Elon Musk's Tesla experiment: Unchecked ambition costs lives
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“Elon Musk, who this week topped Forbes' Billionaires list for the second year in a row, is on course to become the world's first trillionaire.”
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“Musk is bound to remain in the spotlight due to his polarizing views, including his active support for Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany party.”
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“His Tesla plant near Berlin also recently made headlines, as a works council election that concluded on March 4 left the factory non-unionized.”
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“Germany's largest union accused Tesla of intimidating staff.”
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“Musk himself warned that if the union gained influence, the expansion of the factory, which has around 10,000 employees, could be jeopardized.”
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“Musk is 'a declared opponent of any kind of union organization in his companies,' filmmaker Andreas Pichler told DW.”
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“The film looks into how the billionaire pushed his self-driving Tesla car models, regardless of the human impact linked to safety issues previously flagged by the firm's experts.”
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“Among the whistleblowers is Lukasz Krupski, who leaked a trove of 3,000 customer complaints to German newspaper Handelsblatt in 2023.”
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“In those thousands of cases, drivers reported that their autopilot-equipped Tesla had accelerated on its own, or suddenly braked, leading to crashes.”
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“Tesla insisted on keeping everything under cover, and Krupski said he was harassed, threatened and eventually fired for noting the major safety problems.”
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“The Benavides family from Florida, who sued the car manufacturer after 22-year-old Naibel Benavides Leon was killed in a crash involving a Model S Tesla.”
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“A landmark verdict was reached in 2025, six years after the tragic accident. Tesla, found to be 33% responsible for the crash, has been ordered to pay $243 million to the victim's family.”
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“The carmaker's attempt to overturn the verdict was rejected by a federal judge in February 2026. Tesla is expected to appeal.”
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“Musk has publicly stated that his primary motivation for accumulating wealth is to fund a self-sustaining city of a million people on Mars by 2050.”
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“The technology and AI that is being developed for Tesla is therefore seen as highly relevant to building autonomous robots that will be required to colonize the hostile environment of Mars.”
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“Musk advocates a form of transhumanism that focuses on merging human consciousness with artificial intelligence to prevent humans from becoming 'redundant.'”
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“Pichler noted that this idea of transhumanism seems extremely compelling to many people. 'There are apparently enough people in the world who fully believe that technology can solve everything,' he said. 'And that's a problem.'”
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