Dangers of the Electronic Car

Guest Post by Eric Peters

You may have heard about the death of the woman who was killed by her Tesla when she inadvertently backed it into a pond and then discovered – as it slowly sank into the pond – that she could not open the door to get out.

She eventually drowned.

The woman – who happened to be the billionaire sister-in-law of Mitch “dirty turtle” McConnell, the glitching front-man for the other half of the Uniparty in the Senate – made the mistake of buying an electronically controlled car. Her Tesla did not have mechanical door pulls; instead, the doors are opened and closed by push-button electric actuators and computers that require electricity to operate. Computer-controlled electronics don’t work very well when immersed; try it with your smartphone and see.

So, when Agenla Chao – the now-dead woman – backed up her car into the pond, the water shorted out the door controls and they could not be unlocked or opened. This resulted in her slow death-by drowning, as it took a while for the Tesla to go totally under. In the meanwhile, she reportedly had time to call/text for help – which came in plenty of time – to watch her drown. Had she backed up into that pond with just about any other car, the people who came to her aid would have had plenty of time to get a door open – and get her out.

But they weren’t able to, because it was a Tesla.

These electronically controlled devices also don’t work very well when dry.

Apparently, the accident itself occurred as a result of Chao’s inadvertently tapping Reverse when she wanted Drive. Italicized to draw attention to the fact that – in Chao’s Tesla – there is no gear selector in the usual/physical sense of a lever that moves back-and-forth from Park through Reverse, then Neutral and Drive, etc. Instead, there is an icon on the touchscreen that the user – to call this person a driver is as silly as calling the person who rides an amusement park carousel horse an equestrian – taps to select forward and backward and so on.

It’s easy to make a mistake because there is no feel – other than the sensation of tapping the screen. It is not like pulling a lever backward – and past Reverse to Drive, which has a definite feel to it – though less so in most modern cars because the selector is now also an electronic  control. Still, there’s a higher degree of physicality. Much more so than the tapping of what amount to apps. When you are tapping your smartphone’s screen, how often do you make a mistake?

Chao’s was fatal.

Her real mistake, of course, was buying such a dangerous device. A ’70s-era Pinto may have been vulnerable to exploding – if hit very hard from behind, with sufficient force to sever the fuel filler neck from the gas tank, which could result in both a leak and a spark that might trigger a fire (and potentially, an explosion). But the Pinto was, otherwise, not an unsafe car. It didn’t catch fire spontaneously, when parked. It didn’t catch fire when it was being fueled up. It didn’t drive itself into other cars – or people. And if you managed to back one up into a pond, the doors could be opened manually. Also the (usually) manual, crank-down windows.

No electricity – or computers – required.

Yet “Pinto” has become almost synonymous with “unsafe.” The car’s very name is the butt of jokes. It was the object of a massive recall and massively expensive (for Ford) litigation. Though the individual risk of a fire/explosion was extremely slight (more than three million were made over its ten year production run while the total number of confirmed fires was fewer than 30; if you’re interested in an interesting story about the Pinto, see here) the little Ford was pariah-ized by the media and gone after bigly by the “safety” apparat.

There’s an interesting incongruity in that.

Battery powered devices – not just those made by Tesla – have a built-in risk of spontaneously combusting. It is not necessary to run into one at high speed. They can – and have – caught fire while parked. And charging, due to the very high voltage involved and the heat involved. If the lithium-ion battery is immersed (especially in brackish/salty water) it can catch fire. Water will put out a Pinto fire. It can start an EV fire. Given that it commonly rains heavily – and that it is not uncommon for there to be high water in the road – this is certainly a safety issue.

If, of course, safety were the issue.

But it isn’t – which ought by now to be obvious. At least as regards battery-powered, electronic devices such as Teslas – but it’s not just them. It is all of them. The “safety” apparat looks upon their safety problems with interesting indifference. As if safety were much less important – to the apparat – than something else.

What’s much more important, of course, is the pushing of these devices – and getting the public to accept them.

It is already hard to get most people to accept them because of their limitations, as well as their cost. Only a relative handful of people will choose to buy an inferior device when a less-costly and superior alternative is available. But almost no one will knowingly choose to buy – and get inside – a dangerous device.

Ergo, the apparat must pretend not to see that these devices are exactly that. Just the same as the apparat pretended not to see that the mRNA drugs people were misled to believe were “vaccines” were dangerous – as well as ineffective.

This speaks to the actual motives of the apparat.

They have as much to do with “keeping us safe” as the calming cattle chutes designed by Temple Grandin had to do with keeping the cattle alive. Well, they did keep the cattle alive. Long enough to calmly walk those last 20 yards or so for their date with the knock-on-the-head.

And that – as the little song goes – is how we get hamburger.

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