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Tesla said it didn't have key data in a fatal crash, then a hacker found it

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650 points clcaev | 4 comments | 29 Aug 25 11:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.712s | source
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voidUpdate ◴[29 Aug 25 12:11 UTC] No.45063021[source]▶
I'm still convinced that it being called "full self driving" is misleading marketing and really needs to stop, since it isn't according to Tesla
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acdha ◴[29 Aug 25 12:17 UTC] No.45063088[source]▶
Why do you think Musk put so much money into helping Trump win? Tesla was under multiple investigations for safety and unkept promises, and he knew that he would not have leverage to halt those under a Harris administration.
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thowaway52729 ◴[29 Aug 25 12:34 UTC] No.45063255[source]▶
If that was his goal he would have minded his own business after the election, instead of spouting invective posts against Trump on X.
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Maken ◴[29 Aug 25 12:36 UTC] No.45063276[source]▶
That was after Musk realized he had alienated his entire consumer base.
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1. antonvs ◴[29 Aug 25 13:13 UTC] No.45063680[source]▶
That happened much earlier. The split with Trump happened after it finally sunk in that that Republicans weren't actually interested in smaller government or cost savings, that that was just a rhetorical weapon that they deploy selectively to get elected.
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2. FireBeyond ◴[29 Aug 25 15:58 UTC] No.45065766[source]▶
I thought Musk was an amazing, brilliantly intelligent man?

But it took him four months deeply embedded with the Republican party to come to this conclusion?

It's been blindingly obvious to anyone remotely paying attention to US politics for the last decade (or two, or more, but blindingly so, more recently).

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4. antonvs ◴[29 Aug 25 18:27 UTC] No.45067700[source]▶
If we accept his self-diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder, it could make a certain amount of sense. Coupled with the common propensity for motivated reasoning - someone initially told him what he wanted to hear, and he believed it.

It's always difficult to get a true read on what people believe, and that goes double for very powerful or wealthy people, who have professionals devoted to their image management.

Which, not coincidentally, is also where the idea of Musk as an "amazing, brilliantly intelligent man" comes from. After all, he doesn't have any sort of history of published work or intellectual breakthroughs to support that.

He seems to be good at investment, and at a certain kind of hype-based marketing, including of himself (up to a point.)