The news points out that the owners had an extra large driveway where they parked two infamously “brightly lit” Tesla cars far away from their home.

Two Teslas were involved in a fire that spread to nearby vegetation at a Lafayette residence, the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District (Con Fire) said. The fire happened Tuesday morning at 198 Hunsaker Canyon Road. The fire started in the home’s driveway where two Teslas parked next to each other. […] The driveway is large enough and far enough from the home to where the house was not threatened by the fire. Platt said no structures were threatened due to the fire. However, the two vehicles were destroyed by the fire…

With plummeting value of these vehicles, as Californians wisely say they never will be fooled again by Elon Musk fraud, it kind of begs a new question… are Tesla owners storing them in remote spots and hoping these cars burn up for insurance money?

Tesla sales in California dropped 24.1 % in the second quarter, the brand’s third straight quarterly decline in the state. Purchases dipped 7.8% in the first quarter of 2024 and 9.8% in the final quarter of last year. Year-to-date, Tesla sales in California are down 17% compared to last year, according to the latest analysis of new vehicle registrations published by the California New Car Dealers Association (CNCDA). Instead of a Tesla from Musk’s $793 billion electric vehicle empire, California car buyers are purchasing battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) from Toyota, Hyundai, and Ford. The analysis found Toyota BEV registrations have soared 108.1% so far this year, while Hyundai and Ford BEV registrations rose 65.7% and 26.4%, respectively.

As Toyota’s battery electric vehicle (BEV) sales surge by nearly 110%, Tesla’s valuation craters across the country into toxic fire pits, exposing the perils of hype over substance in the automotive industry.

It’s worth calling out that Toyota’s pioneering eBox BEV, powered by AC Propulsion engines, stands as a testament to responsible engineering in 2006 — a path that was shamefully bullied out of the market by false representations when Tesla co-opted the technology in the 2010s without due credit or care.

A three-quarter’s long market correction away from the fraud of Tesla and back towards Nissan and Toyota’s time-tested manufacturing excellence is long overdue.

It should go without saying that the Japanese manufacturing standards, rooted in post-WWII reforms under American occupation, were designed to prevent the very corporate malpractices and ill-gotten profits by Elon Musk that he’s now trying to use to overthrow American democracy. Without fraud, there would be no Tesla.

We can blame a lax regulatory environment in the U.S. market for dangerous replays of multiple past corporate scandals.

Have we learned nothing from Texas-based Enron, familiar to everyone… or even the Texas-based Dell?

Computer historians may note how Tesla’s trajectory eerily mirrors past technological debacles in electrical engineering such as Dell’s concealed 97% failure rate, and an underlying capacitor plague story.

A scientist steals a secret formula for an electrical product from his Japanese employer and takes it to China. Then it is stolen again and turns up in Taiwan. But something goes wrong – and thousands, perhaps millions, of computers and electrical goods in the West begin to burn out or explode. It sounds like the plot of a thriller, but it’s reality.

The fact that Tesla could inject intentional and egregious lies into the BEV market to unseat Nissan, let alone Toyota, underscores a disturbing pattern of corporate negligence and consumer endangerment in America.

For example Tesla very strategically lied about battery range to shock the market with false superiority and displace the global-sales leader BEV Nissan LEAF; engineers were directed to pollute dashboard numbers to dangerously defraud owners while sending reports and complaints into black hole. Does anyone really believe the market could correct this on its own? We mainly see settlements to hush victims, not to mention class-action lawsuits blocked by heavy “fine print” tactics that obviously were setup by Tesla’s predator CEO to shame and blame his unwitting victims.

Austin-based Tesla today is emerging as the Austin-based Dell of yesterday, repeating a tragic capacitor plague disaster with near total failure rates in vehicles that “burn out or explode”.

The electric vehicle industry demands innovation rooted in safety, sustainability, and ethical practices. It’s time we hold egregious tech frauds accountable and return to baseline principles of responsible engineering that once defined American innovation by embracing industry regulation… as found in a rapid rise in vehicle quality and performance from American occupied Japan (and Germany).

California’s SB-1386 revolutionized data breach notifications globally, proving that state-level regulation can drive widespread change even without federal action. I was on the front-lines in Silicon Valley detecting and preventing breaches in 2003 and remember a positive sea-change after California passed a law, like it was yesterday. In this light, OpenAI’s opposition to California’s proposed AI regulation SB-1047 (Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act) appears shortsighted and out of touch with very important recent historical precedent.

While OpenAI cites concerns about innovation and talent retention, these arguments echo past objections to groundbreaking regulations that have since become industry standards without problem. Their hollow-sounding stance seems more like an attempt to avoid oversight rather than a genuine concern for progress.

