schizoidman@lemmy.ml to [Dormant] Electric Vehicles (Moved to !electricvehicles@slrpnk.net)@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoNikola founder Trevor Milton sentenced to four years in prison in EV truck fraud casewww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square10linkfedilinkarrow-up174arrow-down10
arrow-up174arrow-down1external-linkNikola founder Trevor Milton sentenced to four years in prison in EV truck fraud casewww.theverge.comschizoidman@lemmy.ml to [Dormant] Electric Vehicles (Moved to !electricvehicles@slrpnk.net)@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square10linkfedilink
minus-squarejonnelinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·2 years agoIirc he got caught doing basically what Musk does: faking things in the demo and hoping the engineers can figure it out later. I don’t see a huge difference between the ‘Tesla robot’ and what this guy did with the truck.
minus-squarejoel_feila@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoWell how much money did Tesla get over the bot? That would be key.
minus-squareLophostemon@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoI don’t even know anything about this guy beyond what the headline says.
Iirc he got caught doing basically what Musk does: faking things in the demo and hoping the engineers can figure it out later. I don’t see a huge difference between the ‘Tesla robot’ and what this guy did with the truck.
Bigger money beats smaller money.
Well how much money did Tesla get over the bot? That would be key.
I don’t even know anything about this guy beyond what the headline says.