Tesla and Elon Musk exposed

New method is to "leak" emails to get around the SEC shuttering his Twitter down.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/29/read-tesla-ceo-elon-musk-email-on-vehicle-deliveries-meetings.html

"We've been short Tesla since the low 300's. We believe the company is going to have to restructure," he says. "We believe the company is going to be zeroed out, it's going to be worthless as far as the equity is concerned."

"They have very poor management. Elon Musk is not a genius, he's not a visionary. He's a charlatan, he's a carnival barker. He can not replace any of the massive amounts of management that are leaving the company,"

: "If you look at the product that Tesla is actually making now, this Model 3, it is absolute garbage. This is not the 'S' and it's not the 'X'. That's the old Tesla. This new Tesla is being thrown together by hand in a tent. You can't go through a car wash. These things are blowing up all the time. The batteries are incinerating. It is not a quality product.

I love cars... probably spend way too much on them. Not an electric fanboy, my baby is a 67 chavell.

I bought a model 3. It’s just as well put together as my Ford Mustang and wife’s Acura. It’s a very fun, sporty car to drive and a great commuter. Wouldn’t drive it more than the distance I can get on one charge tho.

Tesla has a good thing going and has changed the industry. Not sure why people hate this American car company. Musk is a d-bag but the cars are decent.

Elon Musk is developing a chip to implant in the brain that allows humans to control computers with their minds ... and says a monkey's already done it. The tech guru made the stunning announcement Tuesday to employees at his neurotechnology company, Neuralink. While answering a question about testing the chip on animals, Musk said the results have been "very positive," and went on to boast ... "A monkey has been able to control a computer with its brain, just FYI."

So, what exactly is the goal of this? Musk wants to create a "brain-computer interface," and design a chip that can be implanted in the brain capable of transmitting signals with it.

He says the short-term goal would be to treat various brain disorders like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, but ultimately ... Musk's mission is to achieve "symbiosis with artificial intelligence."

Translation -- our brains would be directly connected to computers for mutual benefit. You'll literally have Google on the brain.

What could possibly go wrong?

Musk hosted a YouTube livestream on Tuesday where he and a group of scientists explained his proposal to insert tiny microchips into the brain that would be connected to 1,000 wires approximately one-tenth the width of a single human hair. This would theoretically enable the human brain to synchronize with computer devices. “If you’re going to stick something in a brain, you want it not to be large,” Musk said.

A chipped individual would wear a small computerized device over their ear to enable the Neuralink connection. The microchip would also have a USB-C port and could be connected to a smartphone through Bluetooth technology.

Musk plays up the possible revolutionary uses for such a device like combating memory loss in quadriplegics, cancer patients, stroke victims, or others with serious brain function defects. As many of 10 of these devices can be placed into one individual’s brain.

In order to implant the device, a robot will drill a hole into an individual’s head which will be plugged by the chip.

“The interface to the chip is wireless, so you have no wires poking out of your head. That’s very important,” Musk said.

Critics point to possible ways that Musk’s grand vision could go horribly wrong.

“The idea of entrusting big enterprise with our brain data should create a certain level discomfort for society,” said Daniel Newman, principal analyst at Futurum Research, who is skeptical of Musk’s ambitious project. “There is no evidence that we should trust or be comfortable with moving in this direction,” he added.

“Gathering data from raw brain activity could put people in great risk, and could be used to influence, manipulate and exploit them,” said Frederike Kaltheuner, who monitors corporate exploitation for Privacy International, to CNN Business. “Who has access to this data? Is this data shared with third parties? People need to be in full control over their data,” she added.

The lawsuit of Tesla v. Hothi, which began with a series of Tesla lies, has ended with a series of Tesla lies, told by Tesla's latest legal counsel in dismissing the lawsuit late yesterday to avoid complying with a Court order that Tesla turn over the audio, video, and photographic recordings that supposedly show the dangerous conduct of Mr. Hothi.

