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Elon Musk Declares NHTSA 'Fun Police' For Banning Inane Gimmicks
Elon Musk Declares NHTSA 'Fun Police' For Banning Inane Gimmicks-September 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:09:25

This picture alone is funnier than any Tesla feature. “Hmmghmghm, yessss massster, I will retrieve the brain”

Plenty of comedians right now are up in arms about cancel culture. From . to to , former comedy heavyweights are constantly trying desperately to remain in the spotlight despite their shitty behaviors and opinions fighting for the freedom of their art form in the face of criticism. The latest name to join this hallowed crowd is an unexpected one, a dark horse of hilarity, a person whose humor drawn the ire of everyone from Twitter haters to regulators: .

Last week, Tesla had to recall over its “BoomBox” feature. Regulations mandate that electric vehicles, which lack grumbling combustion engines to scare off jaywalkers, are when traveling below 18.6 miles per hour. The NHTSA decided that Tesla’s could cover up this mandated sound, and told the company to fix it. Musk, unsurprisingly, was none too happy about that.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, being a government entity concerned with the creation and enforcement of automotive regulations, is less “fun police” and closer to the actual police. One would think that Musk, with his history of , would have a different tone towards the boys in blue .

I’ll admit, I may not be the target audience here. I didn’t grow up with a deep love for the Jackass movies and their brand of humor. It’s possible that “covering up mandatory safety sounds with the noise of various bodily functions” is an absolutely incredible bit of comedy, and that the world is truly worse now that it’s lost that particular bit of levity. That we, societally, may never recover from the blow to our comedic sensibilities that this NHTSA judgment causes. Probably not, though.

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