I’ve driven a Tesla. The interior was shockingly shitty and the stupid dash tablet was as gross as sex with a 30-year-old woman.

However, they are not somehow more difficult to control. If anything, the fact that it just stops when you take your foot off the pedal makes it easier to control.

The reason these cars are hitting more people is that only retards buy electric cars. There is no reason you would buy an electric car other than because you are retarded. So of course they’re going to smash people up a lot more often.

The Guardian:

Hybrid and electric cars are more likely to strike pedestrians than petrol or diesel vehicles, particularly in towns and cities, according to an analysis of British road traffic accidents.

Data from 32bn miles of battery-powered car travel and 3tn miles of petrol and diesel car trips showed that mile-for-mile electric and hybrid cars were twice as likely to hit pedestrians than fossil fuel-powered cars, and three times more likely to do so in urban areas.

Why eco-friendly cars are more hazardous is unclear, but researchers suspect a number of factors are to blame. Drivers of electric cars tend to be younger and less experienced, and the vehicles are much quieter than cars with combustion engines, making them harder to hear, especially in towns and cities.

“Electric cars are a hazard to pedestrians because they are less likely to be heard than petrol or diesel cars,” said Phil Edwards, first author on the study and professor of epidemiology and statistics at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. “The government needs to mitigate these risks if they are going to phase out the sale of petrol and diesel cars.”

“If you’re moving to an electric car, remember it’s a new kind of vehicle,” Edwards added. “They are much quieter than the old-fashioned cars, and pedestrians have learned to navigate roads by listening for traffic. Drivers of these vehicles need to be extra cautious.”

Road traffic accidents are the leading cause of death among children and young adults in the UK, with pedestrians making up a quarter of all deaths on the roads.

The solution to this problem might be importing fentanyl.

You feel me?

Tucker Carlson absolutely demolishes the argument that forcing everyone to purchase electric cars is somehow the ‘answer’ to climate change: 👇

“Electronic vehicles are a disaster for the energy grid, a disaster for the environment, and a disaster for your personal autonomy.” pic.twitter.com/q230qPbyad

— Scott Morefield (@SKMorefield) August 31, 2022

This makes a lot of sense.

It’s really just very reasonable.

We expect this sort of thing from the Germans.

European Conservative:

Germany’s transport minister has suggested banning weekend car use for the sake of meeting proposed emission quotas.

The two-day-a-week ban on personal use of the car, as well as new speed limits, are being considered as part of an effort to reduce Germany’s carbon footprint in the latest example of governments trying to control people for the sake of green targets.

Transport minister Volker Wissing, a member of the supposedly pro-market FDP party, made the remarks in relation to an impending new piece of onerous climate legislation, the Climate Protection Act, warning that the restrictions on personal car use could be implemented if alternative amendments were not made.

“Comprehensive and indefinite driving bans on Saturdays and Sundays” are being considered, Wissing admitted as Germany’s coalition government struggles to set emission cuts per sector under the proposed new climate legislation.

Germany is already facing the prospect of destroying its native auto industry with plans to ban new combustion engines after 2035. Meanwhile, green austerity has already prompted a fightback from farmers.

Under the terms of the Climate Protection Act, the German economy will have to cut 22 million metric tonnes of carbon emissions per year. Wissing told radio station Deutschlandfunk that “such large quantities can only be saved ad hoc by not using cars and trucks.”

If they’re trying to change the weather by stopping CO2, why did they shut down their nuclear plants though?

Should’ve thought about this before voting for this bitch

2011: Elon Musk couldn’t stop laughing about BYD.

Now, BYD is on the cusp of surpassing Tesla as the world’s #1 pure EV carmaker.

Americans have been laughing at China for 25 years. And losing every fukkking time.

pic.twitter.com/MmlKaGuLTu

— S.L. Kanthan (@Kanthan2030) December 28, 2023

US government-funded projects always fail miserably. Tesla was always a scam company designed to eat up public funds and then hype out stock prices.

Elon Musk is a yipper and a Diablo IV player (he’s been playing Diablo IV for months on end), and the Chinese are very serious about winning.

CNN:

China’s BYD sold a record number of cars in 2023, moving it closer to displacing Tesla as the world market leader for electric vehicles.

The Chinese company posted a 62% surge in global sales to just over three million units last year, compared to 2022, according to a stock exchange filing.

