The safest car in the world? Crash tests answer only part of that question. While reviewers admire Tesla’s latest dashboard tricks, I keep noticing the security fixes in its release notes. As AI gives attackers better tools, the less entertaining question becomes harder to ignore: how well is your connected car being maintained after you buy it?
Category: Science
Whalefall: At Least Sharknado Knows It’s Stupid
I have not seen Whalefall, and its sales pitch has convinced me to preserve that achievement. A man spends an hour inside a whale processing his relationship with his dead father. Apparently, digestion now comes with character development. Give me Sharknado: at least its nonsense doesn’t expect to be mistaken for emotional depth.
Phishing Has Discovered Swiss German, and It Is Glorious
Phishing has discovered Swiss German, with predictably glorious results. Armed with AI, scammers are now localising their emails into synthetic dialect, apparently unaware that Swiss German is spoken everywhere but written very selectively. The result is less sophisticated social engineering than a cultural misunderstanding with a malicious link attached.
Tesla FSD Supervised and the Dinosaur thinking around it
Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Supervised is still dismissed as “just driver assistance” by many critics. But that misses the point entirely. While others debate labels, Tesla is solving the far harder problem: real-world driving across complex environments, powered by a software-first approach that improves at relentless speed. This is not about Level 3 badges or sensor checklists. It is about who is building the smarter, scalable, and ultimately more relevant model for the future of mobility.
Fair Play: Tesla Delivered!
After all the noise, shifting expectations and familiar Tesla theatre, there is now something real on the table: approval. RDW has granted provisional validity for Tesla’s FSD in the Netherlands, and that deserves recognition. My original skepticism was reasonable at the time, but facts matter more than ego. So yes, fair play to Tesla. This time, the hype was followed by paperwork, and that makes all the difference.
Tesla’s FSD Deadline Farce
Tesla’s April 10 FSD saga was never just about one missed date. It was about a company once again feeding the public a timeline it did not truly control, while the responsible Dutch authority communicated in far more cautious terms. That is the real problem: not delay itself, but the sloppy, hype-driven habit of turning expectations into apparent facts and leaving everyone else to deal with the confusion.
The EU’s Singing Christmas Car… and other Automotive Nightmares
There was a time, legend has it, when a driver was considered a person capable of operating a vehicle using a combination of skill, awareness, and a driver’s license. A document explicitly confirming one’s ability to steer a machine without…
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Porsche and the End of Permanence: When Legends become Disposable
There are collapses that announce themselves with noise, and others that begin quietly. Porsche’s moment arrived in silence. A company long defined by waiting lists and admiration has reported a near €1 billion quarterly loss and almost total profit evaporation.…
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A Case for Tesla: Vision Only?
Elon Musk is renowned for his ambitious, often grandiose visions, and his tendency to announce groundbreaking technology far in advance. Yet, the timelines Musk sets for Tesla’s developments, particularly in autonomous driving, frequently go unmet, causing many to dismiss his…
The Two Faces of Elon Musk: A Tale of Two Companies
Just three days after what can only be described as an underwhelming performance at Tesla’s much-hyped Robotaxi event, Elon Musk’s other brainchild, SpaceX, achieved an engineering feat that borders on the surreal. The largest multi-stage rocket ever launched successfully reached…
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