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What about Model S? (plus a rant)

posted 11 years ago by avortac
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Doesn't anyone here know about Tesla Motors and their successful electric cars? The Tesla Roadster Sport and Model S are pretty interesting in my opinion.

But it's odd to see that they are not being discussed here at all, although they are very viable solutions as far as I can tell.

And don't ask me for a link, you should have enough interest in this and enough intelligence and motivation to search more about it yourself - otherwise, you are not really even worthy of having knowledge about it.

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DISCLAIMER: Don't read this rant, if you are easily pissed off or have a faint heart, or want to live in ignorance (like Cypher of 'The Matrix'). Some of what is written may shock you in one way or another. In such a case, I suggest you just read the main point of the message, and reply to it or not, and go about your business (or leisure, or creativity, or art, or anything you want). Also, this is not legal advise, just an explanation. I am not responsible for any action taken by someone or someones who read this message.

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

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Still, an electric car is not a real solution to anything. Every car would have to be an electric one for it to be closer to a real solution. But true solution would require changing -everything-, from the way people usually think (they have been brainwashed), to completely eliminating all corruption in the world (the ones who did the brainwashing).

People would actually have to be 'awakened' first, infrastructures and production techniques would have to be changed, and so on. Also, people would have to really learn to think for themselves instead of simply sucking some lie-based, hostile dogma from an idiot box or a paper and going about their business.

The reason why everything is so awful that things like suppressing beneficial technological advancements (but advancing harmful ones) can happen is basically the stupidity of the people. They simply accept things too easily, and they don't question anything, not nearly enough anyway.

People of this world happily and gladly sign all kinds of applications, and submit registrations, without even bothering to find out what those words really mean in 'legalese' (which is the language that 'they' use to control people). Regis = king, so when you 'register' something, you transfer ownership of that thing to the government. Whoops, after registration, the government or a corporation owns your car, your computer, or.. yes. Even your child.

To apply means to beg, and we all know what 'to submit' means. So basically you are begging that your unalienable rights are rendered null and void, so that you can get 'privileges' instead (so-called "civil rights")! Privileges can be taken away.. (rights can't)

I bet that even when you buy a Tesla Model S or any other electric car, you will not receive allodial title - that is, full ownership of the car (don't call it a 'vehicle', before you have checked what THAT means in 'legalese'..)

Usually they never give you the full allodial title - they simply give you 'partial ownership', when you buy a car. Government is the REAL owner, especially after you 'register' the car out of your free will.

Everyone has a right to travel, without requiring any kind of licensing. Everyone has the right to own any travelling device or apparatus, without having to 'register' it, and without the government having the right to take it away from you. You don't need a driver's license, lawfully speaking.

If you read those acts and statutes that people sadly think are the same thing as law (they are NOT), you may realize that you only need a license if you are doing COMMERCIAL "DRIVING" with a "MOTOR VEHICLE" (which is also defined in 'legalese' to be something different than your common sense would tell you). If you are simply travelling, by using an automobile (or anything else that you own), you do not need a license.

Btw, this is not 'legal advice', I am simply trying to explain what basically caused all this to happen, and why people are not having lots of leisure, having electric cars and living in a relaxed, happy utopia. It's because people are stupid, not because the corporations are evil.

Evil corporations could NOT do what they are doing, if people were intelligent, diligent, aware, smart and questioned everything, like human beings should.

The reason why GM can do what it did, and why the world won't see the electric car becoming as popular as the gasoline car is right now is people. Sure, those corporations are horrible monsters with no responsibilities and all the 'civil rights' of a 'person' (which is not a human being, btw), and it's awful what they do and what happens in the world as a consequence of their evil.

But all that is required for evil to reign is for good people to do nothing. I am paraphrasing, because I don't think men should always get stuck with all the responsibility for everything, especially since women have helped the evil so much, and are still doing it. Feminism is certainly a big part of creating chaos between the sexes, a really evil 'ism' that spawns from communism. Feminism already existed in communist countries, before it started rearing it's ugly head in other countries as well.

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[–] apeweek 11 years ago

Well, you are correct that we should be discussing the new Tesla Model S. But the movie at the top of this board is now several years old, so most of the discussion here has dried up. A couple people, myself included, check in and reply to the few interesting posts that show up.

You are also correct to point out that it is primarily ignorance that holds back many otherwise useful developments, such as electric cars. But this won't stop the development of alternative transportation, it just gets slowed (way) down.

If major automakers hadn't (reluctantly) jumped on new battery technology to release actual electric cars, hobbyists would have, as they had begun to already with relatively inexpensive lithium batteries imported from China.

EV hobbyists in 30-mile range electric cars are easy to ignore, but hobbyists in 100 and 200 mile range electric cars attract media reporters, and pretty soon people start asking why aren't these cars being made for the rest of us?

There's still a lot of inertia, and will be for quite a while, around gas-fueled transportation, no matter how good or cheap EVs get.

Change is very hard when people quite naturally cling to what they WANT to be true, whether it's supportable or not. I engage in many conversations with people in complete denial of basic mathematical facts, the price of gasoline versus the price of electricity, for example. Some folks will flat-out swear that gasoline costs less than electricity no matter what the math says. How do you effect change with people like this in the way?

The answer is not to worry about them. Build change with the people who want change. If what you are doing makes sense, you will prosper more than the stick-in-the-muds will. Then one day they will be forced to join you.

It's not efficient, but this is nearly always how change happens.