BYD sold 1.57 million battery electric vehicles (BEVs) last year, up 73%, as well as 1.44 million hybrids, 52% higher than the previous year.

Tesla is due to unveil its full-year sales figures as early as Tuesday. Analysts expect the US EV maker to have roughly met its annual delivery target of 1.8 million BEVs. It does not sell hybrids.

In 2022, BYD trailed Tesla in global BEV sales by about 400,000 units. The gap is expected to have narrowed last year. And in the most recent quarter, BYD may have already overtaken Elon Musk’s company.

Beijing has set a target that at least 20% of new cars sold annually by 2025 should be new energy vehicles (NEVs), which include BEVs, plug-in hybrids and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. By 2035, the government says, NEVs should become the “mainstream” of new car sales.

The first goal was achieved in 2022, about three years early. The second may also be reached earlier than expected.

In the first 11 months of 2023, 8.3 million units of new energy vehicles were sold, accounting for more than 30% of total car sales, according to data released last month by the China Association of Auto Manufacturers.

Miao Wei, former minister of China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said at a car forum in November that the government’s NEV penetration target of 50% by 2035 is likely to be achieved by 2025 or 2026 at the latest, according to state media.

Whether or not electric cars are even a good idea is debatable, but there is probably a place for them in ultra-urban environments which become very smoggy. China’s air has cleaned up massively since they started pushing electric bikes to replace the classic 90cc Hondas that have been a stable of Asian transport since the 1970s.

Obviously, the fact that you still have to burn “fossil fuels” to power electric cars defeats the moronic “global warming” arguments. However, if the cars are affordable, there is an argument about air quality, particularly in extremely crowded cities.

#BYD President Chuanfu Wang delivered cars to owners in Dubai, UAE. pic.twitter.com/UaEAwYHpLN

— ThinkerCar (@thinkercar) December 26, 2023

There was flooding that destroyed the road.

But there is no way that this car just happened to be driving across the road when it collapsed.

This asshole (probably a woman) drove straight into the hole.

You should always watch where you are going – particularly when there is heavy flooding – and if there is a gigantic missing piece of the road, you should hit the brakes in your car rather than driving into the gulch.

This is really just common sense, but as this is an ongoing issue, I feel a need to give a public service announcement on the issue.

Please also not that a car WILL NOT transform into a boat simply because you drive it into deep water.

That is, unless you have a boat-car (alternately known as a car-boat), which is something I’ve been recommending people buy for years.

It’s possible (or even likely) that they’ll be hating, but you will, nonetheless, be rolling.

I’m starting to think the global warming hoax is a conspiracy by fat people.

They want to turn the whole world into a gigantic air conditioner.

Irish Times:

Taking one in five cars off the road and cutting the cattle herd by 10 per cent by 2030 are measures under consideration as the Government finalises its updated Climate Action Plan.

The targets were described as “very ambitious on all fronts” by one person involved and huge investment in public transport will be needed.

The updated Climate Action Plan is said to be mostly finished and should be ready for Wednesday’s Cabinet meeting.

Drafts of the plan require a 20 per cent reduction in cars and a 10 per cent reduction in cattle by 2030.

The final plan is not yet agreed and a cabinet subcommittee meeting is to work out remaining issues.

Speaking on his first full day back as Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said he is confident the plan will be agreed, adding: “I’m determined that we should be the generation of politicians that passes on the planet in a better condition than we inherited it”.

There were delays to almost a quarter of the measures in last year’s Climate Action Plan.

Mr Varadkar said ambitious targets are “very hard to meet” but the Government has met three-quarters of them.

However, he said he wants to see improvement next year.

I don’t believe in global warming at all, and I also don’t believe that if it was warming, it would be bad. This would obviously be a good thing, improving crop yields and preventing old people in Scandinavia, Canada, and Russia from freezing to death.

However, whether or not lowering the carbon in the atmosphere would artificially cool the weather is another issue completely. Given that carbon is such a tiny fraction of total “greenhouse gases,” I don’t really see how it could.

But it’s possible that carbon capture could remove so much of the carbon that it actually would make the world colder? Of course, all plants would die before the temperature was affected.

If people are coming here to escape climate change des that means there is no climate change in Ireland?

