Tech CEO calls for Tesla boycott over self-driving capabilities in Super Bowl ad campaign
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Dan O’Dowd, a fierce critic of Tesla, isn’t pumping the brakes on slamming the electric car maker this year.
Tech entrepreneur Dan O’Dowd, a fierce critic of Tesla, isn’t pumping the brakes on his campaign against the automaker’s self-driving software. O’Dowd’s “The Dawn Project,” which says it wants to make software systems safer for humanity, is airing two ads during the Super Bowl calling on consumers to boycott the electric automaker’s products and stock after running a similar campaign during last year’s Super Bowl. “Buying either puts money in (Tesla founder) Elon (Musk’s) pocket and funds his dangerous self-driving experiments,” a spokesperson for the Dawn Project told CNN on Sunday. “Tesla has failed time and time again to address the failings in its defective self-driving software,” O’Dowd said Sunday in a statement. “When you buy a new Tesla you are financing and enabling Elon Musk to put a dangerous, unfinished, product on our public roads … We have tried to pressure Tesla and Elon Musk to do the right thing and take their defective software off our roads. However, it seems that the only thing that will pressure Tesla and Elon Musk to do the right thing is to deny them your money.” Tesa has not responded to CNN’s request for comment. Last year, the group produced one ad showing Tesla vehicles it implied were using the Full Self-Driving feature. In a series of video tests by The Dawn Project, the cars run over a child-sized dummy on a school crosswalk and a fake baby in a stroller.
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