• protist@mander.xyz
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    6 months ago

    That last sentence stuck out to me too, a simple summary of all this mess. The other interesting part was at the end of the article, where they talk about the potential for the NHTSA requiring a recall fix for the “autopilot” feature that would be so expensive as to seriously damage the company:

    The scenario there is if the government is really serious about Autopilot, and frankly, I don’t remember the last time NHTSA investigated the efficacy of a recall remedy… he knows that NHTSA is insisting on a hardware fix for Autopilot and FSD," Niedermeyer said, referencing the auto safety regulator’s unusual decision to apply extra scrutiny to Tesla’s 2-million-car safety recall, announced last week.

    With 2 million affected cars on the road, any fix that requires hardware—adding back radar, perhaps, or infrared gaze-tracking driver monitoring, wouldn’t be cheap or quick to complete. “If NHTSA demands a level of remedy to problems that can’t simply be done affordably… then it’s a negative margin business with no way out. And that’s a problem you can’t just spend your way out of,” Niedermeyer said.

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      6 months ago

      Right! Like he knows the jig is up so he’s pulling out all his capital now to let the memestock fanbois take the fall. God forbid anyone rich ever suffer consequences.