Conversely, Anthropic’s evolving, more receptive approach to the revised bill demonstrates a nuanced understanding of regulatory dynamics and the potential for well-crafted legislation to foster responsible innovation.

Importantly, technologies like W3C’s Solid project (solidproject.org) already offer innovative solutions that could help AI companies meet the proposed bill’s requirements. Solid’s decentralized data architecture provides users with unprecedented control over their data, enabling easy opt-out mechanisms, transparent data usage tracking, and even simplified implementation of “kill switches” for AI systems.

OpenAI’s failure to recognize or advocate for such existing technological solutions further underscores their misalignment with forward-thinking approaches to AI governance. By embracing rather than resisting thoughtful regulation and leveraging innovative technologies like Solid, companies can position themselves at the forefront of responsible AI development.

In essence, Anthropic’s engagement with regulators and openness to adaptive solutions aligns with the historical pattern of California’s regulatory leadership driving positive industry-wide change. Meanwhile, OpenAI risks finding itself on the wrong side of history, missing an opportunity to shape responsible AI practices that could become global standards.

American history is full of censorship and denials, as evidenced perhaps best by the KKK controlling the Oklahoma narrative for so long.

The massacre took place over two days in 1921, a long-suppressed episode of racial violence that destroyed a community known as Black Wall Street and ended with as many as 300 Black people killed, thousands of Black residents forced into internment camps overseen by the National Guard and more than 1,200 homes, businesses, schools and churches destroyed.

It’s 2024 and American families are still just now learning what happened 100 years ago to their relatives under extremist violent racism directed and spread by President Woodrow Wilson.

The three are among 11 sets of remains exhumed during the latest excavation in Oaklawn Cemetery, state archaeologist Kary Stackelbeck said Friday.

“Two of those gunshot victims display evidence of munitions from two different weapons,” Stackelbeck said. “The third individual who is a gunshot victim also displays evidence of burning.”

Evidence of burning. The U.S. government is clearly implicated in racist executions, concentration camps, mass graves, and even burning the bodies… a decade before Nazi Germany. Why do you think Hitler openly boasted Henry Ford was his big inspiration, or why Hitler named his personal train the “Amerika”? Nazi Germany looked to the American violent systemic suppression of non-whites as a rough blueprint for genocode.

The Tulsa victims were decorated veterans and successful business people, targeted within just one area in a large coordinated nation-wide terror campaign that had lasted years (e.g. “Red Summer” in nearly 30 cities); to remove and block all prosperity of American Blacks. It was made easy to hide under President Wilson and his toxic nativist “America First” slogan. For example, he had ordered all Blacks segregated and removed from positions of government. He even sent federal troops to round up and murder Black farmers in Arkansas after they organized meetings, so the very act of group speech to represent Black voices was systematically interrupted and criminalized.

President Wilson replied… that he had made “no promises in particular to Negroes [sic], except to do them justice.” […] Many African American employees were downgraded and even fired. Employees who were downgraded were transferred [out of sight].

Perhaps most notable, to those wondering what happened after this KKK President finished his second term in 1921, Warren Harding was elected in a landslide and gave a 10 minute speech June 6 at Lincoln University calling on Americans to educate themselves better and never forget the Tulsa Massacre.

Much is said about the problem of the races, but let me tell you that there is nothing that government can do which is akin to educational work. One of the great difficulties with popular government is that citizenship expects at the hands of government that which it should do for itself. No Government can wave a magical wand and take a race from bondage to citizenship in half a century. All that the Government can do is to afford an opportunity for good citizenship.

The colored race, in order to come into its own, must do the great work itself, in preparing for that participation. Nothing will accomplish so much as educational preparation. I commend the valuable work which this institution is doing in that direction. It is a fine contrast to the unhappy and distressing spectacle that we saw the other day out in one of the Western States. God grant that, in the soberness, the fairness and the justice of this country, we shall never have another spectacle like it.

Spectacle, what spectacle? His point about a magical wand and things taking time is notable. Harding was calling out Tulsa’s massacre in a Presidential address, like it was front of mind for all Americans. Somehow this brief moment in time, the magic of that message, was soon lost within the momentum of Wilson’s KKK empire.

Tulsa officials immediately moved to competely erase the massacre from records, going so far as to build a new white supremacist meeting center (“Klavern”) directly on top of the firebombed Black business and homes.

It was a pattern of long-term and coordinated oppression that was being repeated throughout the country.

A horrible “contagion” had been spread across America after 1915, as thousands of KKK domestic terrorism and disinformation cells sprouted under President Wilson.

Around the same time as the national KKK “poison” network was busy re-writing American history to forget Tulsa, Harding in October gave a speech in Alabama that clarified his thoughts in ending the long problem of American institutionalized racism.