— Benny Blanco (@BennyBfrmdbronx) December 14, 2022

Mercedes is adding a subscription fee to their electric vehicles that will increase horsepower and torque. It's happening. Late-stage capitalism is going to have people paying a monthly fee to improve the performance of a car they already bought. pic.twitter.com/7rHIkolC9R

— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) November 22, 2022

Everyone is getting poorer, including rich people and including companies.

As this situation continues, these corporations are going to start squeezing people more and more. They kind of have to, because serious downsizing of large companies is virtually impossible – especially when you don’t have the option of selling parts of the company to other companies because all other companies are also broke.

You’re going to see this sort of squeezing first from German companies, as The Big Squeeze hit Germany first. But the Germany problem is going to spread everywhere. As we’ve said over and over again, energy is an international market, so unless a country is buying energy from a sanctioned country, the price rises from energy sanctions on countries affect every country.

Business Insider:

How would you feel about paying $5 each month for the ability to lock and unlock your car from a distance through an app? What about a $25-per-month charge for advanced cruise control or $10 to access heated seats? What if those charges continued long after your car was paid off?

As vehicles become increasingly connected to the internet, car companies aim to rake in billions by having customers pay monthly or annual subscriptions to access certain features. Not content with the relatively low-margin business of building and selling cars, automakers are eager to pull down Silicon Valley-style profits.

But unlike with Netflix, you won’t be able to use your ex-girlfriend’s uncle’s login in your new BMW. And car buyers don’t seem too thrilled about the idea.

For automakers, the advantage of this model is clear. Not only do they get a stream of recurring revenue for years after an initial purchase, they can hope to maintain a longer-term relationship with the customer and build brand loyalty, said Kristin Kolodge, vice president and head of auto benchmarking and mobility development at J.D. Power.

This approach can also allow carmakers to streamline manufacturing by building cars to more uniform specifications, Mark Wakefield, who runs the automotive and industrial practice at the consulting firm AlixPartners, told Insider. Down the line, owners can add on the features they want à la carte.

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Some people may welcome the ability to only pay for the features they actually want, rather than a big bundle of add-ons. But car companies still haven’t figured out exactly what customers are willing to pay for, and what feels like a frustrating upcharge.

In 2019, BMW abandoned a plan to charge $80 per year for Apple CarPlay after widespread pushback. In December, Toyota said it would review a subscription plan that unintentionally paywalled use of the key fob for remote start.

“I think we’re going to see some interesting ebbs and flows of what really sticks,” Kolodge told Insider.

Automakers run the risk of making customers feel like they’re paying twice — once for a function to be built into a vehicle and again to activate it, Kolodge said. They may have more luck asking people to subscribe to brand-new services, rather than familiar features, she added.

Understandably, drivers aren’t nearly as excited about recurring fees as carmakers are.

An April study by Cox Automotive found that 75% of consumers are not willing to subscribe to most vehicle features. Drilling down deeper, 92% of respondents said heated and cooling seats should be included in a car’s up-front price, and 89% said the same for remote-start functions.

There is no plan to bring back Russian energy and there is no plan to bring back coal and other natural sources of energy. These people are telling you that following the cutting off of Russia, the plan is simply to build more windmills.

Turning cars into a service you have to pay for is just the first step in what is going to be a long process of companies squeezing the middle class to try to force them to choose between various things we grew up with as normal.

The people doing this think they’re being clever. There is no reason Germany needed to be dependent on Russia in the first place. They closed all their nuclear plants for no reason, and they have coal (everyone has coal). They made themselves dependent to try to change the weather (they want to turn the earth into a solid sheet of ice).

They think they are doing a Great Reset against you, and that they’re going to stop your breeding, maybe kill you with vaccines and poisoned food, and then replace you with robots.

The big problem here is that Russia and China (along with their increasing number of allies) are not on board with this agenda. If the West destroys their own economy and population, all that does is put them in a worse situation to confront all these people they declared war on.

It’s hilarious to watch these companies that are supposed to be making money try to manage the fact that they have all of this pressure to sacrifice money for a bizarre morality campaign.

French boomers are probably clever enough to remember the fact that Ukraine was a part of Russia a few years ago. They are also in Europe, so closer to this history.

But of course, their country is run by a World Economic Forum “young leader,” and besides that, they always have to bow to America.

Deutsche Welle:

French carmaker Renault has announced it will suspend operations at its Moscow factory over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The company was one of the few international businesses to have restarted operations at its Russia factory this week.

