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Clara Listensprechen

Elon Musk, the delusional murderer-by-proxy

♲ Chuck Darwin - 2024-03-13 18:58:44 GMT

How Do You Put a Tesla Model X in Gear?OVER THE WEEKEND, the Wall Street Journal published a long report on the accidental death of the shipping magnate #Angela #Chao, sister to former transportation secretary Elaine Chao and sister-in-law to soon-to-be former Senate Republican leader #Mitch #McConnell.

News of Angela Chao's death first appeared in shipping trade publications with no explanation, then was vaguely reported as an automobile accident;
McConnell, in announcing his plans to resign from his leadership post, said her dying had prompted him to think about the end of his own career.

What the Journal reported was that Chao had #drowned inside her #Tesla Model X after accidentally backing it into a pond on her Texas estate, on the short drive between the guesthouse and the main house.

According to the story, she called a friend in the guesthouse from inside the sinking car to ask for help:
While making a three-point turn, she had put the car in reverse instead of drive, she said.

It is a mistake she had made before with the Tesla gearshift.
The car had zipped backward, tipping over an embankment and into a pond.

By now, whenever anyone dies in a Tesla, the natural question to ask is whether or not the Tesla killed them, or helped kill them.

How do you put a car into reverse instead of drive?
The online manual for the Model X, has a diagram showing how you put the car in gear

It shows an interface on the Tesla's touchscreen.

It has no label for either "Drive" or "Reverse"; the blue arrows, judging by the diagrams in the rest of the manual, are not part of the display, but the manual's indication of how the driver is supposed to move their finger.
The text explains:

When you press the brake pedal when parked, the drive mode strip displays on one side of the touchscreen. Use the drive mode strip to shift Model X: swipe up for Drive, swipe down for Reverse or touch the P for Park or N for Neutral. The drive mode strip is always available on the touchscreen when you touch Controls.

Even by Tesla's ridiculous design standards, this is a shockingly bad control system.

There is no stable convention around whether swiping up means "go up" or "go down";
notoriously, Microsoft and Apple have completely opposite theories about which way makes sense.

And that dispute is only about manipulating text on your computer screen, not setting a two-and-a-half-ton vehicle into physical motion.

Tesla's choice of direction
—flicking the little car-glyph upward, as if you're pushing the car itself, rather than flicking it down, as if you're pulling the landscape so the car moves forward
—is not only the opposite of the way you advance along the road on a touchscreen in Google Maps, it's the opposite of how you drop a normal automatic-transmission car into Drive with a physical shifter.

The wrist and shoulder rotate down and back, and the car goes forward.

Presumably this had something to do with why Angela Chao had previously had trouble shifting the Tesla into the correct gear.

#Elon #Musk's design team, committed to his adolescent theories of futurism
—and to moving as many controls as possible from physical buttons, knobs, or levers to the much cheaper touchscreen, even in a car that starts at $79,900
—built a system that runs contrary to a driver's muscle memory of how to put a car in gear.

It's also theoretically possible that the Tesla put itself in gear.

The Model X includes a beta feature, which a driver would need to specifically activate, in which the car scans its surroundings and makes a guess on its own as to whether it should shift into Drive or Reverse:

When Auto Shift out of Park is enabled, Model X is designed to automatically select Drive or Reverse. The instrument panel displays the selected drive mode when the driver's door is closed and seat belt is buckled.

To override the selection, press the brake pedal and use the drive mode strip on touchscreen to shift into your desired drive mode (Drive, Reverse, Park; see Shift Using the Touchscreen).

Confirm the drive mode selection and follow the instructions on the instrument panel before you press the accelerator.

With your car rolling backwards out of control, simply turn your attention to the touchscreen
—because there is no physical button to feel for
—stab your finger at the letter P, hit it precisely, and hold it there.

What could be easier?

https://indignity.substack.com/p/swipe-down-to-die

Chuck Darwin (@cdarwin@c.im)

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lester_bangs@pod.mttv.it
virgil

#US-Republikaner blockieren #Ukraine-Hilfe : #Ukraine in Geiselhaft

Im #US-Senat blockieren die #Republikaner Hilfen für die Ukraine – sie fordern im Gegenzug innenpolitische Zugeständnisse. Es ist eine beschämende #Erpressung

#taz #pickert #FuckPutin #Russland #Israel #Taiwan #Mexiko #McConnell

https://taz.de/US-Republikaner-blockieren-Ukraine-Hilfe/!5974261/

"Für die nach 21 Monaten Krieg angeschlagene und müde Ukraine heißt das, womöglich genau jene künftige Verhandlungsposition zu verlieren, für die sie so viele Opfer gebracht hat. Die westliche Führungsmacht USA präsentiert sich als Irrenhaus voller Trolle. Es ist beschämend."

