Elon Musk is massive mad at a report that form of kind of implied that one in all his favourite robots attacked one in all his staff at Tesla’s Austin, Texas manufacturing unit two years in the past. The report by no means really mentioned it was one in all his shiny (fuckable?) Optimus mates, but it surely didn’t precisely spotlight that it was a terrifying robotic arm meant for selecting up scrap steel.
Musk is pissed because of the “social media sharing image” (a bit information girl converse for you there) on the unique story from the Daily Mail, which broke the information of the assault. The picture features a break up of Cowboy Elon and a small legion of his Optimus robots. The whole submit, certainly, nonetheless contains photos of Optimus robots whereas by no means as soon as mentioning them within the story.
Misleading? Yep. It’s why we right here at Jalopnik stayed away from the story, because the Mail isn’t recognized for being probably the most dependable supply. While it could look like Musk is lacking the forest of assault robots for the innocent robots bushes, the occasion itself sounds terrifying, however all too frequent on America’s manufacturing unit flooring:
A Tesla engineer was attacked by a robotic throughout a brutal and bloody malfunction on the firm’s Giga Texas manufacturing unit close to Austin.
Two witnesses watched in horror as their fellow worker was attacked by the machine designed to seize and transfer freshly forged aluminum automotive elements.
The robotic had pinned the person, who was then programming software program for 2 disabled Tesla robots close by, earlier than sinking its steel claws into the employee’s again and arm, leaving a ‘trail of blood’ alongside the manufacturing unit floor.
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The two eyewitnesses to the occasion — which occurred within the part of the Texas manufacturing unit flooring the place automobile chassis are first assembled — advised reporters for The Information a extra harrowing story, nonetheless.
As the bleeding Tesla engineer tried to wrestle free from the meeting robotic’s grasp, one other employee hit an emergency ‘stop’ button to finish the assault.
Once free, the engineer fell ‘a couple of feet down a chute designed to collect scrap aluminum, leaving a trail of blood behind him,’ in keeping with The Information, a subscription-based tech information web site.
OSHA has discovered that Tesla has a behavior underreporting accidents, so it’s not out of the realm of chance in any respect that Tesla is now, however the Mail report goes on to say Tesla has a a lot increased fee of damage than different auto vegetation (one thing we’ve coated as properly.) If Tesla is dishonest the system, why wouldn’t it go all the best way? The Mail additionally speaks to a lawyer representing injured contractors and staff, who says damage figures are a lot increased than what’s being reported and reported to OHSA concerning the violations, however her statements are nonetheless gentle on information and precise findings. All of this, plus the a number of photos of Optimus robots that fill the physique of the story, makes me assume the Daily Mail has carried out what it all the time does—create a technically appropriate, however sloppy and deceptive story, for the clicks.
This entire factor put me within the uncomfortable and unfamiliar place of frivolously defending Elon Musk. Ugh. His approach of doing enterprise is nonetheless dangerous and, most of all, harmful for staff, however there’s lots to dislike about Musk with out bringing his (thus far) harmless intercourse robots into it.
Source: jalopnik.com