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- "The Justice Department’s Autopilot probe is far from recommending any action partly because it is competing with two other DOJ investigations involving Tesla

- "The Justice Department’s Autopilot probe is far from recommending any action partly because it is competing with two other DOJ investigations involving Tesla, one of the sources said. Investigators still have much work to do and no decision on charges is imminent, this source said." - "The Justice Department may also face challenges in building its case, said the sources, because of Tesla’s warnings about overreliance on Autopilot." How often do criminal defendants get to read the internal deliberations of their prosecuting office, and before they're even charged? What a dysfunctional mess. This leak was unethical, unlawful, and unworthy of the gravitas of an office whose work puts people in prison.

tptacek 4y ago
If I search the NYT from 1990 to 2010 for "DOJ" "charges imminent", I get >2000 results. There's nothing happening with respect to Tesla here that doesn't happen all the time. DOJ is a big organization; it has 100,000 employees. We just notice this stuff when it intersects people and companies we have a rooting interest (one way or the other) in.
londons_explore 4y ago
> How often do criminal defendants get to read the internal deliberations of their prosecuting office, and before they're even charged? There's really no reason this info should be secret. If you can provide extra info to persuade them not to charge you, then all the better - time saved for both parties.
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maxbond 4y ago
It's entirely possible DOJ decided this was a good time to leak this information. For instance, just spitballing, they might be saying, "hey, we're going to bring charges, but not for a while, and we want to tell investors ahead of time so that the news causes less volatility, and the volatility will be better isolated to just Tesla." No real way to know from the outside, unless they bring charges against a leaker.

tptacek 4y ago

If I search the NYT from 1990 to 2010 for "DOJ" "charges imminent", I get >2000 results. There's nothing happening with respect to Tesla here that doesn't happen all the time. DOJ is a big organization; it has 100,000 employees. We just notice this stuff when it intersects people and companies we have a rooting interest (one way or the other) in.

londons_explore 4y ago

> How often do criminal defendants get to read the internal deliberations of their prosecuting office, and before they're even charged? There's really no reason this info should be secret. If you can provide extra info to persuade them not to charge you, then all the better - time saved for both parties.

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maxbond 4y ago

It's entirely possible DOJ decided this was a good time to leak this information. For instance, just spitballing, they might be saying, "hey, we're going to bring charges, but not for a while, and we want to tell investors ahead of time so that the news causes less volatility, and the volatility will be better isolated to just Tesla." No real way to know from the outside, unless they bring charges against a leaker.