So, here is how it all went down:

Smear Mr. Hothi with reckless and false allegations in TRO application of which Hothi receives no notice and no chance to offer his side of the story.

Stir up the loyal, cultish Tesla fans to attack him as dangerous, criminal, and worse.

Attempt to destroy his academic ambitions and employment prospects.

Then, refuse to produce the evidence, and instead lie to the Court and to the public about what happened.

This is what Tesla under Elon Musk has become. This is Musk's stamp on the Tesla corporate culture. This is who they are.

Attorney Sperlein has sent Tesla's counsel a letter warning that Hothi may well pursue a malicious prosecution claim or similar claim, and that Tesla should take care that none of the evidence is tampered with or destroyed.

Racket wrote:

why do these Tesla threads keep getting bumped? Is someone here trying to short or pump it?

The article starts by immediately making excuses for Tesla at the expense of short sellers, claiming that "instead of dealing just with production and sales issues, [Tesla] also has to deal with the so-called shorters." Anyway, here's what the insider says.

Then he switches to a religious tenor.

In describing Model 3 quality, he said:

"I kinda made the joke that when a car would come in and there were parts missing off of it, I'd say that one came out of the tent. I had to remove tape [from cars being taped together]. They would deliver Model 3's on a diesel, the driver would unload the cars, hand me the keys and I would take the cars down to parking storage. I had a list of customers that were coming in that day. I would have to move the cars down and prep them so they could be washed. Half of that was just me taking tape off the car. I found interior door panels were not held on by anything. No clips, just tape. It was a circus. It's true. "

Finally he drifts to conspiracy theories.

A Tesla owner in Finland recently had the paint of his Model 3 inspected, revealing "extremely poor readings" for both thickness and hardness. Meanwhile, Tesla continues to negotiate the settlement of about 19 air quality violations from its Fremont, California paint shop. The inspection was requested by lawyers representing Joni Savolainen, a Model 3 owner who was in disbelief at the damage to his car's paint after driving just 1,367 miles. The inspection was conducted by Finland's Central Chamber of Commerce and was requested after "repeated attempts" to get Tesla to fix the issue. Savolainen and a Canadian Tesla owner named Roger-Pierre Gravel are considering legal action against the company over the weak paint on their vehicles, which is an issue that has been widely documented on Tesla forums, with reports of prematurely chipped paint.

The inspection used a standard hardness test known as the Wolff-Wilborn pencil scratch test and the inspection rated the Model 3's paint hardness "F", which is several levels softer than the 2H-3H level that is standard for many automobiles. Savolainen's Model 3 was also found to have much thinner paint than the standard 110-115 microns. His vehicle averaged 106 microns.

In areas where the paint had already chipped, thickness was "well below the lower tolerance range given by the manufacturer" according to the inspection report.

The paint on the bottom of the left and right rear doors measured just 72 microns, while the bottom of the left and right front doors measured just 71 and 74 microns, respectively.

"In my opinion, there were discrepancies in the thickness of the paint on the subject of the inspection because, in my experience, automotive paint of the tested price range has a thickness of 110-150 µm and there are no completely unpainted areas in visible parts of the vehicle, doorways, or other areas. In addition, during my career in the automotive industry, I have not encountered a situation where the amount of rock blast on the sides of a car with this amount of driving and the conditions described. Joni Savolainen said that the car was driven only on permanent pavements. However, this cannot be verified by technical methods.

The total thickness of the paint on the subject's flanks are extremely thin and the paint film is soft, which is why stone blemishes are more easily formed in these areas than in areas with a thicker paint layer. The thickness of the paint film is determined by the new car in the production process."

Mr. Epstein avoided specifics about his work for Tesla. He told me that he had good reason to be cryptic: Once it became public that he was advising the company, he’d have to stop doing so, because he was “radioactive.” He predicted that everyone at Tesla would deny talking to him or being his friend.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-08-13/epstein-claimed-2018-he-was-working-elon-musk-find-teslas-new-chairman