Everyone soon will be pointing and laughing at Tesla, as the worst car company in history.

The problem is a faulty drive unit inverter, which stranded a Cybertruck at the end of July. Tesla says it started investigating the problem a week later and by late October arrived at the conclusion that it had made a bad batch of inverters that it used in production vehicles from November 6, 2023, until July 30, 2024. After a total of five failures and warranty claims that the company says “may be related to the condition,” Tesla issued a recall.

This is long overdue. Complaints about the drive unit are well known. Note that Tesla waited from July until now to announce the problem, yet they obviously stopped using “bad batch” drive units after July 30th. Why the inefficiency?

There has been a rising toll of pedestrians killed by Tesla since the fraudulently named “autopilot” and “full self driving” marketing campaigns started. The first Tesla pedestrian death by algorithm was April 2018, and in six years not much has changed, as today’s tragic news story makes plain to see.

A pedestrian was struck and killed on Highway 138 on Tuesday evening at approximately 5:36 PM on November 12, 2024. The incident occurred west of the I-15 freeway, near Dusty Lane.

Emergency personnel responded to the scene and found a 2024 Tesla pulled over on the right-hand shoulder of the highway, alongside an individual lying on the roadway.

A 2024 Tesla. Brand new. Latest software and hardware. Kills pedestrians.

Once again the severity of damage shows the Tesla impacted the pedestrian at full speed, acting as if completely blind… because Tesla cars are in fact unable to see.

It’s pretty clear Tesla has serious control issues. Here’s a strange case where the car crashed up and onto parked ones, mounting them like the notorious sudden acceleration bug hasn’t been fixed.

Tonight, NSW Police said the Tesla driver – a 48-year-old woman – was unhurt. Police inquired into the circumstances of the crash but didn’t take any action.

Nothing to see here, just an unexploded chemical bomb. Don’t worry, police didn’t take any action so next time it will probably be worse.

Putin continues to grind his own forces down, dug into hopeless trenches and holes, weakening Russian national security by the day.

Russian troops recently suffered their worst month for casualties since the country’s war with Ukraine began almost three years ago, the head of Britain’s armed forces said on Sunday.

At this rate perhaps the North Korean detachment of 12,000 would be eliminated in just one week.

North Korean soldiers ‘gun down Russian comrades’ in new frontline humiliation for Putin

Maybe even faster.

The rising war tragedy toll for Russia is now upwards of 700,000.

British defense intelligence estimates Russia has likely suffered more than 696,000 losses since the start of the full-scale invasion, a figure in line with Ukraine’s current total figure of 707,540 reported on Nov. 9.

Russia also lost nearly 20 armored fighting vehicles in just one day of October, bringing the total loss of these machines reported to 18,450.

Never forget that Russia’s initial 2022 invasion plan appeared based on a swift 3-day capture of Kyiv and regime change, drawing from their 2014 Crimea experience. Instead, they’re mired in what’s becoming a grinding positional war of attrition more reminiscent of WWI trenches than modern maneuver warfare.

Some historical context is perhaps needed:

• The Soviet-Afghan War lasted 9 years and saw ~15,000 Soviet deaths before withdrawal
• The Chechen Wars cost Russia roughly 11,000 troops over 10 years
• WWI trench warfare lasted 4 years with massive casualties

And on those points, here’s how
Russia is so much worse off in their current quagmire:

1. Suffering casualties at far higher rate than those previous conflicts
2. Unlike Afghanistan, this is depleting their core military strength on their own border
3. Lost more equipment in 2 years than the USSR lost in 10 years in Afghanistan
4. Sanctions and brain drain create compounding long-term weaknesses

Now the question becomes who can predict the key sustainability factors:

• Military: Throwing trained personnel into a meat grinder faster than they can replace them
• Industrial: Despite mobilizing entire citizen defense industry, can’t match equipment losses
• Economic: Adapted to sanctions, yet tech and industrial base rapidly degrading
• Political: Putin has locked himself away with a position where he can’t declare victory or admit defeat

This sustainability crisis also begs a question of how Elon Musk next intends to help Russia, and if the Logan Act will be enforced.