17 fatalities, 736 crashes: The shocking toll of Tesla’s Autopilot, the Washington Post announces, in a long piece by reporters Faiz Siddiqui and Jeremy B. Merrill. What does Tesla dude Elon Musk have to say? Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said that cars operating in Tesla’s Autopilot mode are safer than those piloted solely by…
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Tesla Good, Tesla Bad, or Tesla Trivial?
Slate magazine offers dueling Tesla takes, with Scott Woolley claiming that the federal government should have hit the electric company up for some stock options back in 2009 when the U.S. Energy Department gifted Tesla with a $465 million low-cost loan. According to Woolley, Uncle Sam is acting Uncle Sucker. If we’re going to handing cash for high-risk…