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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 | 1 comments | 29 Aug 25 11:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.218s | 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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myrmidon ◴[29 Aug 25 12:41 UTC] No.45063332[source]▶
I'm absolutely not a fan of Trump, but this is a highly questionable assumption.

The much more likely hypothesis in my view is that he was helping Trump because of personal conviction (only in small parts motivated by naked self-interest).

You should expect rational billionaires to tend politically right out of pure self-interest and distorted perspective alone; because the universal thing that such parties reliably do when in power is cutting tax burden on the top end.

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antonvs ◴[29 Aug 25 12:50 UTC] No.45063429[source]▶
Musk is on record saying to Tucker Carlson that “If [Trump] loses, I’m fucked.”

So this isn't so much of an assumption, as taking him at his word.

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unnamed76ri ◴[29 Aug 25 12:58 UTC] No.45063530[source]▶
The Left was coming after Musk pretty hard before the election. I don’t know the context of the quote you pulled but it’s not hard to see how if Trump lost, there was going to be consequences for Musk.
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Swenrekcah ◴[29 Aug 25 13:07 UTC] No.45063613[source]▶
He has committed a lot of fraud and was facing consequences for that. That has nothing to do with left or right.
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walls ◴[29 Aug 25 13:13 UTC] No.45063681[source]▶
It does actually, because only one side is interested in finding or fighting fraud.
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1. Swenrekcah ◴[29 Aug 25 13:24 UTC] No.45063801[source]▶
Currently yes, but it is not inherently so. The problem with the US regime is that it is compromised, corrupt and heading towards fascism.

The problem is not that the republican party used to be a conservative right party.

What I’m saying is this is not a sports competition where Musk is automatically an opponent of the Democratic party because he supported Trump. He supported Trump in order to improve his chances with the legal system because he knew Trump would be willing to be so corrupt.

Another world might be imagined in which the Democratic party was taken over in 2016 but that is not the world we live in.