The TL;DR in one quote:

Job cuts at the US traffic safety regulator instigated by Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency disproportionately hit staff assessing self-driving risks, hampering oversight of technology on which the world’s richest man has staked the future of Tesla.

An interesting quote from a Tesla manager:

“Letting Doge fire those in the autonomous division is sheer madness—we should be lobbying to add people to NHTSA,” said one manager at Tesla. They “need to be developing a national framework for AVs, otherwise Tesla doesn’t have a prayer for scale in FSD or robotaxis.”

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    3 days ago

    What do these idiots think they’re gonna do when a good chunk of the population loses their homes and comfortable lives because of them?

    They buy your houses from you and rent them right back to you. That’s what Nestle has done with the poor farmers and all their land (not just their houses) in Romania.

    The world is beyond capitalism. It is a new feudalism now. Yanis Varoufakis was right.

    They employ even more police (and more guns for them), so that you don’t get no funny ideas.

    But if you get funny ideas anyway, they have surveillance of all phones and internet. You have read your George Orwell, haven’t you?