I’ve said it for years and I’ll say it again, electric vehicle charging should primarily be done with sockets. Make the owner of a car bring a cable. It’s basic electricity infrastructure design, and sockets are 100 years old, as old as electric cars.
Reports like this AP hyperventilation one completely miss the point, that we don’t need giant cables dangling around in public spaces to be damaged or stolen.
Two men, one with a light strapped to his head, got out. A security camera recorded them pulling out bolt cutters. One man snipped several charging cables; the other loaded them into the truck. In under 2½ minutes, they were gone.
Replace the cable with a socket. People bring their own cable.
Problem solved.
How many years of cables being stolen, oooh scary, do Americans have to read about before charging station journalism just gets a basic clue?
Mennekes makes top quality charging points and designed them with sockets, which is thus how most of the world uses them.
For reference, cable theft is an extremely well known problem, which begs the obvious question who in America was allowed to design charging stations with vulnerable cables dangling all over the place?
The estimated loss due to cable theft in the United States is between $1.5 billion and $2 billion per year. This includes the cost of replacing stolen cables, the cost of lost productivity, and the cost of damage to property.
Tesla bothered to invent their own plug, to push the country to adapt to their charging station design, but ignored the actual problems that would destroy it all? The sheer stupidity of Tesla engineering management never ceases to amaze me.
To make an even finer point. Tesla literally took the Mennekes products, switched them to permanent cables that could be stolen or damaged, and slapped a Tesla logo on top when deploying centralized stations ripe for crime. The American electric vehicle market would be far better off without any Tesla.
This might seem like a simple case of a stolen car being recovered, but think more carefully about the implications.
A man yelling at people out the window of a parked Tesla was arrested in Arroyo Grande on Tuesday after police determined the vehicle had been stolen from an out-of-area dealership.
The dealer (arguably the owner, yet different) sent an unlock code so a man could not protect himself inside a Tesla.
Obviously his crime was to steal a Tesla, but there are many notable implications of this dealer remotely removing a car’s locks for Police to enter.
Perhaps one of the less obvious points here is that Tesla claims to not use dealers and only sell direct to consumers. So technically Police were working directly with a manufacturer to use a backdoor, which in this case was in the narrow interest of that car maker.
Another point is that the man knew just how weak Tesla security is, since he drunkenly stole the car himself, yet he also was too drunk to realize… how weak Tesla security is.
Tesla had marketed the remote door open feature as a solution for their door handles failing to work, leaving drivers trapped inside when they were too drunk to operate the car safely and their Autopilot software drove them into a tree or a parked firetruck.
Quick control to unlatch Model 3 or Model Y driver door, helpful if door handle is frozen
Yeah, I meant “frozen”. In other words an “Unlatch Door” feature from an app means the door is being remotely electronically unlatched to pop open, avoiding use of the handle at all.
Tesla Unlatch Door button on the app, which of course illustrates the wrong door opening, because Tesla.
A dear friend killed himself. A dear friend’s grandfather killed himself.
These are the common stories of America now where guns have proliferated inversely to the rapid decline in mental health care programs.
A new Axios report sheds light into incredibly high likelihood of suicides where there is a gun.
Gun suicides consistently outstrip gun homicides in the U.S., despite drawing less attention than other forms of gun violence.
Why it matters: Suicide rates have increased in the U.S. over the past few decades and become a leading cause of death among young and middle-aged Americans. […]
Between the lines: While suicidal impulses can be brief, the easy availability of guns can make them harder to survive, per the Times.
This report reflects another dangerous American trend, teenagers killing themselves and their friends with a Tesla. The availability of Tesla makes public streets harder to survive.
It’s become painfully obvious the Boring company never had any commercial viability or purpose, and is only for military use. Pushing heavy vehicles as an invasion force is what it will do… heavy vehicles filled with robot soldiers.
The Las Vegas tunnel is little more than an examination of long-known Korean methods and plans for invasion. Boring company literally bought a used tunnel boring machine and made no modifications, had no new ideas, and didn’t even really understand the thing. Presumably Elon Musk recently visited Gaza to study how people build tunnels better, which now are being tested in Texas.
A multi-million-dollar tunnel to get the cars out of the EOL? Why not just design the EOL to end out of the factory into the staging area?
Also, based on the timing of the project, it sounds like the tunnel came first, or at least the idea to have a tunnel at Gigafactory Texas came first, before they knew what it would be used for.
An invasion. The tunnel is being tested for invasion using armored autonomous vehicles carrying militant groups and munitions.
Worse than the actual intention to push armored vehicles underground, perhaps, is all the associated fraud to cover it up. Boring was always coupled with disinformation propaganda to undermine actual public good projects. So it not only was useless to the public, it killed useful transit projects while pumping deadly Tesla car sales. Likewise the Texas tunnel is probably wrapped in fraud, illegally transferring money to Tesla.
Now SpaceX is being exposed for similar reasons.
They know Starship is a failure, nowhere near capable of human travel… but taking government handouts is so sweet they pump empty hype.
A massive failure throwing away billions in taxpayer money, having zero chance of serving any public good, is really a big dumb war machine.
Starship is not capable of reaching Mars” but is “to sway the balance of nuclear war and allow the U.S. to construct a space-based missile defense system.”
No public agency could fail repeatedly and catastrophically like this. Did you notice 100s of SpaceX orbiting satellites are in process of being destroyed intentionally due to design failures, showering dangerous debris that can kill people? NASA would never… because accountable.
For the third time in 11 months, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is investigating a flight of SpaceX’s Starship…
…RTX Corporation, formerly Raytheon, has increased prices for its Stinger missiles sevenfold since 1991, leaving the U.S. paying more than $400,000 to replace each missile…
Once you accept that “Mars” is not a planet, but a white supremacist term for a racist militant enclave here on earth (ala Aryan Nations Idaho) all the public funding being misredirected by Elon Musk into robots and rockets make far more sense.
Elon Musk’s companies, funded through ill-gotten wealth from market manipulations, are a 1940s Apartheid fever dream to use technology to enforce a racist ethnostate.
After all, Elon Musk’s racist politician grandfather fled Canada to become an architect of Apartheid in South Africa, after he was arrested for trying to replace democracy with a sci-fi cult called “technocracy”.
Source: The Leader-Post, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, Tue, 8 Oct 1940, Page 16
When their Apartheid empire was defeated the family dispatched Elon Musk back to Canada to push fascism again. He basically fled the 1988 fall of Apartheid South Africa like the fall of Nazi Germany, an operation paperclip wannabe… to even become an illegal immigrant in America.
And that’s why now he is driving the military industrial congressional complex into a white supremacist dream of a “new” form of fascism. Welcome to the “Mars Technocracy” fascist enclave. The “friendly” centrally planned and controlled robotic soldier will now tell you how you must “vote” or else. Disregard all laws and reason and submit to Elon’s will. It’s for “survival”.
