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Tesla's "Predictive" Odometers Had 9+ Drivers Complaining of Inaccuracy Before Lawsuit. We Even Found Video! in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 4 points 11 hours ago

That's what fucks me up here! XD

Tesla is probably the most closely watched auto manufacturer on earth. And it's mostly fans! So like, friendly faces doing hypermileage content or commenting to other friendly fans about their fuel savings...

The video I linked is literally a Tesla fan being like "oh wait, it skipped a mile, what the fuck, did it always do that?"

Tesla's "Predictive" Odometers Had 9+ Drivers Complaining of Inaccuracy Before Lawsuit. We Even Found Video! in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 5 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Very accurate. Most anti-tamp protections watch for lowering. Because who in their right mind would increase the mileage, right? :)

No reasonable manufacturer would do that. A manufacturer would be caught if they did that and -- oh wait shit that's exactly what happened

Tesla's "Predictive" Odometers Had 9+ Drivers Complaining of Inaccuracy Before Lawsuit. We Even Found Video! in c/technology@lemmy.world
Tesla's "Predictive" Odometers Had 9+ Drivers Complaining of Inaccuracy Before Lawsuit. We Even Found Video! in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 17 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

It's trivially easy to discover odometer tampering in the USA, and the law is actually enforced.

Carfax, for instance, will automatically flag if any data point has the odometer lower its mileage. Each time a car is brought in for service or sold, the mileage is recorded. If any of the datapoints do not advance logically, the car is flagged and all sorts of liability questions arise.

If Carfax can purchase the data, I'm certain that insurers do, too. Insurance is legally mandatory, and the corporations don't want to cover the cost of insuring a car with a cooked odometer (and unknown true mileage).

Tesla's "Predictive" Odometers Had 9+ Drivers Complaining of Inaccuracy Before Lawsuit. We Even Found Video! in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 5 points 1 day ago

I mean this utterly unironically: I'm glad :)

Tesla's "Predictive" Odometers Had 9+ Drivers Complaining of Inaccuracy Before Lawsuit. We Even Found Video! in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 29 points 1 day ago

Can't argue with that XD

His main deal is that he does Tesla stuff. His website is "Tesla Pittsburgh," so yeah, he's a Tesla guy.

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Tesla's "Predictive" Odometers Had 9+ Drivers Complaining of Inaccuracy Before Lawsuit. We Even Found Video! (fuelarc.com)
 

A Tesla influencer randomly caught his odometer double-counting mileage on video. Wild.

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Car safety experts at NHTSA, which regulates Tesla, axed by DOGE (arstechnica.com)
 

The TL;DR in one quote:

Job cuts at the US traffic safety regulator instigated by Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency disproportionately hit staff assessing self-driving risks, hampering oversight of technology on which the world’s richest man has staked the future of Tesla.

An interesting quote from a Tesla manager:

“Letting Doge fire those in the autonomous division is sheer madness—we should be lobbying to add people to NHTSA,” said one manager at Tesla. They “need to be developing a national framework for AVs, otherwise Tesla doesn’t have a prayer for scale in FSD or robotaxis.”

Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Striking Motorcyclists More Than Any Other Brand: New Analysis in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 2 points 2 weeks ago

Disbanded!

... for effieciency!

As markets melt down, Trump touts $5m gold card for wealthy immigrants (featuring his face) in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

You're thinking the EB-5 visa program, I think. That was the fifth "employment based" visa.

You're sort of right, but your numbers are off. It's $1.8 million in cash, but the real kicker is that you need to sustain those 10+ permanent US employees through your investments. Been a popular program since 1990, about 12,000 folks use it a year lately. It's still a thing, you can apply for one today.

https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/permanent-workers/employment-based-immigration-fifth-preference-eb-5/about-the-eb-5-visa-classification

Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Striking Motorcyclists More Than Any Other Brand: New Analysis in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 1 points 2 weeks ago

No shit on that yikes. That blew my fucking mind.

Half the time when your AEB activates, you are unconscious or dazed and you're just flailing around your cabin like a rag doll, because you've crashed. If your foot happens to flail into the accelerator, get ready for a very exciting (if short-lived) application of that impressive 0 to 60 time.

Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Striking Motorcyclists More Than Any Other Brand: New Analysis in c/technology@lemmy.world
Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Striking Motorcyclists More Than Any Other Brand: New Analysis in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 1 points 3 weeks ago

They call it the Model 3 because the Tesla Organ-Harvester didn't translate well to Chinese

Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Striking Motorcyclists More Than Any Other Brand: New Analysis in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 3 points 3 weeks ago

The new "Start Seeing Motorcycles" merch just dropped!

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Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Striking Motorcyclists More Than Any Other Brand: New Analysis (fuelarc.com)
 

TL;DR: Self-Driving Teslas Rear-End Motorcyclists, Killing at Least 5

Brevity is the spirit of wit, and I am just not that witty. This is a long article, here is the gist of it:

  • The NHTSA’s self-driving crash data reveals that Tesla’s self-driving technology is, by far, the most dangerous for motorcyclists, with five fatal crashes that we know of.
  • This issue is unique to Tesla. Other self-driving manufacturers have logged zero motorcycle fatalities with the NHTSA in the same time frame.
  • The crashes are overwhelmingly Teslas rear-ending motorcyclists.

