Anti-Tesla IEEE Report Mysteriously Disappears From Duke Pratt School of Engineering’s Website - CleanTechnica

I saw an odd comment on Reddit about my article on the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) report on Tesla’s Autopilot System. Someone shared the article on Reddit and u/norman_rogerson mentioned that the link to the full report was broken. Very, very odd. I looked over that report with my own two eyes and linked it directly. So I went back to my article and clicked the link expecting to find it again. It led to something new, though. The report is no longer available on Duke Pratt School of Engineering’s website.

I went back to the author’s tweet to see if it was still available. The link was still there, but it did now redirect to the webpage about Robotic Arm—Manual Interface. However, the Wayback Machine has an archive of the report for those who want to read it. Click here for that.

When I brought this up with a few Tesla Twitter friends, one of them, Jessica Meckmann, had the ingenuity to screenshot the URL of the link and shared the screenshot with me. Notice the web address still has “IEEE Tesla” in it.

It seems that the Duke Pratt School of Engineering may have taken that IEEE report down after some backlash, perhaps because one of the authors works for a company specializing in radar and lidar tech that is a competitor of Tesla’s — and especially since Tesla doesn’t use this kind of tech (radar and lidar) for its autonomous driving.

I find this quite interesting and wonder if any outlets that may have used the report or if anyone citing the...

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