known what this is for a hundred years. We spent most of the last century trying to get rid of autocracy in various places, there’s entire libraries worth of books detailing this playbook at this point.

Interestingly, it was a study commissioned by a non-profit, and performed by a university: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal

oh, great, so none.

Diesel gate involved also many others manufacturers

> Opel (General Motors) publicly demonstrated (while representatives from the TÜV Hessen were present) a Zafira that met the NOx emission limits. At the same time, Opel started clandestinely pushing an engine software update that limited NOx emissions in Zafiras that were already on the road.

> German newspaper Bild am Sonntag reported that US authorities investigating Mercedes have discovered that its vehicles are equipped with illegal software to help them pass United States' stringent emission tests. The claimed defeat devices include a Bit 15 mode to switch off emissions control after 16 miles of driving (the length of an official U.S. emissions test), and Slipguard which tries to directly determine if the car is being tested based on speed and acceleration profiles

> Dodge Ram 1500 and Jeep Grand Cherokee trucks, had software that allowed them to exceed NOx pollution limits, undetected by the usual testing methods.

> BMW was sued in 2018 when certain models were named as producing several times more nitrogen oxide emissions than laboratory tests indicated

Unfortunately, they are. They have discovered that this kind of behavior gets people into office.

Expect to see more of it.

UK, French and German government agencies lobbied for weaker testing. Probably because of car industry lobbyists, and all the blah blah about "we sell cars, people stay employed, economy keeps going, you get reelected.". Ah, isn't democracy beautiful... https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/24/uk-franc...

The good old autocracy that tries to get rid of autocratic policies and institutions. You can’t make this up.

> Ah, isn't democracy beautiful...

With a dictator they'd just bribe him. Not like that's a solution, either.

autocracy is about concentration of power, correct. bureaucratic is not autocratic. it‘s the opposite. Removing checks and balances is a bad thing, yes.