A Tragic Loss

Saving resources by skipping on safety features is not exclusive to capitalism. If anything, the correlation seems to run backwards - capitalist countries are generally safer (mostly, I'd say, because they're rich enough to spend extra resources on safety).

In case of non-profits and the government people might actually sue for wasting of money because money is spent on stuff that is not required by law.

Can you give an example of such a lawsuit ever having succeeded?

But you have not said this is important enough for you to read, right now, nor especially important enough to remember every detail. If everything written were important to read, we'd spend our lifetimes failing to work through the backlog - of every word ever written since the dawn of writing. There are key points to remember, and then supporting facts to be forgotten after they've done their job of arguing for those key points, and this language emphasizes their key points (in defense of Tesla, naturally, rather than the mundane statistics.)

> Further saying that it is important is a crutch.

Perhaps. But remember - crutches are legitimate medical devices built to serve a need, they have purpose! I tend to use the terser "IMPORTANT:", "NOTE WELL:", "N.B.:"[1], "NOTE:", etc. to call attention to high priority stuff. I'll especially use this style of emphasis in code, where I can't make my text bold, underlined, large-fonted, red, blinking for emphasis, embedded into a modal dialog you can't dismiss for the first 10 seconds, just to make sure you read the damn thing. These are the notes I deem to have e.g. a 100:1 time saved/spent ratio, where I need my fellow programmers to stop skimming as a thousand inane comments before have perhaps trained them to do, and to instead save us all a lot of time and energy by reading the important thing.

But being that terse in a press release like this would come across as incredibly tone deaf and insensitive. Try replacing "It is important to emphasize that" with "NOTE:" and "It is important to note that" with "IMPORTANT:". The paragraphs themselves might read fine, but in the broader context of the press release it'd be cringe worthy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nota_bene

Original:

We learned yesterday evening that NHTSA is opening a preliminary evaluation into the performance of Autopilot during a recent fatal crash that occurred in a Model S. This is the first known fatality in just over 130 million miles where Autopilot was activated. Among all vehicles in the US, there is a fatality every 94 million miles. Worldwide, there is a fatality approximately every 60 million miles. It is important to emphasize that the NHTSA action is simply a preliminary evaluation to determine whether the system worked according to expectations.

Following our standard practice, Tesla informed NHTSA about the incident immediately after it occurred. What we know is that the vehicle was on a divided highway with Autopilot engaged when a tractor trailer drove across the highway perpendicular to the Model S. Neither Autopilot nor the driver noticed the white side of the tractor trailer against a brightly lit sky, so the brake was not applied. The high ride height of the trailer combined with its positioning across the road and the extremely rare circumstances of the impact caused the Model S to pass under the trailer, with the bottom of the trailer impacting the windshield of the Model S. Had the Model S impacted the front or rear of the trailer, even at high speed, its advanced crash safety system would likely have prevented serious injury as it has in numerous other similar incidents.

Simple edit to one sentence:

We learned yesterday evening that NHTSA is opening a preliminary evaluation into the performance of Autopilot during a recent fatal crash that occurred in a Model S. This is the first known fatality in just over 130 million miles where Autopilot was activated. Among all vehicles in the US, there is a fatality every 94 million miles. Worldwide, there is a fatality approximately every 60 million miles.

The NHTSA action is simply a preliminary evaluation to determine whether the system worked according to expectations.

Following our standard practice, Tesla informed NHTSA about the incident immediately after it occurred. What we know is that the vehicle was on a divided highway with Autopilot engaged when a tractor trailer drove across the highway perpendicular to the Model S. Neither Autopilot nor the driver noticed the white side of the tractor trailer against a brightly lit sky, so the brake was not applied. The high ride height of the trailer combined with its positioning across the road and the extremely rare circumstances of the impact caused the Model S to pass under the trailer, with the bottom of the trailer impacting the windshield of the Model S. Had the Model S impacted the front or rear of the trailer, even at high speed, its advanced crash safety system would likely have prevented serious injury as it has in numerous other similar incidents.