It’s clear from this video that the Tesla doesn’t detect the boat at all, and doesn’t understand the turn signal.
It encroaches dangerously from far behind, a predictably dumb move as if asleep at the wheel.
Perhaps the most important detail here is the Tesla doesn’t hit the brakes until it crashes into a car clearly in front of it and then the boat.
Watching this video I hope very much that your own instinct to hit the brakes kicked in a long time before this Tesla’s brake lights turn on. The obvious failure to slow indicates to me yet another vehicular assault by the Tesla. Arrest the driver for driving under the influence.
Radar? What radar?
Tesla cut costs by downgrading to the least costly and least capable sensor technology, as demanded by the CEO over engineering safety objections.
Former Tesla employees say the decision to remove radar immediately caused problems. Complaints filed with regulators reveal that vehicles were allegedly “stopping for imaginary hazards, misinterpreting street signs, and failing to detect obstacles” including emergency vehicles.
The Ukrainian and Russian approaches to war could not be more opposite.
Learning and innovating, creating and maintaining, Ukrainians are showing off four colonial-era Maxim machine guns (made famous in WWI) turned into a quad anti-drone machine. Ukrainians are thinking hard, and working hard in measurable ways. It has signs of long-viewsustainable effeminacy.
Russia meanwhile is using its lazy oil money to buy automated throwaway machines operated by humans who have been told to never think. Toxic masculinity.
No wonder Russia has been failing nearly 100 times a day to attempt a basic assault, stalled and confused. You’d think, if you are allowed to think, that after 8 or 18 or 28 failures the Russians would change tactics, learn or adapt instead of suicide. Alas, pride and privilege blinds them into horrific levels of self-owns through basic short-sighted waste.
Underneath all this is the political analysis that Russia’s dictator became angry when Ukraine started talking about reducing foreign-run corruption. Was Ukraine corrupt? Yes, because Russia tried to make it so (like asking if Kenya was corrupted under British Colonialism).
Individuals given agency, working hard, in a domestic merit based system? That simple Ukrainian aspiration was such an affront to lazy oligarchs in Russia thirsty for endless exploitation… a war was started to erase Ukraine and block anti-corruption.
The invasion by Russia was expected by them to prove an infinite supply of thoughtless drones (human and machine) could sustain top-down corruption, in effect attempting to overwhelm then criminalize any independent and creative ideas of the Ukrainians.
We’re seeing clearly how the opposition plays out.
I’d also like to unwind how the old Maxim destruction automation script is getting flipped — it originally was unleashed by Britain to wipe out Africans who dared to assert independence from corrupt colonial oppression. Wave after wave of indigenous soldier charge was decimated by just a few occupying British holding down the trigger on a Maxim.
During the Matabele War of 1893-4, fifty British infantrymen with four Maxim guns held off 5,000 Matabele in a 90-minute engagement, killing 3,000 of their attackers… [In the] Battle of Omdurman on September 2, 1898. British forces faced a vastly larger force of Sudanese Mahdists, but the British had six Maxim guns. As the Mahdists jogged toward the British lines, the Maxim guns opened fire alongside the infantry. Hardly a single Mahdist got within a quarter of a mile of their enemies. 11,000 Sudanese died, almost all killed by the Maxim guns. The British and their Egyptian allies lost only 48 men. “It was not a battle,” one eye-witness wrote, “but an execution.”
Inverse to today’s news of Ukrainian volunteers stopping waves of invading Russians. But all those details will have to wait.
History. It’s fascinating, especially in terms of oppressors falling.
Old photos of the Soviet-era Maxim M1910, repurposed today by Ukraine: Quad-Maxim M1910, Moscow, Russia, 21 Jun 1942.
A Subaru making a left turn at approximately 8am was hit at high speed by a Tesla that plowed straight into it. Police charged the Tesla with assault, arrested the driver.
