Tesla CEO Elon Musk all the time appears to be on the forefront of the cultural zeitgeist. He and his electrical automotive firm have made dozens of headlines in 2023, most of them overwhelmingly unfavourable. Sit again and let John Oliver from HBO’s Last Week Tonight take you on a rollercoaster of Musk information from the previous yr and remind your self why you need to by no means purchase a Tesla or consider something this man says. 

In January an engineer from Tesla testified saying the 2016 video the corporate claimed to indicate a “full self-driving” automotive was really staged. The system is at the moment in its beta kind and accessible to over 50,000 Tesla house owners, regardless of the entire apparent security the reason why it should not be. As Oliver exhibits utilizing video from CNBC, the complete self-driving system is way from excellent, making harmful and oftentimes incorrect maneuvers whereas surrounded by visitors and pedestrians. Just final week Tesla was forced to recall over 2 million cars to stop drivers from abusing their car’s “autosteer” operate. 

There have been about 40 deadly or critical crashes involving Tesla’s driver help software program since 2016, based on The Washington Post. One assumes that’d be sufficient to persuade Musk to take the programs off the market and proceed testing internally to keep away from extra hurt. Yet, as Oliver factors out, Tesla says it’s “morally indefensible” to not make its programs extensively accessible to the general public, citing “incontrovertible data” that it saves lives and prevents harm… with out producing that information for the general public to see. 

Oliver talks about extra than simply Tesla, after all. He additionally covers Musk’s disastrous Twitter acquisition, his SpaceX stumbles, and far, rather more. It’s value a watch, particularly when you’re on the fence about that Cybertruck you’ve got been ready three years for.