I would say let the black man vote when he is fit to vote: prohibit the white man voting when he unfit to vote. Especially would I appeal to the self-respect of the colored race. I would inculcate in it the wish to improve itself: distinct race, with a heredity, a set of traditions, an array of aspirations all its own. […] I would accent that a black man can not be a white man, and that he does not need and should not aspire to be as much like a white man as possible in order to accomplish the best that is possible for him. He should seek to be, and he should be encouraged to be, the best possible black man, and not the best possible imitation of a white man.

Prohibit the white man voting? By August 1923 he was dead, with no real explanation.

Mrs. Harding refused all entreaties to allow the doctors to conduct an autopsy and instead ordered that her husband be embalmed shortly after his death. Dr. Wilbur was especially frustrated by this refusal because the press and a bereaved public blamed the president’s doctors for incompetence, malpractice and even plots of poisoning the president.

Remember? Never forget? I dare you to find even one American who remembers President Harding’s first name or the year he took office, let alone his speeches on racism and the Tulsa massacre.

Ok, so if the 2013 Hyperloop “invention” is actually a 150-year old concept doomed to obvious failure, what about SpaceX playing obnoxious PR with boastful claims since 2011 that it’s the first to figure out reuseable rockets?

SpaceX Makes History With First-Ever Recycled Rocket

Wat. I mean really. Wat.

SpaceX becomes first to re-fly used rocket

Oh FFS. Who writes this stuff?

How spaceX successfully designed the world’s first reusable rocket

No. No. And… Nope. The whole history of SpaceX seems to be littered with ugly disinformation.

SpaceX Unveils Plan for World’s First Fully Reusable Rocket

It’s not even remotely true that SpaceX would be first, yet it still floats around as an unchallenged headline.

Apparently they’ve just been throwing more money at propaganda than anyone before, with more marketing and attention seeking fiction to generate funding, not actually solving much else by comparison.

Boeing’s Reusable Aerodynamic Space Vehicle (RASV) developed in the 1970s would have taken off and landed horizontally, like an aircraft, and would have featured the rapid turnaround, ease of maintenance, economy of operation, and abort capability found in the commercial airplane industry. RASV would launch several dozens (if not hundreds) of times, would be able to fly again shortly after landing (in two weeks or even in 24 hours or less), and would use small flight and operational teams.

What made the Clipper Graham [DC-X] unique was that it combined the development of rocket-powered single-stageto-orbit transport with aircraft-like operations and a program approach that featured a modest budget, an accelerated timetable, a small managerial team, and minimal paperwork. No other single-stage-to-orbit project had been run before in this “faster, cheaper, smaller” fashion. Also, the Graham Clipper was the first rocket-powered vehicle, experimental or not, to demonstrate aircraft-like operations.

A full-scale pre-production orbital prototype was planned (DC-Y), meant to be followed by the production DC-1.

Allegedly when SpaceX was created, Elon Musk told Jess Sponable that it was to continue the prior DC-X project success. Sponable had in fact participated in multiple reusable rocket vehicle projects at USAF, DARPA and elsewhere including the X-33 and X-34, just to be clear about the many priors to SpaceX. The point is that a disinformation tweet from Elon Musk might generate millions of views instantly and headlines in papers, all poisoning history, yet an interview a year ago with Jess about real facts has only 115 views so far…

…[DC-X] did the rotation maneuver that SpaceX did so dramatically in recent years in 1996 or 1995… a lot of [our DC-X reusable rocket] data was provided to Elon Musk at SpaceX…

While DC-X was by far the most famous in the mid 1990s — literally entered into a space hall of fame — somehow SpaceX has been allowed to lie. It constantly spread misleading information, without any corrections or shame, as if it was initiating the same concepts and maneuvers at least two decades late in the 2010s.

The first flight of the DC-X from the “Clipper-Site” was on August 18, 1993, at Northrup Strip, now known as White Sands Space Harbor, on White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. The team actually built a mini-spaceport along the edge of the Northrop Strip. It incorporated all the functions of an operational spaceport. It was a breathtaking vertical launch that left the spectators in attendance in awe. “The DC-X launched vertically, hovered in mid-air at 150 feet, and began to move sideways at a dogtrot. After traveling 350 feet, the onboard global-positioning satellite unit indicated that the DC-X was directly over its landing point. The spacecraft stopped mid-air again and, as the engines throttled back, began its successful vertical landing. Just like Buck Rogers,” said an article from the Ada Joint Program Office of the U.S. Government.

Politics killed the DC-X reusable rocket for various reasons. The concept went dormant until after President Bush mistakenly withdrew from the ABMT and then the idea was restarted in a new arms race… driving DoD innovations into a highly unaccountable private company that has become known for its failures: SpaceX.

Awkward.

Apparently everything Musk does turns out a giant origination scam, stealing ideas and public money to fraudulently redirect investors away from real engineering into his political pockets.