The South Will Reek Again

This is why the recall occurred. EVs are required to make certain types of sound at low speeds. These sounds are evaluated and approved using certain standards. The boom box mode either eliminates or covers up the approved sound with something else. Granted, a blind person won't step in front of a Tesla that is making…

Yep I was following one of the protests in this area back in 2020, trying to catch up and join. Glad we didn’t, from a couple blocks away we could hear the flash-bangs they threw at the group to try and disperse them. It was an evening march, common during the summer of 2020, and families with kids sometimes joined…

In Philadelphia the cops surrounded a random (black, of course) family’s car, busted out the windows, stole the baby, and paraded around with him for a while before somebody realized they should return the baby to the parents.

As I noted in another comment: Allowing this to continue the way it has, relative to the treatment BLM or Indigenous protests, shows that the support is not just those protesting, but everyone at every level of government letting it continue rather unabated.

That’s part of it. Allowing this to continue the way it has, relative to the treatment BLM or Indigenous protests, shows that the support is not just those protesting, but everyone at every level of government letting it continue rather unabated.

I once got tear-gassed for sitting in a park to protest a logging operation in an old-growth forest. We weren’t blocking traffic. We weren’t damaging anything. We weren’t shutting down the economy. We weren’t armed. We weren’t doing anything other than sitting and standing around, waving signs, and screaming at…

When protests form around those issues and grow to any size or “threaten the flow of our economy”, they’re quickly crushed by police agencies backed by political decrees. See any and all pipeline protests, indigenous rights blockades on rail lines, tent cities, etc.

I totally get that and I wouldn’t have to be the one to make the decision to start enforcing the law against these people. At the same time all this does is legitimize the craziness. If you’re more willing to resort to violence. If you act like your nuts. If you’re more likely to keep a gun in the car and use it. If…

Cripple is a strong word. It would not take long for a slew of temporary workarounds to be put in place.

The cops are in on it.  They’re all right wing fascists.

“About 50 to 60 pickup trucks and 100 protesters have the bridge shut down”

Again. Since they already accuse governments of taking away their freedoms go for it! Arrest them all. Impound all the vehicles. Put them in a long slow line to get in front of a judge. Keep their vehicle as evidence. Fine them all as much as you can. Then let them pay the towing, and storage fees for the 6 months or…

Yeah, sponsored by GOP members.

I don’t understand why this can’t be solved by some state troopers and a fleet of tow trucks. 

I can’t believe they haven’t shut this down already. I assumed every politician cared about money.

Stellantis, formerly Fiat Chrysler, reported normal operations

You’re right. But if I’m reading the article correctly, the NHTSA is mad because when the Boombox mode is used, whatever’s being played overrides the standard noise. So it’s not that it’s silent. It’s just playing whatever’s on the stereo instead of the whirring, chirping sound. 

This feature is not the required noise that ensures pedestrians/cyclists can hear the vehicle, but a feature that overrides that safety feature to play music (or, quite possibly, to play nothing and end up with no noise).