Nope, he is simply saying that a human of sound state of mind does not have these accidents. The authorities are simply viewing Tesla's credibility as undermin

Nope, he is simply saying that a human of sound state of mind does not have these accidents. The authorities are simply viewing Tesla's credibility as undermined. They ask themselves, if it can't do this, how can it get anything right, or there must be many more flaws. The humans do not like to pass over control to machines unless the machines do it clearly better. And in this case, the authority does not want to have their credibility shot by looking away from the Tesla issue, it cannot be pushed under the metaphorical carpet anymore, there is a bulge under the carpet visible to anyone who wants to see.