#cars
Trump team wants to scrap car-crash reporting rule that Tesla opposes
The Trump transition team wants the incoming administration to drop a car-crash reporting requirement opposed by Elon #Musk’s #Tesla according to a document seen by Reuters, a move that could cripple the government’s ability to investigate and regulate the safety of vehicles with #automated-#driving systems.
Musk, the world's richest person, spent more than a quarter of a billion dollars helping #Trump get elected president in November. Removing the crash-disclosure provision would particularly benefit Tesla, which has reported most of the crashes – more than 1,500 – to federal safety regulators under the program.
#bribes #corruption #dictator #authoritarian #cars #automation #safety #crashes
Mairie du 5e Arrondisement
(5th Arrondissement City Hall)
Paris
Photo of the Day
from my daily photo blog
#fourwheelfriday #cars #photography
#Architecture #Photography #Paris
Countries smaller than the 2 billion American parking spaces put together.
source: reddit
#usa #cars #map #information #parking #carculture
Carspiracy - You’ll Never See The World The Same Way Again
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-_4GZnGl55c
The title is a bit clickbaity, but it's a really good explanation of why discussion on how bad car culture is for all of us is so difficult.
Separately, unrelated, I don't watch a lot of YouTube videos due to ads. I wonder if the advertisers, interrupting midsentense every so and so minutes (twice during this video) see you when you show them the middle finger? I really hope so.
Here is an update on the attempts to car-proof our new Shopper Drug Mart under #construction in #Ottawa. The posts have now all been decoratively finished with these nice plastic covers. That just hides the fact that they are steel posts embedded in concrete and also filled with concrete and designed to keep idiots who can't drive from hitting the plate glass windows.
and here is an interesting development that is not at all a mystery. These photos show a new Shoppers Drug Mart location being prepared for opening in a local mall in #Ottawa. SDM is a national drug store chain here and they have an actual urban planing department (I met some of their urban planners at a meeting a few years back - very interesting people!) So this new drug store just had this long row of concrete-filled steel posts installed along the whole length of the storefront, but this is not to thwart terrorists or anything so nefarious. We had another SDM in the area that some old guy drove his car right though the plate glass window of, almost killing several staff and other customers. He said he couldn't find the brakes... So these posts seem to be a new mandatory corporate policy, as a result of the simple fact that #humans cannot be trusted to not hit the store with their #cars.
