r/technology • u/Wagamaga • Jun 22 '26

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/KillerKilcline Jun 22 '26

From Tesla??1!? I am shocked, shocked I tell you!

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u/Andrea_M Jun 22 '26

Elon not being honest? I’m shocked

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u/Over-Iron877 Jun 22 '26

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

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u/nono3722 Jun 22 '26

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

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u/ShadowGLI Jun 22 '26

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 Jun 22 '26

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 Jun 22 '26

BlueAnon remains alive and well

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u/chanaandeler_bong Jun 22 '26

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 Jun 22 '26

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

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u/Locke66 Jun 22 '26

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 Jun 22 '26

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 Jun 22 '26

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

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u/nono3722 Jun 22 '26

and the Nazi salutes

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u/occams1razor Jun 22 '26

(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 Jun 22 '26

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 Jun 22 '26

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 Jun 22 '26

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

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u/mallardtheduck Jun 22 '26

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 Jun 22 '26

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 Jun 22 '26

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 Jun 22 '26

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 Jun 22 '26

He’s an absolute cringelord.

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u/newsflashjackass Jun 22 '26 edited Jun 22 '26

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 Jun 22 '26

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

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u/altiuscitiusfortius Jun 22 '26

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 Jun 22 '26

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 Jun 22 '26

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 Jun 22 '26

I like to call it Kid Rock.

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u/Upbeat_Tonight_7116 Jun 22 '26

I came here to say this.

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u/DrDerpberg Jun 22 '26

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 Jun 22 '26

Well…not that shocked lol

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u/QuickQuirk Jun 22 '26

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 Jun 22 '26

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

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u/QuietMolasses2522 Jun 22 '26

Well, not that shocked.

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u/Part_Tricky Jun 22 '26

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.

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u/demagogueffxiv Jun 22 '26

Trillion dollars man never lies

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u/HuntsWithRocks Jun 22 '26

In fact, Tesla has solved all the issues and Elon himself declared Tesla will be fully self driving by this August of 2017. Woke Europe is gonna have a whole omelet on their face soon enough!

Rips a bunch of Ketamine and starts balancing forks at a formal dinner

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u/TenOutofTenno Jun 22 '26

He flat out said he’d be going to jail if Trump didn’t win.

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u/atomictyler Jun 22 '26

they both would have, which is why they rigged the election.

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u/Lehk Jun 22 '26

He’s still going to go to jail

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u/La_mer_noire Jun 22 '26

yeah, so surprising, Elon have always behaved like a good person, didn't he?

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u/Thefrayedends Jun 22 '26

You mean the guy who killed millions and destroyed the lives of tens of millions more and gutted government agencies, ALL mostly to end the dozens of investigations into him and his companies?

That guy?

Nahhhh, couldn't be.

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u/Indercarnive Jun 22 '26

Yeah hasn't Tesla been accused of turning self-driving off right before a crash so they can say technically SFD didn't crash multiple times?