only in Tesla PR reports(super easy to lie with statistics). Tesla is an expensive and safe car, people are having issue with the "autopilot" that is beta tested by unpaid volunteers on streets without the public pedestrians having to opt-in the beta.
What?
Pretty sure the ratings were from the NHTSA
Are you saying Elon controls the NHTSA?
The stats most fanboys and Tesla tweet about though are not about the ratings and about the incidents per mile and those are compared with everything including teens driving old cars (where few teens drive a Tesla).
Tell Elon Musk to publish all the incidents data and we can then trust his tweets.
But my main point, if you wish to also give your opinion in, is should pedestrians say maybe vote if random people can beta test Tesla's audopilot (including the beta updates) on the roads where they and their children walk?
I think most people would consider that a paid test driver with some extra setup like attention control and camera surveillance should be allowed to run beta tests but not any random dude(especially some idiot fan that is also streaming at the same time while stress tests the newest update)
You can give so many warning to people to not rely on Autopilot and keep their hands on wheel. Well, people will be people.. You cannot hide your responsibility behind user instructions and warning messages IMHO.
That's a logical fallacy. In fact, the two are positively correlated (and there is a long list of entrepreneurs who are both charismatic geniuses and psychopaths).
So you need to differentiate what Elon says, and what is can be verified. In some cases the delta can be huge (and quite shocking). E.g.
> factory safety levels 2x+ those of the competition
Tesla is the single biggest OSHA violator in California.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/26727/tesla-had-3-times-as-man...
Feel free to link some of the ones operational within… a few decades I guess.
It has ~300 employees compared to Tesla's Fremont factory with ~10000 employees.
Tesla leads the nation in OSHA violations. From the linked article: "data collected by Forbes shows that Tesla has accumulated more than three times the number of Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) violations that its top 10 competitors amassed from 2014-2018."
And indeed, the data shows that with 75% of reported safety violations, Tesla not just leads the nation in violations, it has more than 3x the safety violations of every other US auto maker combined.
This is objectively not true. Tesla's Fremont factory leads the nation in terms of safety complaints and safety violations.
highest safety ratings, ever, across multiple models of cars
This is not true. NHTSA has awarded many cars 5 star ratings (i.e., their highest rating). Multiple car makers have multiple lines of 5-star rated vehicles.
And in fact...Tesla lost those 5-star ratings this year. https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-agency-briefed-tesla-r...
as well as another company that’s safely sent multiple sets of astronauts to & from space @ something like 1/10th the old cost & in a much more comfortable setting
Dragon costs $55 million/seat, for 3 seats vs $64m/seat for 7 seats for the Space Shuttle. Given inflation, Dragon is actually more expensive than the Space Shuttle, for less capacity. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/10/spacex-crew-3-astronaut-laun..., https://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/about/information/shutt...
And Dragon is so comfortable that the toilet didn't work and they had to break out the diapers for the first time in decades.
According to Pielke and Byerly [2]:
The US Congress and NASA spent more than US$192 billion (in 2010 dollars) on the shuttle from 1971 to 2010 (see 'A costly enterprise'). The agency launched 131 flights; two ended in tragedy with the loss of Challenger in 1986 and Columbia in 2003. During the operational years from 1982 to 2010, the average cost per launch was about $1.2 billion. Over the life of the programme, this increases to about $1.5 billion per launch (R. A. Pielke Space Policy 10, 78–80; 1994).
This is in 2010 dollars, but it doesn't even require adjusting for inflation to see the cost is far higher than your reporting. Each seat cost over $214M in 2010 dollars. Just for giggles, inflation since 2010 would bump that cost up to 272M per seat.
It's fair to criticize Musk for toxic work environments at Tesla, and for generally being a Twitter douche. But SpaceX has been an extraordinary success.
1. https://www.planetary.org/space-policy/sts-program-developme... 2. https://www.nature.com/articles/472038d