Aral Balkan
“‘Tesla years ago began exaggerating its vehicles' potential driving distance—by rigging their range-estimating software,’ the article published today said. ‘The company decided about a decade ago, for marketing purposes, to write algorithms for its range meter that would show drivers “rosy” projections for the distance it could travel on a full battery, according to a person familiar with an early design of the software for its in-dash readouts.’”
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Aral Balkan
“Once the battery fell below 50 percent, ‘the algorithm would show drivers more realistic projections for their remaining driving range.’ The order to exaggerate car range allegedly came from … Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk, this person said.
‘Elon wanted to show good range numbers when fully charged,’ the person said, adding: ‘When you buy a car off the lot seeing 350-mile, 400-mile range, it makes you feel good.’”
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Aral Balkan
“Tesla has consistently exaggerated the driving range of its electric vehicles, reportedly leading car owners to think something was broken when actual driving range was much lower than advertised. When these owners scheduled service appointments to fix the problem, Tesla canceled the appointments because there was no way to improve the actual distance Tesla cars could drive between charges, according to an investigation by Reuters.”
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Aral Balkan
So Tesla—at the behest of Elon Musk—made their cars lie about driving range then lied about that too.
Is anyone surprised?
This isn’t one bad apple. This is what passes for “clever” in Silicon Valley.
And we trust our lives to the algorithms written by these assholes?
These muppets aren’t geniuses. They’re sociopaths and con men. Any they’re destroying human rights, democracy, and even our whole damn habitat.
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#tesla #ElonMusk #SiliconValley #billionaires #oligarchs #VC #corporatocracy
Aral Balkan
#tesla #ElonMusk #SiliconValley #billionaires #oligarchs #VC #corporatocracy
Sibrosan
> So Tesla—at the behest of Elon Musk—made their cars lie about driving range then lied about that too. <
So they went along with the de facto standard practice in the car industry to specify unrealistic fuel consumption figures... Shocking
Aral Balkan
@sibrosan We’re sorry, Elon’s ass is not accepting any new submissions for kissers at this time. Would you like to join the waiting list?
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MarkusL
More than that, it's dangerous. You could get stuck in the middle of nowhere, late at night, with a flat battery.
taxet
@aral isn’t that something that would warrant a proper lawsuit or something? Lying to customers that their car can go further than it actually can sounds to me at least like a textbook case of false advertising.
jbz
@aral Responsibility shared by the developers, managers and execs that designed and implemented these changes.
They knew exactly what it was, and unless they became whistleblowers themselves, they're on the hook, just like the VW employees that blamed "company culture" on everything for their emission scandal.
Half the EU will line up to destroy Musk for this, not to mention lying to the PCC is gonna cost him more than just money.
Aral Balkan
@jbzfn 🤞
Brian Lewis
@aral @aijaz This is not Tesla, it’s the EPA process. Be mad at them.
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