That drew the ire of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who called on Renault and other French companies operating in the country to “stop being sponsors of Russia’s war machine” during his address to French lawmakers on Wednesday.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba also called for a global boycott of the company.

After Renault’s decision to halt production, Kuleba said that Renault had made the “responsible” decision.

I welcome @renaultgroup’s statement on cessation of industrial activities in Russia. Responsible move against the backdrop of Russia’s ongoing barbaric aggression against Ukraine. https://t.co/8LFGoGz94e

— Dmytro Kuleba (@DmytroKuleba) March 23, 2022

What did Renault say?The company released a statement to say it was halting “activities in its manufacturing plant in Moscow” on Wednesday.

It added it was looking at “available options” when it came to its partnership with Russia’s largest car company, AvtoVAZ.

Renault has a 69% stake in the company, which leaves it more vulnerable to the Russian market than other competitors. Russia accounts for 8% of its core earnings, according to Citibank.

The French always do this thing – “we’re not going to do that just because Americans told us to do it.”

Then they always end up doing it.

The French are portrayed as traditionally libertine, and maybe that is true in some ways sort of, but they were the last Western holdouts on this gay thing (unless you include Ireland).

But they ended up going all in on that.

Tucker Carlson’s Tuesday monologue really complimented the piece I published earlier this week on the death of beauty.

“You may have noticed there are fewer and fewer beautiful things in our country.”

He said, as an absolutely factual matter, there is not such thing as a skyscraper that is not ugly, and that the ugliness of our environment is reflecting the ugliness of of our social order.

“There is no such thing is as a beautiful skyscraper – every single one of them is an atrocity.”

He also once again encouraged people to leave their deadly doomed urban centers.

He called out the Calhoun Study – one of my favorite studies and talking points.

Great stuff. It’s at the beginning of the video at the top.

A reader pointed out that architecture, cars, and women are only the beginning of the transformation from beauty to ugliness over the last decades.

Currency

Then:

Now:

Vending Machines

Then:

Now:

Gas Station Pumps

Then:

Now:

Wine Bottles

Then:

Now:

Office Furniture

Then:

Now:

Sitcoms

Then:

Now:

Children’s Books

Then:

Now:

And we could obviously go on and on.

This ugliness is unsustainable because it is anti-human.

Tucker says that this system is too disconnected from the natural world, so it must end. That’s my talking point. And it is the white pill.

Nature must reassert itself.

God wills it.

I was admonished by several Catholics for wishing for the death of my enemies.

I will have to consult Christian religious doctrine further, but I know the Bible contains prayers for the deaths of enemies.

I know that God wiped out the world with water, and promised to wipe it out again with fire.

And I know the world will be a better place if all of the cowards who submitted to this vax were dead.

I pray for their souls.

May God have mercy on them all.

But I don’t have sympathy.

The masses of people have destroyed the world by cooperating with satanic Jews, pedophile transhumanists, and unhinged women.

Everything has to change, and it will change.

Don’t be afraid.

Be brave.

Be hopeful.

We are bent but not broken, and our blood is pure.

Our enemies are not all powerful. They are dazzled, confused, and drunk on power.

We will live to see beauty.

Keep the faith.

God keeps his promises. 

There’s a lot to look forward to in your brave new future.

For example, you can’t drive a car anymore.

We have to do this to stop the virus and turn the earth into a giant block of ice by sucking all of the gasses out of the atmosphere.

The Guardian:

The street space occupied by parked cars may not seem like much, but it adds up. The US has an estimated 3.4 spaces for every car. In New York City, the amount of road space reserved for parking is roughly the size of 12 Central Parks, according to one estimate, and most of the city’s 4m street parking spots are free.

“The curb lane is some of the most valuable land on Earth,” said Donald Shoup, a transportation professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. “I think that’s our biggest mistake, to take some of the most valuable land on Earth and give it away, free, to cars.”

Street parking doesn’t just take away space. It can inform how people get around. “Parking is one of the things that has a really powerful impact on people’s decisions whether to drive or not,” said Daniel Firth, transportation director at C40 Cities, a network of more than 100 cities around the world with ambitious climate goals.

Shoup and others have found that underpriced street parking keeps people driving in cities, even in those that have good alternative transport options. More people driving means more city traffic – increasing congestion and pumping out pollution.

