FUK THIS PIG AND HIS SHITTY CARS!
Elon Musk’s Tesla Recalls 130K Vehicles as Touch Screens Can Go Blank
Elon Musk Praises Chinese Workers Locked in Factories, Disses Americans as ‘Trying to Avoid Going to Work at All’
Speaking at a recent conference, Tesla CEO Elon Musk once again spoke glowingly of Communist China and its workers, calling Americans lazy in comparison. According to Musk, America’s manufacturing sector employees are “trying to avoid going to work at all.”
Futurism reports that Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk recently praised China again while speaking at the Financial Times‘ Future of the Car summit this week. Musk stated that he believes that the Chinese workforce is significantly harder working than Americans.
Musk stated: “I think there will be some very strong companies coming out of China. There [are] just a lot of supertalented hardworking people in China who strongly believe in manufacturing.”
He added: “They won’t just be burning the midnight oil, they will be burning the 3:00 a.m. oil, they won’t even leave the factory type of thing, whereas in America people are trying to avoid going to work at all.” Perhaps Musk is referring to the fact that the workers in his Chinese factory aren’t even allowed to go home.
In April, Musk praised and thanked the Chinese Communist government for allowing his Tesla facility in the country under a “closed-loop system,” in which employees live on the factory premises and sleep on the factory floor. The company reportedly supplied sleeping bags and a mattress to employees and instructed them to set up camp on a free area of factory floor space.
“All employees will have to take a nucleic acid test daily for the first three days, have their temperature checked twice a day and wash their hands four times a day, twice in the morning and twice again in the afternoon,” Bloomberg reported at the time.
Musk is known for pushing his workers to meet his high demands, a former Tesla manager who claimed to work directly with Musk told Business Insider in 2020: “The worst part is the toxicity that Elon creates — unrealistic stretch targets without a realistic plan in order to achieve them. It’s a culture in which, if you don’t have a solution to a problem and you don’t have that problem resolved within a few days or a week or two, you’re gone.”
Previous stories also surfaced in the past of Musk walking through Tesla facilities and firing employees over minor issues. Other employees were forbidden from calling 911 over significant injuries.
The toxic workplace culture is a hallmark of Musk’s companies including infamous brainchip company Neuralink. On the other hand, Tesla employees seeking abortions can be reimbursed for travel costs associated with ending the life of a baby.
Read more at Futurism here.
Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter @LucasNolan or contact via secure email at the address lucasnolan@protonmail.com
Jeff Bezos speculates whether Tesla's ties to China will give the country any leverage over a Musk-owned Twitter
- Twitter announced it accepted Elon Musk's $44 billion buyout offer on Monday.
- Jeff Bezos took to Twitter to question whether Tesla's business dealings in China would give it leverage over the company.
- Twitter has been banned in mainland China since June 2009 as part of the country's "Great Firewall."
Former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos wondered aloud to his nearly 4 million followers whether Tesla's ties to Chinese suppliers could give the country leverage over Twitter after the social media platform accepted Tesla CEO Elon Musk's buyout offer.
On Monday, Twitter announced it had accepted Musk's buyout offer totaling $44 billion after initially being resistant to the Tesla CEO's takeover proposal. The deal is expected to close this year, the social media platform said, pending feedback from shareholders and other regulatory details.
New York Times reporter Mike Forsyth pointed out in a tweet that the electric-car company's second-biggest market in 2021 was in China, and that Chinese battery makers are major suppliers for Tesla vehicles. Tesla's gigafactory in Shanghai stands at the heart of the company's global supply chain, being its most productive plant in the world, per the Observer.
Forsyth also questioned whether China stands to gain any leverage over Twitter through the deal, a question Jeff Bezos — a longtime rival of Musk's — echoed in a tweet of his own.
"Interesting question," Bezos wrote in the tweet on Tuesday. "Did the Chinese government just gain a bit of leverage over the town square?"
Since June 2009, Twitter has been banned from mainland China as part of the country's "Great Firewall," which also blocks other major social media platforms such as Facebook.
It's not the first time Bezos has weighed in on Musk's Twitter acquisition. Earlier this month, he tweeted out a May 2020 report by Geekwire about a family homeless shelter attached to Amazon's Seattle headquarters and suggested converting at least a part of Twitter's headquarters into a homeless shelter. In response, Musk tweeted that it's a "great idea." Bezos' tweet has since been deleted.
In December, Musk took a playful dig at Bezos when he tweeted a silver-medal emoji at the Amazon founder. Musk had earlier told Forbes that he would send Bezos — previously the richest person in the world — a silver medal when he topped the media outlet's billionaires list.
Musk is currently the richest person in the world with a net worth of $219 billion, according to Forbes. He is followed by Bezos, who's worth an estimated $171 billion.
Musk did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
Elon Musk’s Tesla Recalls 130K Vehicles as Touch Screens Can Go Blank
Elon Musk’s Tesla has recalled approximately 130,000 vehicles across the U.S. as the cars’ touchscreens can overheat and go blank. At the end of 2021, Tesla recalled 475,000 cars, or about half of the vehicles sold in the entire country.
TechXplore reports that Tesla is recalling 130,000 vehicles across the U.S. in yet another major recall. The reason this time relates to the vehicles’ touchscreens which can overheat and go blank. Many cars feature touch screens or digital displays, but unlike other vehicle screens which offer GPS navigation or music displays, the Tesla touch screen is responsible for many of the car’s basic functions.
Without the use of the touch screen, drivers lose access to rearview camera displays, windshield defrosters, and indicators stating whether the car is in drive, neutral, or reverse, which can increase the risk of a crash.
Documents from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) state that during the fast-charging process, the central processing computers may not be sufficiently cooled and can cause the computer to lag, restart, run slowly, or appear completely blank.
Tesla reportedly plans to fix the issue via online software updates that improve temperature management for onboard computers. The company says that the problem was discovered during routine endurance testing and it has no reports o crashes or injuries but did receive 59 warranty-related claims from January to May.
This is not the first time that Tesla has been forced to recall a large number of vehicles in the U.S. Breitbart News reported in December 2021 that Tesla was recalling 475,000 of its vehicles in the U.S. — approximately half of the vehicles it has sold in the country — to address a number of safety issues, one of which is potential front trunk latch failure which would result in the hood of the car flying up while driving and obstructing the driver’s view through the windshield.
The recalls apply to all Model 3 units sold between 2017 and 2020 and a number of Model S units. The Model 3 issue primarily relates to the car’s review camera which can be damaged by the opening and closing of the rear trunk. This can cause the camera to fail and is considered a safety problem.
The Model S issue affects the front trunk latch which appears to be prone to failure. This means that the car’s hood can fly open while driving, covering the windshield entirely. In the Model S vehicles “the front trunk latch assembly may be misaligned, preventing the secondary hood latch from engaging,” Tesla said in an NHTSA filing.
Read more at TechXplore here.
Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter @LucasNolan or contact via secure email at the address lucasnolan@protonmail.com
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