Read our full analysis as we go case-by-case and connect the heavily redacted government data to news reports and police documents.

Oh, and read our thoughts about what this means for the robotaxi launch that is slated for Austin in less than 60 days.

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Canada Freezes $43M in Suspicious Tesla Rebates. Tesla’s Claim of 1.5 Sales Per Minute Prompts Government to “Fully Examine Each Claim Individually.” (fuelarc.com)
 

Looks like Tesla’s reliance on government subsidies has finally hit a wall in Canada.

After Tesla requested reimbursement for an unprecedented 8,669 Canadian EV rebates in just three days, the Canadian government froze Tesla’s rebate payments and paused all future eligibility for federal rebates while tariffs are in place.

Read the full details and the fallout here.

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Canada Freezes $43M in Suspicious Tesla Rebates. Tesla’s Claim of 1.5 Sales Per Minute Prompts Government to “Fully Examine Each Claim Individually.” (fuelarc.com)
 

Looks like Tesla’s reliance on government subsidies has finally hit a wall in Canada.

After Tesla requested reimbursement for an unprecedented 8,669 Canadian EV rebates in just three days, the Canadian government froze Tesla’s rebate payments and paused all future eligibility for federal rebates while tariffs are in place.

Read the full details and the fallout here.

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Zeekr’s New G-Pilot Aims to Fix Their Old Self-Driving System's Mistakes... We Have Video that Shows the Difference (fuelarc.com)
 

Zeekr, the electric luxury brand of Geely, China’s third-largest auto manufacturer by 2024 volume, is making headlines with its new self-driving technology, G-Pilot. The system, which will be available for free, could make it an even tougher sell for Tesla to market Full-Self Driving (FSD) as a premium upgrade.

Will Zeekr’s new G-Pilot system be a genuine game-changer, or just a more polished version of its problematic predecessor, NZP (Navigation Zeekr Pilot)? We’ve done the legwork, watched the footage, and broken it all down for you.

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Self-Driving Tesla Crashes into Wall Painted to Look Like a Road… Just Months Before Planned Robotaxi Launch (fuelarc.com)
 

Mark Rober just set up one of the most interesting self-driving tests of 2025, and he did it by imitating Looney Tunes. The former NASA engineer and current YouTube mad scientist recreated the classic gag where Wile E. Coyote paints a tunnel onto a wall to fool the Road Runner.

Only this time, the test subject wasn’t a cartoon bird… it was a self-driving Tesla Model Y.

The result? A full-speed, 40 MPH impact straight into the wall. Watch the video and tell us what you think!

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Self-Driving Tesla Crashes into Wall Painted to Look Like a Road… Just Months Before Planned Robotaxi Launch (fuelarc.com)
 

Mark Rober just set up one of the most interesting self-driving tests of 2025, and he did it by imitating Looney Tunes. The former NASA engineer and current YouTube mad scientist recreated the classic gag where Wile E. Coyote paints a tunnel onto a wall to fool the Road Runner.

Only this time, the test subject wasn’t a cartoon bird… it was a self-driving Tesla Model Y.

The result? A full-speed, 40 MPH impact straight into the wall. Watch the video and tell us what you think!

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Dodge Chargers Now Have Pop-Up Ads at Every Stoplight (fuelarc.com)
 

Nothing quite says “high-performance muscle car” like a popup ad for a Mopar Extended Warranty covering your whole center console. That’s right, Dodge Charger owners are now experiencing an exciting new feature: pop-up ads that appear every time the vehicle stops at a light. This absolute garbage feature was spotted in the wild, take a look here.

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Dodge Chargers Now Have Pop-Up Ads at Every Stoplight... Just What Nobody Asked For (fuelarc.com)
 

Nothing quite says “high-performance muscle car” like a popup ad for a Mopar Extended Warranty covering your whole center console. That’s right, Dodge Charger owners are now experiencing an exciting new feature: pop-up ads that appear every time the vehicle stops at a light. This absolute garbage feature was spotted in the wild, take a look here.

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4 Cybertrucks on Fire in a Seattle Holding Lot… Investigators Uncertain if Fires Caused by Arson or Spontaneous Battery Fire (fuelarc.com)
 

Updated with video from reporters on-site at the bottom of the post! Late Sunday night, four Tesla Cybertrucks caught fire in a Seattle holding lot near 2nd Ave S & S Spokane St, just five minutes from the local Tesla dealership. Initially, reports indicated two burning Cybertrucks, but as the fire spread, the number grew to 4 Cybertrucks. Investigators have offered no details as to whether this was arson or another case of a Tesla Cybertruck bursting into flames spontaneously. See video from the scene in the full article.

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Tesla Claimed 8,669 Canadian EV Rebates as the Program Ran Out of Funds… That’s 1.5 Sales Per Minute (fuelarc.com)
 

Between January 10 and January 12, after being warned that an EV rebate program was running out of funds, Tesla dealerships in Canada managed to claim 8,669 individual iZEV EV rebates, or about $43 million CAD in incentives. That’s a staggering number of sales to log in a single weekend, about 1.5 sales per minute. Let's dig into the numbers.

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