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It should be noted that that site is run by a group of pseudonymous people who do not hide the fact that they have been shorting Tesla for years. They count every death involving a Tesla. If someone jumps in front of a manually piloted Tesla and is run over before the driver can react, it is added to the spreadsheet. They’re holding the company to an impossible standard. Moreover, they don't actually care about reducing deaths involving Tesla vehicles. They want Tesla to fail so that they can profit. It’s a purely selfish act.

The most prominent member of the TSLAQ people and (IIRC) the first to publicize a spreadsheet of Tesla deaths is Elon Bachman (a pseudonym). He has also been a charlatan on COVID. A year ago he said, “After 4 months of white hot Coronavirus panic, the disaster is visible everywhere except in the data. Total deaths, rounded to the nearest percent, remain 0% of annual flu deaths, and serious cases are falling”[1]

I tried to bet him up to $1,000 that US COVID deaths would exceed 25,000 by the end of 2020.[2] He ignored me and continued to deny the harm caused by the disease.

One simply cannot trust anything he’s involved in.

1. https://twitter.com/ElonBachman/status/1237030292340314112

2. https://twitter.com/ggreer/status/1237164317142736896

parent ggreer 5 years ago

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