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CA Tesla Kills Three in “Veered” Crash That Knocked Out Critical Infrastructure

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On May 2nd I posted that a Tesla veered into a West Covina utility pole and killed the occupant.

That case brought to mind what a “driverless” planned attack on critical infrastructure could look like, given how these remotely controlled robots are operating without regulation on public roads.

The thick black tire skid marks, a utility pole knocked to 45 degrees… apparently all that was foreshadowing.

Today from Pasadena (just 20 miles away) we have even more shocking and tragic news, with almost the exact same “veered” storyline into a pole, and three more dead.

The tragic incident unfolded at approximately 2:38 a.m. when a Tesla Model 3 veered off the road and slammed into an unoccupied building in the 2300 block of Foothill Boulevard, according to Lt. Anthony Russo of the Pasadena Police Department.

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Investigators planned to look into whether the Tesla’s autopilot feature was engaged at the time of the crash.

Russo said the driver lost control at a curve and hit a curb, sending the vehicle into the air. It then struck two city light poles, a utility pole, and a building and caused a widespread outage that left an estimated 500 homes and businesses in the dark.

This time Tesla took the infrastructure down like an unguided missile.

Surveillance footage from the area shows the moments that the Tesla hurtles down the street and runs through a red light shortly before a bright flash can be seen, which is presumably when the crash took place.

Police say that the driver, 22-years-old, was going at least double the 35 mile per hour speed limit, if not closer to 100 miles per hour.

Runs a red light. Double the posted speed. The Kamikaze inside this robotic munition was 22.

Ban Tesla on national security concerns? It seems obvious when you read the news every day.

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Russian Jets Increasingly Drop Bombs On Russia Instead of Ukraine

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A clumsy unguided Russian large bomb often is configured to blindly spread hundreds of small clusters of explosives, which will make a targeted area uninhabitable for generations of civilians and military alike.

The UK Ministry of Defence is trying to get the word out that Russians are increasingly being bombed by Russia.

Such incidents appear to be becoming increasingly common, with [Russian independent Telegram channel] Astra reporting that “at least 21 aerial bombs” had accidentally been dropped by Russian forces on Russian or Russian-occupied territory between March and April 2024.

As you can see below, in just one example from a single Russian bomb, thirty Russian homes with ten cars were destroyed.

To the outside observer these are huge problems with major consequences.

Training failures and fatigue are suggested, although the elephant in the room is an alternate perspective, how the dictator doesn’t care about bombing his own citizens, just like he throws away his troops’ lives. Training and rest don’t fix problems that are never allowed to be seen as problems.

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Tesla Cybertrucks Falling Apart Faster Than They Can Be Fixed

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We should have known that the guy who says he doesn’t run a car company, just to avoid being regulated as a car company, can’t actually run a car company.

A single Tesla Cybertruck bolt fastener worked loose, as should be expected, and here is what happened next.

Many of the Cybertrucks just simply die and can’t be started.

Oh, and about that disinformation campaign to say his car company shouldn’t be seen as a car company… suddenly he wants it to be seen as the only car company.

Don’t think of it as a car company, think of it as… the only car company.

Uh huh.

Definitely not more red flags here than a Chinese military parade.

A judge recently exposed the Tesla CEO for this brand of shallow hypocrisy and gaslighting, within context of X Corp’s clumsy strategy to undermine law and order.

The judge found that X Corp’s argument exposed a tension between the platform’s desire to control user data while also enjoying the safe harbor of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which allows X to avoid liability for third-party content. If X owned the data, it could perhaps argue it has exclusive rights to control the data, but then it wouldn’t have safe harbor.

“X Corp. wants it both ways: to keep its safe harbors yet exercise a copyright owner’s right to exclude, wresting fees from those who wish to extract and copy X users’ content,” Alsup wrote.

If X got its way, Alsup warned, “X Corp. would entrench its own private copyright system that rivals, even conflicts with, the actual copyright system enacted by Congress” and “yank into its private domain and hold for sale information open to all, exercising a copyright owner’s right to exclude where it has no such right.”

Replace government protection with a private system to enrich one man?

The X is a swastika.

Nazis always are like this. They are loud-mouthed “absolutists” yet amorphous and undefined. Their exaggerated opposition to others’ law and order — avoiding governance at every turn with whatever is best for them and only them, also known as antiwoke radical individualism — is how they aim to invoke dictatorship.

In the engineering world such awful anti-science junk theory manifests as designs that never achieve production quality.

