Full disclosure: I own a Tesla Model 3. Musk may have sullied the brand’s image, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a great car. I ran Full Self-Driving (supervised) for a year — amazing, but not perfect. It watches you constantly, flashes warnings, and updates often. Someday it could be nearly flawless and save millions of lives. I dropped it a few months ago — not because it’s bad, just not that useful unless you’re doing long freeway trips
Tesla’s alleged crash-data suppression isn’t just bad optics — it’s a hole in the very feedback loop that makes dangerous systems safer. Aviation works because every mishap gets the black-box treatment, findings go public, fixes get made. If Tesla really hid or massaged Autopilot crash info, that’s like an airline losing the black box to protect the stock price. You can’t fix what you pretend never happened, and you can’t expect trust if you hide the data.
Now, a smaller but relatable case: a Substack “author” who delivers a polished, thousand-word political column before most people have coffee — same beats every day, perfect paragraphs, evenly spaced metaphors. Most couldn’t keep that up without a newsroom… or something else. And here’s where it rhymes with Tesla: it’s not the tool that’s the problem — it’s the non-disclosure. Tesla allegedly hid the data; the writer hides the method. Maybe the writer is just that good — or maybe there’s a robot ghostwriter in the back room with perfect pacing and paired with an equally active billing system.
Full disclosure: I own a Tesla Model 3. Musk may have sullied the brand’s image, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a great car. I ran Full Self-Driving (supervised) for a year — amazing, but not perfect. It watches you constantly, flashes warnings, and updates often. Someday it could be nearly flawless and save millions of lives. I dropped it a few months ago — not because it’s bad, just not that useful unless you’re doing long freeway trips
Tesla’s alleged crash-data suppression isn’t just bad optics — it’s a hole in the very feedback loop that makes dangerous systems safer. Aviation works because every mishap gets the black-box treatment, findings go public, fixes get made. If Tesla really hid or massaged Autopilot crash info, that’s like an airline losing the black box to protect the stock price. You can’t fix what you pretend never happened, and you can’t expect trust if you hide the data.
Now, a smaller but relatable case: a Substack “author” who delivers a polished, thousand-word political column before most people have coffee — same beats every day, perfect paragraphs, evenly spaced metaphors. Most couldn’t keep that up without a newsroom… or something else. And here’s where it rhymes with Tesla: it’s not the tool that’s the problem — it’s the non-disclosure. Tesla allegedly hid the data; the writer hides the method. Maybe the writer is just that good — or maybe there’s a robot ghostwriter in the back room with perfect pacing and paired with an equally active billing system.
Just my 2¢