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An investigation found that Tesla’s Fremont, California, plant had three times as many Occupational Safety and Health Administration safety violations as 10 other US car factories combined. Injuries were higher than the national average, and training was shorter. And Tesla was found to have repeatedly misclassified and underreported injuries at its facilities in California and Nevada.

This isn't "hardcore" or whatever Elon wanted to call it. This is just simply worker abuse and is dangerous. Literally built upon the blood and bones of your workers. We stopped doing this a century ago because no amount of money is worth the loss of limb. Safety standards are an important part of work/life balance.

Look at this .csv file from the NHTSA regarding safety incident reports given to the offical US Government.

There's... a lot more Tesla in here than you might expect. A whole lot more. I'm guessing "Autopilot" doesn't work quite as well as some expect.

Looks like the file came from here: https://www.nhtsa.gov/laws-regulations/standing-general-order-crash-reporting

Posters at Hacker News discovered this: Twitter is purposefully making some links slow. Anything going to New York Times (or other webpages that Elon Musk doesn't like) has a 5-second delay right now.

With the DDOS attack against Lemmy.world going on this past week, I think its important for me to talk with the community for "the plan".

Future DDOS attacks remain likely, albeit hampered for now with the upgrade to 0.18.4. But whoever Lemmy.world admins pissed off will remain pissed off, and they'll likely find a new DDOS attack shortly. For now, we can enjoy this period of stability as the old bugs in 0.18.3 have been fixed, so 0.18.4 will at least temporarily be immune to the old DDOS attacks.

I personally have created a https://lemmy.ca account as a backup, and I've promoted [email protected] as my backup account to moderator for !realtesla.

If Lemmy.world goes down in the future, know that I'll continue to moderate and post from https://lemmy.ca/c/[email protected]. Thanks to the magic of federation, we have the ability to use other instances as a backup, automatically. Whatever actions we take place on another server will eventually push and resync themselves with the main lemmy.world server.

Though I'm sure there are still Lemmy federation bugs, its better to officially call https://lemmy.ca/c/[email protected] as the "official second home" of realtesla. Whatever bugs occurs we will deal with, but at least we're all on the same page on what I plan to do in light of future DDOS attacks vs Lemmy.world.

If your account is elsewhere: say https://kbin.social or https://sh.itjust.works, you can use those servers as secondary realtesla backup sites as well. (https://kbin.social/m/[email protected] and https://sh.itjust.works/c/[email protected] respectively). We will desync as long as lemmy.world is shutdown due to DDOS events, but the resync will occur as Lemmy.world comes back up.

This is the Virginia crash talked about a few weeks ago. Now its officially an NHTSA investigation.

WSJ looks into this particular crash NHTSA is investigating. It shows how the Autopilot system was able to see some cars earlier in the drive, but then how it failed to notice the police car with flashing lights in its lane. Ultimately resulting in a 55mph collision.

The CFO is the chief financial officer, the lead accountant of a company. An unexpected departure like this can be a bad sign, depending on why Zach here decided to step down.

I don't think I've posted a Hydrogen topic around here yet.

Alternative-fuels are on-topic, if people aren't aware. Consider it like [Twitter] though, don't overwhelm the front page, we wanna keep a focus on Tesla. Hydrogen is certainly a competitor to EVs and is on topic, as long as we don't overwhelm the focus of this community.

Over on Reddit, ESGhound blogposts on SpaceX were a big hit.

This blogpost covers a number of permit-issues Elon has failed with regards to Twitter (the big flashing X sign) and SpaceX. Neither of these are surprising, but its always welcome for ESGhound to give a breakdown on just how much Elon messes these things up.

Saw this posted into !technology, but somehow the topic disappeared. We can have the discussion here instead.

@chakan2, is this how you ping people? Lol, I'm resurrecting your link in my /c/ommunity.

A lot of us from Reddit probably will appreciate the "https://old.lemmy.world/c/realtesla" interface, based on the old.reddit.com interface.

Try it out for a bit of a more nostalgic look.

Jalopnik / Go Media always is one for clickbait titles, but as per Rule#5, I'm not changing their clickbait title or adding my commentary to it.

The actual article is about how various EVs are down 30% in range due to this summer heatwave. Teslas included.

This product is... concerning.

N2itive’s Alignment Kit 1 was designed to address the common acceleration shudder and inner tire wear issues that plague the Tesla Model S and X. An online poll suggests that approximately 70% of Model X’s have suffered from the acceleration shudder issue alone. There is currently no permanent fix from Tesla. N2itive’s Alignment Kit 1 will reduce the premature wear on your half-shafts (drive axles) to help prevent the onset of this problem. This kit allows your half-shafts to be more on-axis with your wheels to reduce binding that causes damage.

70% of Model S and X vehicles suffer from some kind of alignment issue that needs a $2000 aftermarket fix? What the heck?

This is currently not possible with the factory supplied non-adjustable control arms and suspension parts.

And... this is some kind of fundamental design to the S and X cars?

There's a lot of discussion going around the internet with regards to new Tesla numbers. Looking into the details, it seems like Tesla's new earning call came out last night.

The 10Q for Tesla Q2 2023 isn't available yet, but should be available soon. Apparently the market didn't like whatever was in this earning call, as the stock is down ~7% today while the rest of the market is up. I don't know the details though, but we can have a topic on this subject for sure.

Gonna watch this later... but I like LeagleEagle a lot! I'm very curious what his take will be on this subject.

Hmm, I'm not necessarily against EVs though I do think that Hybrids make more sense and I'm also a fan of H2. So seeing EVs do poorly is still a bitter pill for me.

Looks like ICE cars are selling much much faster in general.

Crossposting from Lemmy (!!!). Showing that Lemmy itself is now a good source of information to browse.

That being said, its from September 2022. Still though, this is the first time I'm crossposting from lemmy to lemmy, so its a milestone for me (and the realtesla-lemmy community)

EDIT: This PDF contains very detailed electrical information for the EEs who wanna go through the complaint: https://www.autoevolution.com/pdf/news_attachements/breaking-nhtsa-petition-shows-tesla-s-sudden-unintended-acceleration-is-real-and-curable-217525.pdf

Last year at /r/RealTesla, a Chinese video of a car rocketing at full speed for 1+ minutes before crashing / killing a pedestrian made the rounds. We all recognized it as one of the weirder cases of "Sudden Unintended Acceleration", and I think that particular video really changed some minds.

https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/china/tesla-to-assist-police-probe-fatal-model-y-acceleration-incident-in-china-articleshow.html

While a lot of SUA events are from driver-error, it began a search into why Teslas seemed to be getting more SUA above-and-beyond the industry normal. This investigation (now filed under NHTSA) suggests that the ADC could be miscalibrated during a load-dump (or other electrical surge-like) scenario.

If the ADC associated with the accelerator pedal is off, then the Tesla will have the pedal at the wrong level of acceleration until the next calibration event, which is not going to happen until over a minute later.

This is extremely similar to that Chinese runaway Tesla, and perfectly seems to explain it. I'm glad that someone seems to have gotten to the bottom of this.