Monday, 4 August 2025

Google results show clear bias against Tesla


Aussie-based Musk fan-boy and Tesla Bull, Steven Mark Ryan, conducts a test. Which he describes above. Interesting. 

I got the same results when I Googled "Tesla". Every single result was negative. 

The real crime here by Google is that they post anecdotes not data. Anecdotes about one single accident of a Tesla using self-drive software. 

Whereas the data are these: 

1. Tesla vehicles are the safest cars in America. The Model Y has been rated THE safest car in America, for the past seven straight years, as tested by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Here

2. The Tesla FSD "Full Self Driving", with human oversight, is NINE times safer than driving without the FSD. Here

To repeat: driving with Tesla's self-driving software is FIVE times safer than driving by oneself. That's the real story. Not that there's the occasional crash. For there will always be. But that it's way safer, by almost an order of magnitude, to use Tesla's FSD than it is to drive oneself. Imagine the benefits for society at large when this software becomes the standard. The benefits will run into the billions, apart from the benefits of fewer families ripped apart by the tragedy of a serious car accident. 

These facts are surely relevant. 

But not to Google.

You find them nowhere in the Google results. How can this be a fair search result? Obviously it is not. 

Turns out that YouTube, for all its own faults and biases, does a better and fairer job than Google in giving a balanced story. 

Musk and Tesla are improving life in America. Its environment and its people. But the mainstream hates him. Because, you know, Trump. And Doge. That is a seriously warped view, IMO. One that is bad for America. 

https://youtu.be/7c2Pmjxhpes?si=ensJKN4jwDwxnLWF

For the record: Tesla Bulls and Bears are here