US-Republikaner blockieren Ukraine-Hilfe: Ukraine in Geiselhaft

Im US-Senat blockieren die Republikaner Hilfen für die Ukraine – sie fordern im Gegenzug innenpolitische Zugeständnisse. Es ist eine beschämende Erpressung.

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Sylvia J

Washington Says "Journalism Is Not A Crime" While Working To Criminalize Journalism

#CaitlinJohnstone

https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/washington-says-journalism-is-not

#Schumer and #McConnell both say "journalism is not a crime" in defense of #EvanGershkovich, yet both have enthusiastically supported the #persecution of #JulianAssange.

#audio #freepress #wikileaks #chuckschumar #mitchmcconnell #hypocrisy #journalismisnotacrime #dropthecharges #freeassange #weareallassange

Washington Says "Journalism Is Not A Crime" While Working To Criminalize Journalism

Listen to a reading of this article: After a certain point criticizing the hypocrisy and contradictions of the US-centralized empire starts to feel too easy, like shooting fish in a barrel. But hell let's do it anyway; the barrel's right here, and...

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HU Art Sound

BREAKING: President Biden just condemned the attack on Brazil's democracy. Hakeem Jeffries did the same earlier. Meanwhile, we've heard absolutely nothing from Kevin McCarthy & Mitch McConnell. Their silence speaks volumes about how little they care for democracy at home—& abroad

https://twitter.com/victorshi2020/status/1612228275899895809
#Brazil #Biden #Jeffries #McCarthy #McConnell

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John Hummel

Psychopath vs. psychopath. Enjoy the spectacle.

Previous Guy makes death threat against Moscow Mitch

#Trump #McConnell #TroubleInParadise

FTA: The big picture: McConnell's chances of becoming Senate majority leader again depend on Trump-supported candidates winning their midterm battles.

We can only hope that's true (and work to make it true) because getting McConnell out of the Senate is probably the best thing we can do to save democracy in the US.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/10/1/2126417/-Previous-Guy-makes-death-threat-against-Moscow-Mitch

Previous Guy makes death threat against Moscow Mitch

Trump claimed that Mitch McConnell has a death wish and appeared to try to incite violence against the Senate Minority Leader. Is McConnell approving all of these Trillions of Dollars worth of Democrat sponsored Bills, without even the slightest...

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johnehummel@diasp.org
John Hummel

It seems McConnell's calculus is turning away from Trump.

McConnell breaks out the pompoms as Jan. 6 Committee takes aim at Trump and his cronies

FTA: ... But why the sudden burst of cheerleading [for the Jan. 6 Commission] from a man who once panned an independent commission on the Capitol siege as a useless exercise unlikely to unearth any “new facts”? Quite simply, the Jan. 6 probe is giving McConnell a do-over on what he was incapable of accomplishing himself—neutralizing the Trump wing of the party. He had chances in 2021, and he either didn’t take them or fumbled the ball at the 1-yard line, particularly in the case of impeachment. [emphasis mine]

The prospect that the House probe might implicate and ensnare Trump and pro-Trump members of his own party is both enticing and existential for McConnell. Just imagine what a criminal prosecution of Trump could do for McConnell, not to mention someone like Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas being found complicit in the crime. That’s an entirely possible scenario, especially with a new book out from Trump aide Peter Nevarro claiming that Cruz played a key role in an election-stealing scheme Nevarro concocted with Trump henchman Steve Bannon.

... The Jan. 6 panel is now giving McConnell a glimmer of hope. And after fumbling away all his opportunities to dispense with Trump earlier this year, the least he can do is stoke a little interest and intrigue in what promises to be a fascinating year of revelations.

#McConnell #Trump #Politics #USA

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/29/2071708/-McConnell-breaks-out-the-pom-poms-as-Jan-6-committee-takes-aim-at-Trump-and-his-cronies?detail=emaildkre

McConnell breaks out the pompoms as Jan. 6 Committee takes aim at Trump and his cronies

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, deemed by some to be a master tactician, has missed every chance he had this year to help secure the downfall of Donald Trump and his increasingly ascendant wing of the party. Until now. After failing to...

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