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without the ads. This is the Tom Hartman program.

Elon Musk is, of course, the guy who bought the presidency for Donald Trump, and is also the guy who seems to think he's running America.

And he, of course, most of his fortune is from this company, Tesla, which he bought from two guys

who started it back in the day. Elon has not really invented anything other than, you know,

how to build a business. And he's quite competent at that, apparently,

although the people over at Twitter

would like to have a word with you about that.

Nonetheless, one of the things that Musk does not like

is the fact that there have been nine different safety recalls

on vehicles that have auto-driving systems and involving four different companies,

including Tesla, and that 40 out of 45 fatal crashes, according to the National Highway

Safety Administration, 40 out of 45 fatal crashes involving these automated

driving systems have been with Tesla vehicles.

So what do you do when you don't like that kind of publicity?

You shoot the investigators, metaphorically.

So here's the headline.

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