On today’s brain-addled episode of Quick Charge, President Trump says electric car drivers have a disease, Full Self Driving won’t stop earning Tesla drivers tickets, and Waymo’s CEO spends over forty minutes explaining why Tesla’s tech won’t ever beat a human driver.
Despite being riddled with factual inaccuracies about fake gas bans, nonexistent EV mandates, and claims that Elon was against the very thing that he spent $250 million lobbying for, President Trump’s Red Rock rally speech absolutely nailed a very real truth about America’s electric vehicle chrging infrastructure: it’s pretty much invisible.
You can check out what that means, and why I think it matters for America’s mainstream dream of electric vehicle adoption by pressing play, then let us know what you think in the comments section at the bottom of the page.
Source Links
- Watch Tesla driver plea with police after FSD drove 64 mph in a 45 zone
- Waymo CEO explains why Tesla’s camera-only self-driving falls short
- Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov: The Demo Is Only 1% Of The Work
- Trump claims electric car drivers have a ‘disease’
- A 500 MWh Tesla Megapack battery just went live in Texas
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Top comment by MJE
Cars should be automatically regulated to travel at the legal speed limit and require active human intervention to exceed those limits. I believe cars in Europe already have such a feature ie they will automatically comply with the law unless instructed explicitly not to.
Having unwittingly got tickets driving around Europe ie in unfamiliar places where the speed limit is not always obvious ( eg driving down the Loire their are 80kph signs, but not 50kph signs just a sign with a village name) I welcome this technology.
If you explicitly decide to break the law you should be punished. Fines for breaking the law should be increased because the excuse you were unaware you were breaking the law does not exist.
If the law needs to change eg a limit needs to be higher, it should be changed.
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