22 March 2024

I Owe Elon an Apology

I did not comment about it here, but on some of the social media platforms and BBS's that I frequent, I had made the observation that Elon musk's counterintuitive and stupid user interface choices on Tesla cars was probably responsible for the freak accident that claimed the life of Angela Chao, Mitch McConnell's sister in law.

She mistook reverse and forward and backed up into a pond on her ranch and drowned.

I had assumed that this was, at least in part, a consequence of Tesla's egregiously bad touchscreen centric user interface.

It turns out that Angela Chao was drunk off her ass at three times the legal limit.

At that level of intoxication, it would be rather mendacious to suggest that the car maker's poorly thought out ergonomics was responsible.

On the other hand, the death of Tesla employee Hans von Ohain, who relied on Musk's lies about the self-driving capability of his car to get him home when he was drunk is a direct result of Musk's psychopathic marketing.

In case you are wondering, he was a direct descendant of That Hans von Ohain. (I am not going to make the obvious joke, "Hey look Ma, no Hans!")

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