News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Tesla Has the Highest Fatal Accident Rate of All Auto Brands, Study Finds. Parent comment

Re:Tesla Has the Highest Fatal Accident Rate of All Auto Bra... by ithkuil on Friday November 15, 2024 @06:01PM (#42152262)
The genius would lie in planning that in advance. You'd need to buy Twitter for quite a lot of money, use it to influence elections or at least give the impression that you'd been instrumental in influencing the election so that the new president will want to give you a new department with a funny name you made up.

I don't know man, my Occam's razor cuts another way.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Tesla Has the Highest Fatal Accident Rate of All Auto Bra... by sangnoir on Friday November 15, 2024 @07:07PM (#42152829)
> You'd need to buy Twitter for quite a lot of money

On the other hand, if he had been forced to buy Twitter against his better judgement, he may have an axe to grind against the "overbearing" administrative state and use the tools at hand to achieve his ends. No evil genius required, just happenstance and humans seeing patterns in chaos.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Tesla Has the Highest Fatal Accident Rate of All Auto Bra... by ab5tract on Friday November 15, 2024 @07:57PM (#42153186)
Being “forced” to honor a contract that you yourself entered and legally bound yourself to. The horror, the dishonor, the overreach of justice!
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Tesla Has the Highest Fatal Accident Rate of All Auto Bra... by namaria on Saturday November 16, 2024 @05:52AM (#42155758)
It doesn't take genius for an opportunistic rich person to expand their power and wealth. You're just creating a narrative from a string of cherry picked events. The Twitter acquisition also destroyed a ton of value.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Tesla Has the Highest Fatal Accident Rate of All Auto Bra... by ivewonyoung on Saturday November 16, 2024 @06:08AM (#42155815)
It is not a department.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Tesla Has the Highest Fatal Accident Rate of All Auto Bra... by ithkuil on Saturday November 16, 2024 @07:58AM (#42156180)
Indeed, it's a Presidential advisory commission.

To create a federal executive department you need an act of Congress which is not very efficient.

It's much more efficient to just use the name "department" and bet on the chance that nobody would care about words, meanings, facts and rules.

[ Parent | on HN ]