There were no injuries, but [because he rode a bicycle instead of attacking from a car] he was charged with multiple felonies, and eventually pleaded guilty to assault with a deadly weapon, and vandalism.
Of course police easily could find this criminal, as the car is constantly being monitored in great detail by Tesla. Insurance algorithms may already have identified him.
He stands out as Elon Musk’s Twitter rage army… on wheels and in person.
Source: NBC Los Angeles
The pre-meditation is evidenced by measures taken to hide the license plate… and maybe that giant black pipe used in a very specific way.
Some may recall the license plate was invented specifically because car drivers from the beginning of cars were cruelly causing crashes and using their powerful engines to run away without being recognized.
Tesla seems to be not only trying to reinvent the wheel, it’s recreating the worst possible mistakes in history… by design.
All the drivers have filed reports with law enforcement. The incidents have happened across Southern California, so different agencies are investigating.
His “uniform” is strangely consistent, as well as his premeditated and repeated use of that same Tesla and pipe.
It appears he targets non-white drivers, am I right? More specifically he may be targeting women or people he has profiled as unlikely to run him over, despite swinging a pipe.
For example in one video outside a shed in Atwater he yells “you better go outside Cali where you came from” and you can hear the clear retort “You don’t even know where I’m from. I’m born and raised in LA”.
Police easily could have pulled Atwater storage shed records, in that case of hate alone. He obviously had a reason to park there. So what is the reason police let the obvious criminal Tesla roam so freely?
Update January 31:he is arrested and has targeted women.
Elon Musk launched the Tesla concept for chargers in 2012 as solar powered.
..the CEO announced that the company was developing a network of solar-powered, high-speed charging terminals to be installed at roadside restaurants, rest stops, and shopping centers…
Have you seen a solar-powered Tesla charger? Probably not. And now I’ll explain why “solar factory” means nothing of the sort, instead being a giant coverup for the fraud of FSD.
What Tesla did do, instead of making that station open as it had told the public it was—and, by the way, they told the California Air Resources Board, which was subsidizing it quite heavily—was ship in some extra superchargers and hook them up to diesel generators. Instead of seeing this cutting edge future battery swap technology, I saw Tesla—literally the long tail pipe problem, as it’s called—become very, very short, as these diesel generators puffed out emissions and recharged these Teslas. Then when I went to Tesla and told them what I found, the way they handled it was extremely jarring to me. And I realized how cynical this company could be. And I just had this instinct that that kind of cynicism is never an isolated thing. There’s never just one cockroach like this.
Cockroaches hate the sun.
Elon Musk lied to take government money and repurpose it illegally. He promised the sun would be the source of energy when any Tesla needed to recharge its batteries — even announcing it as “free energy forever”.
He started running the dirtiest diesel engines possible while marketing it as “clean energy” for Tesla car chargers. Cynical doesn’t even begin to describe this level of willful harm and deceit, especially as VW executives went to jail for far less.
Despite having a view of the fake battery swap terminal and fake solar panels, Tesla gave car owners no choice but connect to giant dirty diesel generators as they listened to news about VW “cheating”.
Like all of his “promises”, Elon Musk had made a totally empty one meant to excite and confuse everyone while he did knowingly wrong/illegal things and walked away with ill-gotten money.
In 2017, CEO Elon Musk said that Tesla plans to add solar and batteries to all Supercharger stations and eventually disconnect most of them from the grid. This has yet to happen. …for the most part, its charging stations are powered by the grid and from whatever source of electricity owned by the local utilities.
Why no solar charging sites? A whole decade has passed now since fraudulently being announced as already developing. Instead diesel-powered trucks have been delivering giant batteries to Tesla charging sites, and reportedly bursting into environmental disasters of highly toxic fires.
Safe and clean renewable energy generation for charging hasn’t materialized as predicted by Tesla, even though they soaked up government handouts tailored to their false promises of solar.
Some speculate all of it has just been a game to juice investors, redirecting funds with insider/family corruption.
SolarCity had never been profitable. In 2015 alone, it lost $710 million. The losses prompted Elon Musk, its chairman, to push for Tesla, which he also headed, to purchase SolarCity, which was managed by his cousins, Lyndon and Peter Rive. At the time of the merger, SolarCity was $3.4 billion in debt. That purchase went through in late 2016, despite misgivings by some Tesla board members, court records show. To win them over, Musk unveiled plans for a revolutionary product, a roof composed entirely of solar panels.
