That condensation looks like it’s on the inside of the windshield. If it is, that’s not good news.

Here’s a snip from the Reuter’s article:

There’s upside and downside to fleet driver, opens new tab, monitoring. It provides a certain ammount of protection for the employee, opens new tab, as much as a panopticon, opens new tab, for the employer.

I don’t think she would have needed to go super fast into the pond. Most cars float - at least for a bit. She could have backed up enough to float the back end. If it was a single motor, there’s no drive wheel contact; or maybe there was enough car floating to lose traction to the front, too. Shift into drive, churn…

Ballpark a semi tire contact patch at 40 square inches. That 18,000lb per axle is 4,500 lbs per tire, or 112.5 lbs per square inch on the road surface.

I have two hot takes:

A correction: The fourth power law requires weight per axle, so the 5000lb ev is really 2500lb per axle. it’s really the truck does 268738% of the damage of the EV.

In Michigan, the weight limit semi is 18,000 lbs per axle. Sure, the EV does 240% of the damage an equivelent ICE vehicle; but that’s buried in the noise floor of a fully loaded semi doing 16796% of the damage of the 5000lb EV.

A few more details would really help make sense of the numbers. The grants include purchase of new buses (~US$250k-$350k per) and installation of level 2 charging at the bus depot.

“She was later released on $40 bail (yes, you read that right)“

Other systems are geofenced/road type prevented from engaging at the L3 level; which is probably where Tesla’s autopilot and FSD are eventually going to end up.

I don’t have the data handy to support this; but I remember reading that most drunk driving accidents and fatalities are caused by the very drunk - like BAC above .15. That’s why, when the states moved from 0.1 to 0.08 as the DWI limit, there wasn’t a statistically signifigant drop in accidents.

Here’s an article from the Orlando Sentinel about the dispute. https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2023/10/12/fence-dispute-agnes-heights/

A map would help set the context of this discussion. I-375 is the major connector from the east side of the metro area to the downtown core. That traffic uses I-75 and I-94. The northern terminus of 375 is the stadium district, where Ford Field and Comerica Park are located; the southern ends right on Jefferson.

If I had money, I’d tell you what I’d do. I’d drive down to Dwight Phillips Auto Sales and buy this Grand Marquis. (https://www.autotrader.com/cars-for-sale/vehicle/691424338)

I read the original news article again. The family is from suburban Chicago, which is why the dateline is there; but there’s no menti0n of where they rented, or where they were stranded.

If you weren’t all that tuned into automotive things - would you know that you needed to go to a Tesla supercharger?

An airbag deployment gets expensive to repair; but it doesn’t automatically total out the car, it depends on the value of the car. I’ve seen insurance companies doing both.

Absolutely not.

I may have commented about this before about Toyota’s Power greater than Requested defect; but it’s worth trying to find the expert testimony report Michael Barr did for Booker vs. Toyota.