There has been alot of news coverage of the Tesla that was traveling over 100mph with 6 young occupants that got into an accident over this last weekend during the major Geostorm. The news is pushing more about the driver having a suspended license due to a Failure to Appear over a DUI citation. Thus the public that reads this will just assume this driver was intoxicated and driving too fast to impress his friends as Teslas are great for speeding. As a solo incident, thats an easy assumption and what i believe the media is exploiting. However the Tesla was screaming down the road and suddenly veers off course before flying and flipping into a building. The nature of that accident is very similar to yesterdays Tesla accident, also in LA area. Both Teslas were going too fast and both veered off course colliding in different fashions. Yesterdays Tesla accident was not driven by young adults but one or two parents with a Toddler in the back. How likely is it that the parent of that toddler was seriously speeding to the point that she lost control? Very unlikely. What is more likely is the computer system inside the Tesla glitched somehow resulting in sudden unintended acceleration and the driver seems to have lost control of the steering. However the path was an angled straight line based on where the Tesla hit the house and where it was coming from. Thus it looks like the Tesla was in control of steering at this point. Possible Teslas autosteer subsystem, Emergency Lane Departure Avoidance, which is always active when the Tesla is turned on unless specifically disabled each trip.
Emergency Lane Departure Avoidance is activated automatically every time the car turns on and intervenes later (and less often) but more forcefully if the driver allows the car to approach a lane-line too closely or quickly without using a turn signal, or if the car's sensors detect an imminent collision. Drivers can also override this system or turn it off, but it resets as soon as the car restarts.
Solar/geomagnetic activity has gone up and naturally Tesla accidents have increased. Funny how those correlate.
========================================
The computer errors from outer space (Elon Musk: Model S not a car but a ‘sophisticated computer on wheels’)
When computers go wrong, we tend to assume it's just some software hiccup, a bit of bad programming. But ionising radiation, including rays of protons blasted towards us by the sun, can also be the cause. These incidents, called single-event upsets, are rare and it can be impossible to be sure that cosmic rays were involved in a specific malfunction because they leave no trace behind them.
And yet they have been singled out as the possible culprits behind numerous extraordinary cases of computer failure. From a vote-counting machine that added thousands of non-existent votes to a candidate's tally, to a commercial airliner that suddenly dropped hundreds of feet mid-flight, injuring dozens of passengers
Plus, since giant ejections from the sun can sometimes send huge waves of particles towards Earth, what's called space weather, an unnerving prospect looms: we could see much more disruption to computers than we're used to during a massive geomagnetic storm in the future
Tesla suffers SUA and drives into a parking garage wall.
I'm begging all of you to NEVER get in a Tesla as long as you live. It started accelerating on its own in a parking garage and my dad lost all control of the car and we ran into a wall at 40 mph. Most horrifying experience of my life.
Jain is one of tens of thousands of Tesla owners who have experienced premature failures of suspension or steering parts, according to a Reuters review of thousands of Tesla documents. The chronic failures, many in relatively new vehicles, date back at least seven years and stretch across Tesla’s model lineup and across the globe, from China to the United States to Europe, according to the records and interviews with more than 20 customers and nine former Tesla managers or service technicians.
The exact cause of the Hutchison Effect is unknown in public spheres as it is classified under national security. However the most likely culprit seems to be a combination of electromagnetic sources coming together in a way to change the makeup of metals leading to their rusting, softening, fracturing, complete breaking, even dustification. Keep in mind the degree of metal materials that are within our buildings and infrastructure...even in concrete. Maybe this is why we are seeing an increase in building and bridge collapses?