But cities that want to price, or even convert, free street parking face obstacles – and not just from drivers. Most cities don’t have enough information about how their curbs are used, making it difficult to decide how to manage this valuable space.

Companies offering curb management technology have sprung up to try to fill this gap, with promises to help cities reclaim their curbs. Their digital platforms map parking spaces and curb use around cities.

Having the information in one place and being able to visualize curb spaces on a map is vital, said Peter Richards, who leads the development of software product CurbIQ at Canadian consulting company IBI Group. CurbIQ was born out of years of working on parking strategy projects for cities and realizing cities don’t have easily-accessible, digitized information about their curbs, Richards said.

The endgame is to help cities reduce car numbers – along with congestion, noise, and pollution – while making better use of spaces and still meeting people’s mobility needs.

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During Covid, the political barriers to reclaiming curb spaces from free street parking were removed, said Maya Ben Dror, who leads transportation at the World Economic Forum. Commuters started working from home, freeing up parking spaces. Meanwhile, restaurants and other businesses needed outdoor space in cities. That allowed curb management companies to really grow during the pandemic, she said.

Haha.

WEF members just being casually introduced as official planners of global driving policy.

Based.

Why drive when you can stay home, forever?

In this episode of Humans Shoot Themselves in the DNA Foot Using Weird Substances, we discover that two everyday things could be damaging people’s offspring.

First, we’ll look at two chemicals used in car manufacturing that could result in drivers passing on birth defects and/or developing cancer.

Then, we’ll look at the possibility that pregnant women using opioids could be producing long-lasting “impairments” in their kids’ brains.

Study Finds:

Just in case you need one more reason to consider switching over to remote work, researchers from the University of California, Riverside find many commuters may be inhaling an unhealthy level of cancer-causing chemicals each time they drive back and forth to work. Consequently, these commuters may be at a higher risk of passing on birth defects or developing cancer.

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Getting down to specifics, the two chemicals in question for this study are benzene and formaldehyde. Manufacturers use both of these chemicals regularly in the building of cars. Both can cause cancer at or above a certain level of exposure. This new research conducted at UC Riverside indicates that the average California commuter is breathing in too much of both chemicals during their daily commute.

While both chemicals may cause cancer, formaldehyde exposure also has a link to reproductive and developmental toxicity.

“These chemicals are very volatile, moving easily from plastics and textiles to the air that you breathe,” says David Volz, UCR professor of environmental toxicology, in a university release.

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Should the public stop using cars? That may be a bit extreme, but researchers advise opening up the windows while driving as often as possible.

“At least with some air flow, you’d be diluting the concentration of these chemicals inside your car,” Reddam suggests.

As far as a more permanent solution goes, researchers would like to see both benzene and formaldehyde eliminated from car manufacturing altogether.

As of now, manufacturers use benzene to produce synthetic fibers and formaldehyde to bind plastics together.

Study Finds:

The dangers of opioid misuse are well documented, but now a new study finds abusing such drugs while pregnant can impact a woman’s child all the way from infancy to their teenage years. Troublingly, researchers say the number of expecting mothers using opioid drugs continues to rise year-over-year.

Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine find opioid exposure in the womb induces long-lasting “impairments” in the brain’s capacity to process sensory information. These brain changes may lead to health conditions including autism, ADHD, or substance abuse issues later on.

To reach these conclusions, scientists observed a group of lab mice after exposing them to fentanyl in the womb. Those rodents showed both withdrawal symptoms and sensory processing disorders from birth all the way through at least adolescence.

“While we had evidence on the effects of fentanyl exposure in newborns, such as premature birth and low birthweight, our study provides new preliminary evidence that the effects of fentanyl last well into adolescence and beyond,” says study author Asaf Keller, PhD, Interim Chair of the Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, in a university release. “It is a novel and important finding, but one that needs to be replicated in clinical studies.”

Drug misuse during pregnancy is a growing problem

According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, roughly seven percent of pregnant women reported using opioids while with child in 2019. Among that group, one in five admitted to misusing their prescribed opioids. Moreover, study authors speculate opioid use in general has likely grown worse over the past year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. There’s data to back up this hypothesis; the CDC reports drug overdose deaths reached their highest recorded levels ever in 2020. The number one drug involved in those deaths? Fentanyl.

Maybe modernity was a mistake?

It’s also possible that modernity wasn’t a mistake, but that someone should have been regulating this shit.