“Plans”. We all know what “plans” mean to Elon Musk, right?
Fantasy.
No solar tiles covering roofs, just like no solar charging stations.
The plans were total hot air, not based in any reality.
Musk, in a deposition he gave during the lawsuit against him, conceded the Solar Roof was a “nascent product.” […] Stout, the current Tesla employee whose job involved building and maintaining manufacturing lines, said the plant struggled to produce the Solar Roof. “It was a bad design all around,” he said of the initial version of the Solar Roof. “It was a poor product design, and then the manufacturing design was not sufficient to bring it to scale.” […] “Tesla just stopped using the solar cells that were being made in their own building because they couldn’t figure it out.”
The reporting goes on to say Tesla then had to stop importing Chinese panels it had hoped to pass off as its own, after it was disclosed that slave labor was involved.
Now another moral failure has surfaced as the dysfunctional Tesla solar factory in NY is being exposed more.
About 500 jobs — nearly one-third of the current workforce of 1,636 — are those entry-level desk positions, in which workers label images from the company’s self-driving vehicle software — merge signs, turning lanes, pedestrians — in an attempt to train the autonomous driving algorithms. The rest of the auto-related jobs involve the assembly of charging equipment for Tesla cars.
That software has been implicated in at least 17 fatalities. The charging equipment has a reputation for fires. None of it should be unregulated, or hidden in a solar factory.
See what Elon Musk meant when he said his cars would be relying entirely on “learning” cameras?
Learning? This isn’t what people think they are buying from Tesla.
Human classifiers aren’t futuristic.
Entry-level temp desk workers in Buffalo secretly trying to read and label video… sounds highly problematic and unsafe.
The COVID pandemic has greatly raised awareness of air quality.
Caught now in the cross hairs of home safety are gas stoves.
A federal agency is reportedly considering a ban on gas stoves on the heels of rising concern about harmful indoor air pollutants emitted by the appliances.
It makes sense to phase them out like coal or wood burning stoves, if not faster because air quality science is so much more accurate now.
That being said, coal and wood are regulated by controlling fuel supply more than usage. So the right move is to ban gas being supplied to homes, which we’ve been seeing already.
In a unanimous vote on Tuesday night, Berkeley became the first city in the U.S. to ban natural gas connections in new buildings. Beginning in 2020, all new buildings in Berkeley, including commercial and residential construction, will be all-electric…
A ban on stoves seems like very wishful/provocative reporting, at the wrong end of the stick.
Tesla has made itself about as exciting to car buyers as a gutted Studebaker on blocks.
“What’s a Studebaker”, kids will ask.
“Exactly”, their parents will say.
Studebaker electric maybe was killed by Ford. She drove a competitor brand “Detroit Electric” while her husband Henry conspired with Edison to poison the market and get EVs off the road.
German authorities state that the vehicle’s structure is too rigid and therefore does not provide occupants with the mandatory safety. Furthermore, the rigid body panels are a nightmare when it comes to pedestrian protection, as the front bumper and bonnet of a car needs to deform in order to absorb the forces in the event of an accident. …enormous forces act on the occupants. Airbags no longer help.” As a result, “it will not be possible to sell it as a mass-production vehicle in Germany based on type approval.”
People inside and outside the Truck will die unnecessarily.
Tesla literally based its “best” attempt on ideas so stale and old, so unsafe by modern standards, they can’t be sold.
And on top of their absence of innovation, thinly clothed to look tough and “new” (both exposed as lies in their premature pitches), delivery has been far behind their own schedule.
Tesla is fraud. They promised a “survival” truck that would be delivered no later than 2021. It’s unsafe and years behind. Without fraud this regressive car company would not even exist.
Late and unsafe.
It reminds me when Tesla had announced a delay to release their batteries, which soon after started bursting into flame. Since then it’s been putting whole neighborhoods at risk, draining emergency response time and budgets.
The Tesla truck at this point is basically little more than an overdue project out of someone’s high school chop shop, in an attempt to copy Dodge engineers, that isn’t street legal and never will be.
Who would pay for such amateurish nonsense when they could buy any production EV truck delivering far superior engineering at far less cost?