The Subaru driver — a 31-year-old male — was extricated by Fire-Rescue personnel and transported to the hospital with significant injuries. The Tesla driver—a 50-year-old male—did not report any injuries at the scene. The drivers were the only occupants of both vehicles. The Tesla driver, Dion Jordan of Erie, was booked into the Boulder County jail this morning on a single felony charge of vehicular assault-reckless driving.
It fits a pattern I’ve discussed before here many times, where Tesla’s “free speed extemist” marketing and poor engineering quality results in a particularly dangerous rise in crashes, especially intersections.
Related: Homicide charge for a Tesla driving at high speed through an intersection. No other factors were cited, confusing the prosecutors who are used to investigating high risk influences such as drugs or alcohol. Did the accused have impaired judgment? Yes, he was in a Tesla.
This latest case documents again how and why police are reporting Tesla has become a threat to national security… as I quoted recently:
“This is our third catastrophic crash with Teslas in just the last couple weeks,” Martin County Sheriff William Snyder said Saturday. “We’re seeing an overall pattern here in Martin County of more aggressive driving, greater speeds and just a general cavalier sense towards their fellow motorists’ safety.”
A systemic problem from these catastrophic Tesla engineering failures needs a systemic solution. Perhaps all the Tesla crashing at high speed into police and fire vehicles like a Kamikaze was the thing that really made this point? Police seeing a Tesla should probably start treating it like impaired judgment, swinging around an explosive missile about to assault someone.
Unsafe for public roads, sorry. If the dangerously diseased Tesla isn’t properly quarantined, away from society, its owner should be arrested.
Multiple tall buildings in downtown San Francisco didn’t handle Tuesday’s storms very well.
Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, whose district includes one of the storm-lashed structures, said he’s prepared to “move heaven and earth” to make sure that every tall building in San Francisco is comprehensively inspected by a qualified engineer immediately. […] “The only miracle yesterday was that nobody was injured,” Peskin said, referring to the shards of glass that rained from the reflective citadels in South of Market as the winds hit 78 mph. Anyone walking along Mission Street could have easily been impaled, he said. …Salesforce East skyscraper at 350 Mission St. bore the most severe scars, with windows popping or splintering on every floor from 11 to 30, Department of Building Inspection spokesperson Patrick Hannan said.
In related news, organized crime teams continue to break hundreds of car windows every day.
Despite dealing with break-ins, customers said they are willing to accept it as a risk that comes with living in San Francisco. “It’s easy to hate on SF, but I love it here,” Rich said.
Some streets are covered in broken glass, where locals refer to it as “urban snow“.
Three suspected thieves casually smashed car windows, one after another on Wood Street in West Oakland Tuesday morning. As many as 20 cars were hit, according to one neighbor. In San Francisco’s Cow Hollow neighborhood in the Marina District, neighbors say someone smashed the windows of at least 17 cars. It happened on Sunday night on two blocks along Filbert Street.
That’s organized crime. It reminds me of pirates in Somalia, and how Arab investors started organizing gun-toting thugs into tactical operations with profit objectives as if crime pays. Those thieves working a street in SF are on assignment, maybe paid a base salary with bonus for special finds. It’s been so bad there’s a real-time broken car glass tracker run by the San Francisco Chronicle.
Last 30 days of car break-ins for San Francisco. The site seems to show 1.5K – 2.5K car windows smashed every month. Source: San Francisco Chronicle
First of all, you have to assume with this rate of break-in, the city is being divided up with break-in teams allocated so they don’t overlap or compete. I can almost guarantee there are dead-drop spots to collect and then ship out neighborhood break-in hauls. Maybe there’s even one in a particular embassy.
I guess all I’m saying is that with the shift towards more extreme weather maybe it’s time to add broken glass from skyscrapers to such a tracker? That makes coordinated cleanup tracking easier at least.
Second, if the weather were nicer maybe there wouldn’t be a need for windows at all, like the awesome cable-car designs, but those days seem to be long gone. Kind of like the days of fighting organized crime by attacking its root. But seriously, if you have a car in SF you might as well leave the windows open and deal with a basic mess cleanup instead of replacing complicated unique glass.
