“This is totally just an accident. We use AI to calculate our sales and apply that to the rebate program. So it’s totally not criminal fraud or anything. Thanks.”
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On a positive note, that kind of claim has been struck down in Canada before.
Wow, the entire thing was over such a petty amount. The plaintiff was only awarded $812.02, and that was for both damages and court fees. So presumably, the price of the refunded tickets would've been even less than that. Instead of just paying that (relative) pocket change, Air Canada chose to go to court, where they not only lost, but set a precedent that holds businesses responsible for their AI's accuracy in the future.
Such a beautiful story :')
This makes me wonder how much they've gotten away with in other countries. Who knows if the sales numbers they've been reporting are even accurate?
Tesla's stock is an irrational, overinflated hype stock with an absurd price-to-earnings ratio and a large-shareholder CEO who was being investigated by the SEC before he dismantled it.
Considering that the stocks are used as his personal piggybank and his history of totally-not-market-manipulation-because-there-are-no-charges, I would be more surprised if the sales numbers are accurate.
Anybody else just get a boner?
Nah, just revoke them. The government reserves the right to change its mind.
Something tells me those funds are frozen in the way that stuff north of the permafrost line gets frozen and never gets unfrozen
Easier to stave off a lawsuit if you don't say what you mean, you just do what you mean, you know?
Nice image, but has the flaw that the Permafrost is melting around the globe at increasing rates.
Ever since this broke I’ve been so curious to see which are dealers with bad, rushed paperwork before a deadline that they let pile up before mass-submitting, and how many are outright fraud. Neither would surprise me at this point.
One store in ontario had 1200 in one day and a store in quebec 4000 during a week-end so i vote for fraud
It would not surprise either if a lot of the swastikar vandalism was assurance fraud too
That's the number they sent, we don't know the sales dates on those so maybe they were just super bad at submitting the paperwork...
The rebate is quite large. $5,000 or thereabouts in most cases. The company also fronts that money to the customer, and then claims reimbursement from the government.
Have you ever known any business to delay in collecting $5,000, particularly when it is sitting as a liability on their books until they collect? Much less to do that more than 8,000 times?
I'll never accuse Tesla of being managed by competent people 🤷