Definitions with real baselines and standards of care about others’ needs aren’t ever allowed to exist independent of making supreme leader feel good.

Amon Goeth managed engineering just like Elon Musk does. And that’s not all they have in common.
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Porsche Stock Exhaust Cheat Repeatedly Fails Basic Test of Noise Pollution Laws

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Porsche owners have poured toxins into the air for decades, with little to no liability to those harmed.

Now a groundbreaking enforcement of pollution laws seems to be honing in on noise, rather than the other forms of pollution.

Fitted with sensitive microphones, the $35,000 cameras detect and capture everything from loud exhausts and backfires to honking and blasting music. Eighty-five decibels is the threshold for receiving a fine, which starts at $800 for a first offense and rises to $2,500 for repeat offenders. For reference, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention places the average environmental noise level of city traffic inside a car at 85 decibels, indicating that City officials are targeting those who go above and beyond a normative sound level.

…[a Porsche driver thus caught making noise] was initially puzzled by the violation. Sure, he admits to hitting 35 mph in a 25 mph zone, but he wasn’t speeding excessively or wringing out the rear-mounted engine, either.

What? He thought 35 in a 25 wasn’t excessive?

Where do these people learn math? Driving 10 mph over in a 25 mph urban area is the definition of excessive.

In urban areas, driving merely 3 km/h (2 mph) or faster above the posted or implied speed limit is considered a punishable infraction…

No wonder he was puzzled why his excessive noise making was ruled excessive. This guy doesn’t care about what’s at stake when he speeds and pollutes excessively, begging laws to be enforced to protect society from such criminal acts.

And then, perhaps to nobody’s surprise, this “belief-based” anti-science guy aggressively tried in court over and over again to prove Porsche designed noise pollution as “stock” just so owners like him could cheat and get away with it.

Instead his protests have ended up proving the opposite, Porsche is failing tests every time in court for good, albeit not broad enough, safety reasons.

Specifically, research shows that prolonged sleep disruption, hearing loss, hypertension, and heart disease are all linked to consistent noise pollution. Additionally, the impacts of noise are specifically detrimental to children, yielding decreased memory, struggling reading skills, and lower test scores when consistently exposed to high levels of noise. With noise monitored by New York City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene as well as 311 noise complaint data, the top sonic offenders in NYC are unsurprisingly traffic…

Fun fact?

Noise pollution monitoring is far safer politically to enforce than other pollution forms because… the biggest polluters (e.g. utilities like gas companies) aggressively shut down any attempts to measure their crimes.

It’s a wonder VW was caught cheating on American air pollution laws, while Exxon, Tesla, GM and Ford were not, for example. Tesla in particular lit up horribly toxic diesel pollution centers on purpose to troll regulators after VW had been caught, and I’ll bet you never even heard about it.

So this story is really about German car companies having little to no American political clout to defeat public interest safety laws that keep cities safe from known dangers.

It’s not that if he drove a Ford he would have been granted a loophole to harm, it’s that he isn’t getting any support from Porsche because they know how badly this fight to do harm ends for them.

Remember 10 years ago how Germany tried to weigh in on this noise issue internationally?

Future Porsche sports cars could get away with being almost four times noisier than regular cars while high performance versions of the BMW 3 series, Audi A4 and Mini Cooper could become almost twice as loud under German plans for weak international limits on vehicle noise. […] Transport noise is linked to 50,000 fatal heart attacks every year and 200,000 cases of cardio-vascular disease in the EU. […] At full throttle, sports cars could get away emitting over 100 decibels, equivalent to a pneumatic drill.

Well then, German car companies seem to have been headed into their infamous Diesel-Gate fiasco believing at that time they could get away with anything — that all forms of intentional pollution would be good for their brand.

Indeed, noise-polluting Porsche cheats read almost exactly like the diesel-polluting VW cheat designs.

Police chief Dieter Schäfer snitched to the authorities at the Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt (KBA), the agency responsible for certifying that vehicles comply with regulations, about the noise made by cars with sport exhaust modes. Referring to exhaust flaps, which keep performance cars quiet and in compliance with noise regulations at moderate loads but open up when drivers step on the throttle or select a performance driving mode, the police chief said, “We can’t have something certified that makes a large amount of noise in real life.”

Ah, how times have changed. Today it seems clear that American cities would be well within reason to continue to chase Porsche execs under the famous VW precedent, regarding a brand willfully attempting to violate pollution regulation.

Let’s hope this guy exposing the willful fraud of Porsche cheat-to-harm culture is going to bring them to bear in ways that will save thousands of lives or more.