Is There a Right to Repair? Judiciary Committee Hearing
Date: Tue, 07/18/2023 – 10:00 AM
Location: 2141 Rayburn House Office Building
The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet will hold a hearing on Tuesday, July 18, 2023, at 10:00 a.m. EST. The hearing, “Is There a Right to Repair?,” will examine the current legal landscape of the right to repair and related intellectual property issues, including potential future avenues for policymaking. The hearing will also discuss laws and regulations at both the federal and state level and the implications for a range of industries from automotive to software to consumer electronics.
…representatives told the Unit school board the U.S. Department of Energy estimates only one in 10,000 solar arrays have a malfunction of the nature seen at Olympia. Halo’s staff told the school board they couldn’t speak to that particular system, they said the technology has improved despite there being no recalls issued for the defective connectors.
Henkes just shakes his head when it comes to the one in 10,000 figure being used to say solar panel fires are rare. He calls it voodoo that one in 10,000 is a low risk and would like to find out who at the Department of Energy is spreading that around. One in 10,000 would be 0.01%. Henkes says that’s arson.
Henkes points out that if we go to six sigma, an industry standard used to reduce defects, reduce errors, minimize variation, increase quality and increase efficiency, “We are looking at the target rate for industry is 0.0000034 percent.”
That’s a truly huge difference. And a 0.01% rate would be like 10 schools on fire when you think about 100,000 or more units (number of school buildings in the US).
Illinois school fire due to Tesla defects. Source: WGLT
Low speed, high speed. Forward, reverse. It doesn’t seem to make any difference. Tesla seem to keep crashing into poles, often killing occupants.
Delray Beach police are investigating a fatal crash that happened in the 100-block of SE 6th Avenue. The crash involved a Tesla Model Y that was reported by witnesses to be driving at a high rate of speed northbound on Federal Highway. The vehicle left the roadway and crashed into a light pole in front of a hotel. The driver died at the scene.
It’s become a running joke how any bent or broken EV sign pole is proof a Tesla has parked there.
Tesla owners often pick standard EV plugs (Combined Charging System) over the Tesla proprietary ones, and clearly have trouble seeing both signs. Tesla wraps their proprietary Tesla charging station signs with big orange cylindars to protect them, but not the blue EV-CCS1 poles as you can see here.
For all the big and loud talk about Tesla supposedly eliminating crashes, it is peculiar how we regularly are witness to the opposite. Teslas often crash where no other vehicles would or should.
The Navy Times reports a new hard diving suit is under development to better enable long and deep underwater operations.
“With the suit, we can drop the guy down to the bottom, and he can work for up to six hours, and then come right back up,” McMurtrie said. “He gets out of the suit. Next guy jumps in. Boom. He’s back down for another six hours. […] The DSEND system ”is, in essence, a one-person submarine, but form-fitted to the point where the person can operate like a diver,” Chapman told Navy Times.
It reminds me of what Ford said a few years ago, that the automobile is really an augmentation suit.
