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Elon Musk - bred, born, and raised technocrat. His grandfather, Joshua Haldeman, a chiropractor in Canada was the head of Technocracy Incorporated in Canada.

Technocracy Inc. was shut down in Canada because the ideas for the Technate were too much like the Nazi SS. So Haldeman packed up the family and migrated to South Africa and raised his family where grandson, Elon, was hatched.

Technocracy Incorporated

“founded in New York City in 1933 as an educational and research organization promoting a radical restructuring of political, social and economic life in Canada and the United States, with science as its central operating principle.”

A captured government and regulator are layered in the Technate at the same level as in the Global Public–Private Partnership (GPPP).

“All the normal functions of government would be run by experts chosen by their peers. They would select a cabinet called the Continental Board, which would then choose a continental director.”

https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/technocracy-incorporated-elon-musk

Is the G3P the modern day Technate of the 1930’s?

Experimental gene therapies, Neurolinks, 5G, metaverse, energy certificates, a global Technate mixed with bio-security ideology - seriously, what else could anyone wish for???

I’ll just take the wafer thin mint and be done with it.

https://youtu.be/uRpt4a6H99c

BTW, your satirical writing is quick, sharp, and dark with good rhythm. The sarcasm is appreciated by this 1970’s Atari pong champion.

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Ignasz, I love what you have written in so many of your posts. In particular, I thought The Train was a piece of seminal importance and I have shared it widely.

But on this, you have commented without doing anywhere close to the needed homework. MSM journalists have done a lot of shitposting on Tesla; I'm sorry you joined in without checking it for the truth first.

Zero, none, not one Tesla car is driving on American streets or public streets anywhere in the world without a driver continuously at the wheel and in control of the car at all times.

Just about every car on the road, irrespective of the manufacturer, has cruise control. Many smart cruise controls now will keep the cars tracking in their lanes, accelerate and decelerate to flow with traffic (including speeding - driving above the posted speed limit to stay with the traffic flow), and provide emergency braking if the car identifies a problem before the driver does. But the driver remains ultimately responsible for what the car does, and he or she is expected to have his or her hands on the wheel and his or her foot covering the brake. That is true whether you are driving an Audi, a Chevrolet, a Citroën, a Hyundai or a Tesla. And if you crash your car with the cruise control on, it is you, not the manufacturer who is responsible (unless the software interfered with your control or created the unsafe condition).

If you can't safely manage cruise control, turn it off. In any manufacturer's vehicle. That's your responsibility as a driver, plain and simple.

Autopilot is the name of Tesla's cruise control. It is fully certified and it has come on all Teslas built since (I believe) 2016. It is an advanced cruise control, but no more than that.

Elon Musk also thinks Tesla can develop automotive Artificial Intelligence that can drive more safely than a human driver. It hasn't done so, at least not yet.

But Tesla hasn't put any driverless cars on the road. (By the way, Google's Waymo division has done so, but you don't hear the MSM squawking about that. I wonder why?) Elon Musk said he wouldn't even seek regulatory approval for Full Self Driving until it can demonstrably drive 10 times more safely than a human driver.

Tesla has been testing the "Full Self Driving - Beta Test" software on specific vehicles, with specially qualified drivers at the wheel (holding the steering wheel at all times, just like with cruise control) and continuously transmitting information back to the company: what works well, and what doesn't. When drivers see something they don't like, they are supposed to flag the event. And they are supposed to click off the software if anything looks unsafe or is just wrong.

Originally, only a few people were qualified to do the testing. As the software has gotten better, Tesla offered the option to download the Beta Test software to select owners who agreed first to be pre-screened for safe driving practices and skill. Today, only pre-screened safe drivers are even given the opportunity to download and test the FSD-Beta software, and they must remain in full control of their cars at all times. In essence, they are testing a very advanced cruise control and they must continuously be ready to override it. I know one of the test drivers personally, and I have followed the development of the technology closely.

"By their fruits ye shall know them." To date, there has not been one single accident testing the FSD Beta software. Not one. Anywhere. Despite many drivers testing it every day.

Cruise controls allow cars to speed every day even though the cars identify the speed limits. Correction: the gun didn't shoot the victim, the perpetrator shot the victim with a gun. Every day, drivers speed their cars using their cruise controls.

Tesla allowed FSD Beta testers to select or de-select a "rolling stop" option in the software. Common in many parts of the US, when traffic is light or nonexistent, drivers sometimes roll past stop signs at a few miles per hour. It is also called a "California Stop" because it is very common for drivers in California.

For those drivers who selected the "rolling stop" setting, Tesla's engineers set further limits: the cars would always come to a full stop at a stop sign anyway, unless three conditions were met. 1: Four-way stop signs all around (the car's 8 cameras and processor read the physical stop signs reliably), 2: none of the roads has a speed limit greater than 30 miles per hour, and 3: there is no conflicting traffic or pedestrians (the software reliably identifies not only vehicles and fixed obstacles, but bicyclists, pedestrians and animals). If any of those three conditions were not met, the car came to a complete stop even with "rolling stop" selected. (Incidentally, Tesla's software is already proving very good at identifying and avoiding other drivers running red lights, wild animals in the roadway, etc.)

NHTSA objected that the software allowed a technical violation of law, even though drivers do that every day anyway, and NHTSA inconsistently hasn't prohibited cruise controls that identify the speed limit but allow speeding anyway. Tesla complied with NHTSA's ruling by transmitting a wireless update to all the vehicles, and the option disappeared overnight.

No pedestrians were injured in the writing of my post. Nor have they been, in the testing of the FSD-Beta software.

Many in the MSM saw the NHTSA non-story as a perfect opportunity to fearmonger with a combination of buried context and outright misinformation. I expected a higher level of discernment here.

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