The Tesla situation is like watching something out of a film about the fall of communism.

Parking lots full of Tesla vehicles are becoming impossible to ignore as the electric automaker seemingly can’t sell enough cars and trucks to match its rate of production. According to its own figures, the electric automaker produced 46,561 more vehicles than it delivered to customers during the first quarter of 2024. Where are all these cars going? Parking lots at its factories, malls and airports.

Remember, for example, how the Trabant was such a “hot” car claiming decades of demand until suddenly in 1989 (fall of the wall) centrally planned low-quality production was dumped into huge parking lots full of unallocated inventory?

It was like overnight Trabant demand went from a five year waiting list to… we gotta get away from car communism… to nobody wants one.

Tesla now has similar problems related to its centralized plans dispensing angry hate towards the dealers who serve local markets. It’s basically attempting to pretend it doesn’t need local dealers while renting huge parking lots to hold unsold inventory… like local dealers.

The difference versus other car brands that sell inventory through distribution and many communities, instead of depending entirely on fealty to one man, is resilience. Central planning of dictators tends to be full of such fraud that it abruptly falls, like the wall.

When dear leader no longer can fraudulently allocate inventory and hide the lies, it’s over. One signal has been that Tesla can’t seem to keep a lawyer in the job of overseeing the centralized lies.

Well known risk benefits of distributed systems make Tesla’s childish attempts to run an extreme centralization experiment look like unnecessarily high risk, especially now as the Elon Musk brand looks in danger of sudden collapse.

To put it simply, Tesla new model plans likely are cancelled due to capital shortages. Staff are being fired week after week, decimating entire departments and crushing morale, causing shortages that drive up cost of operations. Quality control was skipped to dump Cybertrucks on unwitting customers, which now pile up service debt. Price/rates of all models dropped, leaving bare minimum margins as global inventory piles up in parking lots; factories burn cash pumping out cars to cost money sitting in a rented lot.

And again, Tesla can’t seem to keep a lawyer in the job of overseeing the centralized lies.

It’s a death spiral, which is why Tesla just went to China for an emergency loan (selling customer data).

Where is Gorbachev when you need him?

How it started:

How it’s going:

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.

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.

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.