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The Center for American Progress reports
Tesla has expanded its list of worker injuries following a report published in Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, which flagged under-counting and safety problems at the company's Fremont, California facility last month.
The move also comes one week after CEO and founder Elon Musk blasted the media for reporting on the discrepancies and threatened to start a Yelp-like site to rate journalists.
"Tesla disputed our reporting showing that it left worker injuries off the books", Reveal tweeted [May 29]. "Now, it's begun adding some of the injuries that had been missing."
The original Reveal report, published on April 16, claimed that Tesla officials were under-reporting work-related injuries sustained by employees in order to make the company's safety numbers appear more favorable to industry critics. The company instead wrote many complaints off as "personal medical issues or minor incidents requiring only first aid", according to internal company records. In May, pressure on the company doubled after an unfavorable review by Consumer Reports found troubling flaws in the Tesla Model 3's braking system, the second critical report from the austere publication.
Responding to the criticism last week, Musk went on a Twitter rant, claiming that the negative press was part of "a calculated disinformation campaign."
[...] Reveal's criticisms appear to have some merit, however. As the outlet noted on [May 29], following Musk's Twitter rant and the earlier media reports, Tesla officials allegedly quietly revised the company's books to add more names to the company's list of worker injuries, including at least "13 injuries from 2017 that had been missing when Tesla certified its legally mandated injury report earlier this year."
"Alaa Alkhafagi, for example, smashed his face and arm in the paint department last fall. He said he had been asked to perform a task for which he had no training", reporter Will Evans wrote. "At the time of the injury, Tesla didn't put Alkhafagi on official injury logs, even though the accident caused him to miss work. ...By late April, Tesla had added him to the 2017 logs, dating his injury Oct. 1 and noting that he missed three days of work because of it."
(Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 31 2018, @04:17AM (2 children)
Yesterday, a Tesla on Autopilot ran into a parked police car and ruined both cars--
https://www.autoblog.com/2018/05/29/tesla-hits-parked-police-vehicle-autopilot/ [autoblog.com]
There is a small possibility that further investigation will reveal that the car was not on autopilot, in which case the driver is, IMO, a distracted idiot.
Never a good idea to hit a cop car, even if it's empty at the time. Will the city retaliate, rule that Autopilot can't be used within city limits?
Personally, as a sometimes-utility cyclist, I'm kinda worried too--if it couldn't see a car, how is it going to see me cycling along in the same spot?
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Thursday May 31 2018, @05:57AM (1 child)
You go to websites, right? You look at the websites. We all do, we're not babies. And those websites, sometimes they ask, touch the squares that have street signs. The squares that have store fronts. Or the squares that have cars. Somehow when we do that, it proves we're not a robot. Because no robot can do that. And somehow when we do that, it goes into making a better robot car. We're doing that work, we're doing it for free. And they have Donald J. Trump working -- for free -- on making a robot car. So I can look at those very special websites, very sexy. We're like mice building better and better mouse traps. Except that didn't happen, this is happening. But let me tell you, I've never seen them ask about the squares that have people walking. Or the squares with somebody on a bicycle. And the Uber robot car had a problem. As everyone knows, it had a problem with someone walking. Someone on bicycle, why is it easy for a robot to know what that is, what's going on, why? They're working very hard -- making us work very hard -- on what does a car look like, what does a sign look like. And possibly the Tesla robot car has a lot of trouble knowing what a car looks like. So maybe that's a hard one for the robots. But I think it would be smart for them to teach the robot, this is somebody walking. Or this is somebody doing bicycle. And possibly you're right, it's not easy. Good luck!!!!
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 31 2018, @04:47PM
Pro tip: A lot of the times those CAPTCHAs will verify you even if you intentionally answer a square or two incorrectly; I always make a habit of doing so if I'm not in a hurry to post right away. Fuck Google. If they want to use me for free labor then they can get bad data!