“Tesla Twitter,” a group of Tesla fans who use Twitter extensively, is trying to “cancel” US President Joe Biden’s new appointee for a senior adviser role for safety at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).

The group has an issue with the new appointee’s criticism of Autopilot and Full Self-Driving Beta as well as her independent board seat on Veoneer, a Swedish driver-assist sensors and software solutions technology company that she also holds shares.

The new appointee is Missy Cummings (Twitter), a distinguished Duke University engineering and computer science professor who also was one of the Navy’s first female fighter pilots.

Tesla Twitter, which is how some refer to Tesla superfans who dominate discussion about the company on Twitter, has launched an effort to cancel her appointment.

The group feels that Tesla is threatened by Cummings’ appointment because they see her as “anti-Tesla.”.

Cummings’ role on the Board of Directors of Veoneer (a Swedish LIDAR company), her membership and association with “TSLAQ” (an online anti-Tesla short-selling & hate group), and public statements that suggest a bias toward and singling out of Tesla over technologies that have now become standard across the auto industry.

Cummings has made public statements that seem to reflect an emotional bias against Tesla, even insinuating that she would have to be “held back” from punching Tesla CEO Elon Musk if she met him.

Cummings needs to punch someone at Tesla, we just ask that the millions of Americans depending on vehicle automation not become collateral damage.

More than 5,000 people have signed the petition at the time of writing, and even Elon Musk commented, claiming that Cummings is “extremely biased against Tesla.”.

Because of her use of a blocklist used by some people who associate with “TSLAQ” on Twitter, which is a tag originally used when talking about shorting Tesla’s stock but has evolved to any Tesla naysayer, they believe her to be “anti-Tesla.”?

— Missy Cummings (@missy_cummings) March 26, 2020.

Tesla Twitter is framing the appointment itself as a Biden administration “attack” on Tesla following leaving Tesla out of an EV announcement at the White House and favoring union-made EVs in a reform of the federal EV incentive program.

Tesla Twitter getting on the “cancel” bandwagon isn’t too surprising, but I think the group is just looking for an enemy here.

Yes, Cummings has posted some questionable tweets, but if you want to find questionable tweets, you’ll find them whether they are from anti- or pro-Tesla, or Elon Musk himself, for that matter.

Cummings: “Why not just keep it simple: Missy vs Elon?” Dr.

Cummings sees when she checks the news each day ensuring that negative and false propaganda reaches her quickly while any positive comments from real Tesla Autopilot users are completely hidden

One of the best informed people about Tesla that I know, Electrek‘s own Jameson Dow, does not use Twitter, like millions of other people