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Articles like this that read more like hit piece are hard to finish. The language used seems gleeful at the investigation and possible sanctions.

api 5y ago
It's now very fashionable to hate Elon Musk. I knew this would happen back when it was fashionable to worship him and compare him to a comic book superhero. It's the natural progression, like a cultural version of the film The Wicker Man.
- FridayoLeary 5y ago
  Elon doesn't seem to behave like a normal person and economic cause and effect doesn't seem to work with him. I admire him for thinking completely out of the box and for single handedly taking on the entire car industry. This article seems to unfairly and gleefully demonize tesla, while substantial issues exist with almost every other car manufacturer.
CountDrewku 5y ago
Yeah that whole article just seemed like a weird opinion piece. I had to laugh at this part.... yes things will just suddenly change because Biden had a bad bicycle accident one time. >Advocates have had high hopes that President Biden—a cyclist who has endured a personal and horrific experience with a car crash—would revitalize the federal government’s commitment to road safety, especially with the aggressively multimodal Pete Buttigieg at the helm of the Department of Transportation, of which NHTSA is a part. So far Buttigieg has said all the right things, but his department hasn’t offered significant new protections to vulnerable road users. Edit: apparently it's referring to a crash that doesn't even involve cyclists. Which makes the whole reference even more off topic.
- burlesona 5y ago
  No, the article is referring to Biden’s first wife and 1-year old daughter dying in a car crash in 1972.
  - CountDrewku 5y ago
    Ok who cares? That's even less relatable to the article since the entire thing is about hitting walkers and cyclists and how big vehicles are at fault for this. Also vehicle safety was far worse in the 70s. What a stupid reference. Biden had a crash half a century ago, he'll totally change laws that he hasn't cared about for 40+ years in office.... I find it totally bizarre that people think someone who's a lifelong politician like this is just suddenly going to do everything they've always wanted and make their lives way better.
- adolph 5y ago
  Biden has at least twice publicly stated or suggested that the driver of the truck that struck his wife's vehicle, killing her and the couple's daughter, had been drinking, even though the driver was not charged with drunken driving (or any other infraction suggesting fault on his part). What's False No definitive evidence exists to prove or rule out whether the other driver had been drinking, and belief that drinking had contributed to the crash was reportedly prevalent among the local community and not something Biden simply made up on his own. [...] Based on evidence and witness accounts, it appeared that Neilia Biden had pulled into the truck driver’s right of way at an intersection with a two-way stop, and the tractor-trailer driver was unable to stop in time to avoid striking her vehicle: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-lie-wife-killed-drunk-driver/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-lie-wife-killed-drun...

api 5y ago

It's now very fashionable to hate Elon Musk. I knew this would happen back when it was fashionable to worship him and compare him to a comic book superhero. It's the natural progression, like a cultural version of the film The Wicker Man.

FridayoLeary 5y ago
Elon doesn't seem to behave like a normal person and economic cause and effect doesn't seem to work with him. I admire him for thinking completely out of the box and for single handedly taking on the entire car industry. This article seems to unfairly and gleefully demonize tesla, while substantial issues exist with almost every other car manufacturer.

CountDrewku 5y ago

Yeah that whole article just seemed like a weird opinion piece. I had to laugh at this part.... yes things will just suddenly change because Biden had a bad bicycle accident one time. >Advocates have had high hopes that President Biden—a cyclist who has endured a personal and horrific experience with a car crash—would revitalize the federal government’s commitment to road safety, especially with the aggressively multimodal Pete Buttigieg at the helm of the Department of Transportation, of which NHTSA is a part. So far Buttigieg has said all the right things, but his department hasn’t offered significant new protections to vulnerable road users. Edit: apparently it's referring to a crash that doesn't even involve cyclists. Which makes the whole reference even more off topic.

burlesona 5y ago
No, the article is referring to Biden’s first wife and 1-year old daughter dying in a car crash in 1972.
- CountDrewku 5y ago
  Ok who cares? That's even less relatable to the article since the entire thing is about hitting walkers and cyclists and how big vehicles are at fault for this. Also vehicle safety was far worse in the 70s. What a stupid reference. Biden had a crash half a century ago, he'll totally change laws that he hasn't cared about for 40+ years in office.... I find it totally bizarre that people think someone who's a lifelong politician like this is just suddenly going to do everything they've always wanted and make their lives way better.
adolph 5y ago
Biden has at least twice publicly stated or suggested that the driver of the truck that struck his wife's vehicle, killing her and the couple's daughter, had been drinking, even though the driver was not charged with drunken driving (or any other infraction suggesting fault on his part). What's False No definitive evidence exists to prove or rule out whether the other driver had been drinking, and belief that drinking had contributed to the crash was reportedly prevalent among the local community and not something Biden simply made up on his own. [...] Based on evidence and witness accounts, it appeared that Neilia Biden had pulled into the truck driver’s right of way at an intersection with a two-way stop, and the tractor-trailer driver was unable to stop in time to avoid striking her vehicle: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-lie-wife-killed-drunk-driver/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-lie-wife-killed-drun...