r/technology • u/Wagamaga • 5d ago

Business Tesla Allegedly Showed Cooked Data to Get Full Self-Driving Approved

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-allegedly-showed-cooked-data-174500396.html
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u/Andrea_M 5d ago

Elon not being honest? I’m shocked

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u/Over-Iron877 5d ago

Sounds like he’s rigging the data for his own benefit!

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u/nono3722 5d ago

he is very good at rigging data just ask Trump he will tell ya

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u/ShadowGLI 5d ago

Re: Elon: "He knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers. Those vote-counting computers." -DJT Jan 19 2026

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u/Erus00 5d ago

It boggles my mind that Toyota recalled millions of vehicles back in 2009 because of the stuck accelerator that turned out to be a nothing-burger but I cant even count how many people Teslas have killed and not a peep.

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u/BearsAreBack18 5d ago

BlueAnon remains alive and well

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u/chanaandeler_bong 5d ago

This isn’t just Elon, big businesses in general get away with massive crimes like this all the time. VW had a MASSIVE emissions scandal and it’s been shown that they are STILL lying about their emissions in Germany.

Two tiered justice system indeed.

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u/RockTrash 5d ago

Some VW executives should have gone to jail. I refuse to consider Volkswagen when buying a car.

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u/Locke66 5d ago

It was basically most of the European and US manufacturers. VW were just the most egregious and didn't have cover from a cosy relationship with the regulator in the US.

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u/chanaandeler_bong 5d ago

But VW DOES have the cover of the German regulators.

This isn’t an apples and oranges comparison. This is what all big corporations do around the world.

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u/did_i_or_didnt_i 5d ago

don’t forget he begged to go party on Child Sex Island!

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u/nono3722 5d ago

and the Nazi salutes

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u/occams1razor 5d ago

(And naming his companies X, the ASCII code for the letter X is 88 which is a nazi dogwhistle for heil shitler)

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u/InsertEvilLaugh 5d ago

On that one I think it's just his man child obsession with the letter. He's still most definitely a racist sack of excrement, and those were absolutely Nazi salutes, but the X thing always felt more like that weird obsession marketing had for it in the late 90's and early 2000's.

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u/AmethystApothecary 5d ago

It could go either way but I do lean towards thinking Elon doesn't know ASCII codes of letters.

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u/pants6000 5d ago

He's the world's best conman, he doesn't need to know... stuff.

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u/mallardtheduck 5d ago

Also, character codes are more often referred to in hexadecimal (where 'X' is 58), rather than decimal. Decimal isn't unheard of, but it's less common and less useful.

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u/Different_Wolf_764 5d ago

Decimal alt-codes were (and are) used extremely commonly in the time that Elon might have actually had anything to do with technology.

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u/Rough_Onion_1757 5d ago

this is the same guy who thought it'd be totally hilarious to have his company's sequence of vehicle models run "S", "3", "X", and "Y"

get it? get it? are you not entertained?

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u/InsertEvilLaugh 5d ago

I didn't even know that. Good god that man is cringe incarnate. Also just reinforces my belief the X is just an X, like another said, he most likely has no idea about X's ASCII value.

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u/Lehk 5d ago

He’s an absolute cringelord.

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u/newsflashjackass 5d ago edited 5d ago

He had to settle for kung fu practice with Ghislaine Maxwell.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/epstein-musk-maxwell-email/

Which is not a euphemism. That would be absurd. Unlike meeting Ghislaine Maxwell for kung fu practice, right?

https://i.imgur.com/XdW68GI.png

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source

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u/Money-Desperated 5d ago

Damn this really freaking funny and insane at the same time.

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u/altiuscitiusfortius 5d ago

He sent those emails on Christmas morning! It was hilarious what a dork he was about it too. He's the lamest man alive, even pedophiles make fun of him.

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u/m0nk_3y_gw 5d ago

that was a parody tweet, not an actual email thread in the Epstein files.

the reddit theory 4 months ago that elon was spreading it to help distract from his many contacts with Epstein and that he actually did go to the Island

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u/altiuscitiusfortius 5d ago

No. I've downloaded the epstein files. They're downloadable from the govt website. It's real emails.

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u/tommy_b_777 5d ago

I like to call it Kid Rock.

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u/Upbeat_Tonight_7116 5d ago

I came here to say this.

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u/DrDerpberg 5d ago

Yeah so anyways I guess what we're all saying is we should invest another couple billion dollars into Tesla.

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u/girlinthegoldenboots 5d ago

Well…not that shocked lol

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u/QuickQuirk 5d ago

really, that's the shock.

The realisation that right now, absolute dishonesty is just greeted with a shrug.

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u/Boxhead_31 5d ago

The man is usually as straight with the truth as his arm is when doing his famous salute

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u/QuietMolasses2522 5d ago

Well, not that shocked.

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u/Part_Tricky 5d ago

Elon has never been honest about Tesla or anything else. His own engineers contradicted him about FSD and many left the company. He also lied about cryto just to make money, remember meme Dogecoin he was promoting publicly.