Ford, an unavoidale example, just won NA Truck of the Year award for its EV. The “Lightning” was in a final competition round against the Chevrolet Silverado ZR2 and a Lordstown Motors Endurance.
North American Truck of the Year is the latest award in the F-150 Lightning trophy case. Others include, Motor Trend Truck of the Year, The Car Connection Best Car to Buy, Edmunds Top Rated, Detroit Free Press Truck of the Year, Green Car Reports Best Car to Buy, TIME Top 200 Invention of 2022, 2023 Kelley Blue Book Best Buy Award, 2022 Altair Enlighten Award, Sobre Ruedas 2022 Awards, Wards 10 Best & Engines & Propulsion Systems, Internet Brands Best Car to Buy, Victory & Reseda Vehicle of the Year, TopGear.com 2022 American Car of the Year, Autoblog Technology of the Year 2022, Motor1 Star Awards, CarBuzz Save the Planet award and multiple Sabre awards.
I’ve hated Ford my whole life and still do, but have to admit that regulations have really turned that company around.
All those awards should go to the people who created the higher standards for Ford to achieve.
Kind of like how strict antifa-planned occupation of Germany by the U.S. Army converted that technologically backwards country into a leader in car manufacturing.
…Henry Ford admitted that the Dodges made the entire Ford except the body, wheels and tires and that they also risked much financially while Ford himself invested no money or property…
American autoworkers and their children in 1941 protest Ford’s close relationship with Hitler. Source: Wayne State
I’m just saying if the American military had occupied Detroit more like they did Berlin and Tokyo… Ford would have been regulated into innovation and had a modern EV on the road in 1947 more like Nissan.
The venerable Japanese “Ni-hon San-gyo” (NiSan) truck maker was restarted to produce EV and by 1960 had won the Deming Prize for superior car engineering (Deming helped lead U.S. Army statistics, including the occupation by Supreme Command of Allied Powers). Ford quality by comparison through those same years… NOT good and very late, yet still it’s at least several decades ahead of the regressive death trap Tesla.
In related news, the amazingly innovative Korean Kia EV6 won the award for SUV against a Korean Genesis GV60 and despite the awesome knobs of the hot American Cadillac Lyriq EV.
See what car experts are saying?
At this point people who really know cars regard the tone-deaf Tesla a stale and burned slice of toast — a total non-contender among fresh electrics.
I took four people [including the L.A. Times auto editor] for a [Studebaker] ride at speeds from 166.6 to 172.5 mph, and in each instance I let go of the steering wheel for several thousand feet…
What is it with these people pulling an Elon Musk and encouraging drivers to take their hands off the wheel? And now the brand is dead. Idiots.
Even the notoriously “3rd place” Dodge truck line is far better engineering already in every way than any Tesla, and that should say it all.
… customers can boost the power output of their [Dodge SRT Banshee powertrain package] to 400 kW (535 hp) with an eStage 2 “Crystal,” while the 440 kW car can produce 500 kW (670 hp) with an eStage 2 tune. It’s not yet clear what the 800-volt powertrain will deliver straight from the factory or what the tunes may boost, but that’s some considerable power…
But an anti-hacker “Crystal” feature…? Um. Is Dodge going to brand their next EV the Fairy or Unicorn? “Crystal inside” just doesn’t have the ring of “hemispherical (HEMI) FirePower”. Was “cylindrical” (CYLI — pronounced “silly”) unavailable for Dodge to brand its battery-fed engines? Imagine having a CYLI funny car.
Dodge marketing (and right-to-repair resistance) is as dumb as ever (3rd place, did I mention?) but you have to respect their awesome safely engineered muscle, especially in trucks.
Dodge squeezed a 707hp supercharged 6.2-liter V-8 (hellcat) into the Ram and called it…a loser Rebel. If they had made it electric they would have achieved even better performance, beat Ford to EV production awards, and could have called it the Yank.
Bottom line: German vehicle safety experts (thanks to U.S. Army occupation) wisely have ruled nobody should buy a Tesla. Unfortunately the U.S. Army was prevented from doing in America what it achieved abroad.
And that’s why so many Americans today may be expected to die in avoidable Tesla tragedies, as if 1930s Tatra T87 “owner suicide” taught some Americans nothing.
A Nazi German high-ranking officer prepares the “frunk” in his Tatra T87 before he commits suicide with it, seemingly an inspiration to the regressive Tesla truck designers.
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