Elon Musk has his hands full with a lot of projects at the moment.
Between his big money maker Tesla (TSLA) -), the success of SpaceX, the Boring Company, and now X (formerly Twitter), Musk is in charge of quite a few big name companies.
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So it must be nice when one of his companies is able to defend the public image of another on social media.
Twitter Blue verified user Greg Wester said that he has been getting messages from multiple people whose Tesla vehicle experienced "unintended sudden acceleration."
But Twitter's Community Notes was quick to "fact check" Wester's claim by referencing a 2021 Washington Post article saying that more than 200 cases of sudden Tesla acceleration have been proven to be the fault of the drivers themselves.
Been getting lots of DMs from anons who experience sudden unintended acceleration in their Teslas. This could be the scandal of the decade. The SUA phenomenon is real. Either Elon knows and the team can’t fix it, or he knows and won’t ask the team in email making a paper trail. pic.twitter.com/MEeuleqbiQ
— Greg Wester (@gwestr) July 25, 2023
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration conducted an investigation in 2020, acting on a petition by an independent investor.
The NHTSA "found no evidence of fault in the accelerator pedal assemblies, motor control systems, or brake systems that contributed to the cited incidents. NHTSA also found no evidence of a design factor contributing to increased likelihood of pedal misapplication.”
What the Community Note failed to acknowledge is that the NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation received a new petition last month requesting a reevaluation of its previous ruling on the issue.
The new petition claims that intermittent high electrical current demands may have caused some or all of the accidents that were examined by ODI in 2021.
Meanwhile Wester, who according to his LinkedIn is a driving coach with 13 years of experience in enterprise software and five years in software software engineering, says that the acceleration issue is the "biggest scandal" since the Boeing 737 MAX issue.
The Tesla cult is grappling with the idea that sudden unintended acceleration is the biggest scandal since the Boeing 737 MAX MCAS bug. Digital systems are hard. Drive by wire is hard. You have to work backwards from the catastrophic events to uncover the bug, and fix it!
— Greg Wester (@gwestr) July 25, 2023
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