Hey, I am Stephen Gandel, a senior editor at Fortune, and have been writing about Tesla and Elon Musk's stock sales recently. AMA!

Hi Stephen, echoing an earlier poster you certainly are brave for coming on Reddit. Question...Do all publicly traded car companies disclose individual deaths in their motor vehicles every time one happens, particularly prior to understanding the cause of the crash? Or put another way, do you have stats on deaths that occurred in cars made by Ford, Toyota, GM and others, and how many of those deaths were explicitly reported and disclosed by the company prior to stock sales? While there may not be a perfect corollary, it would be helpful to see some data that suggests that other companies in similar situations made the public disclosures you expected from Tesla. As an owner of TSLA stock and a CFA charterholder, I don't view this information as material, I would not have bought or sold a single share based on this information. If someone died the first time autopilot was engaged... that would be material; if Tesla had claimed that autopilot will eliminate all deaths in its vehicles...then it would have been material; if another 5 people died within the next month while using autopilot (dramatically swinging the stats)... that would be material; or if a Tesla was hacked, autopilot taken over and the car intentionally crashed...that would be material. If this accident led to a recall of all Tesla vehicles with autopilot enabled...then it would have been material. Given that you believe that Tesla's autopilot technology does in fact make drivers safer, one analogy I would draw is to a maker of ski helmets, which reduce the risk of injury and death while skiing. If a helmeted skier crashed into a tree and died, would the helmet company have to disclose that information prior to selling stock?

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