Chuck Darwin<p>The Tesla manual has this Warning ⚠️ </p><p>As always, be aware of your vehicle and surroundings before driving. Never rely on Model X to automatically select a suitable drive mode without confirming the selection before you start to drive.</p><p>Regardless of whether you or the car did the gear selection, what do you do if the Model X starts moving in the wrong direction? </p><p>The manual explains: </p><p>Note</p><p>To shift from Drive into Reverse or vice versa, the driving speed must be less than 5 mph (8 km/h).</p><p>The touchscreen's drive mode strip displays Park and Neutral at all times. <br>To shift into Park when driving below 5 mph (8 km/h), touch the button on the drive mode strip while pressing the brake pedal. <br>In emergency situations when driving above 5 mph (8 km/h), press and hold the Park button to slowly bring the vehicle to a stop.</p><p>What could be more obvious?</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/ux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ux</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/humaninterface" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>humaninterface</span></a><br><a href="https://c.im/tags/designforsafety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>designforsafety</span></a><br> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Angela" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Angela</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Chao" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chao</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mitch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mitch</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/McConnell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>McConnell</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/drowned" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>drowned</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tesla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tesla</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Elon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Elon</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a></p>
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Chuck Darwin<p>How Do You Put a Tesla Model X in Gear?</p><p>OVER THE WEEKEND, the Wall Street Journal published a long report on the accidental death of the shipping magnate <a href="https://c.im/tags/Angela" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Angela</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Chao" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chao</span></a>, sister to former transportation secretary Elaine Chao and sister-in-law to soon-to-be former Senate Republican leader <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mitch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mitch</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/McConnell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>McConnell</span></a>. </p><p>News of Angela Chao's death first appeared in shipping trade publications with no explanation, then was vaguely reported as an automobile accident; <br>McConnell, in announcing his plans to resign from his leadership post, said her dying had prompted him to think about the end of his own career. </p><p>What the Journal reported was that Chao had <a href="https://c.im/tags/drowned" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>drowned</span></a> inside her <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tesla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tesla</span></a> Model X after accidentally backing it into a pond on her Texas estate, on the short drive between the guesthouse and the main house. </p><p>According to the story, she called a friend in the guesthouse from inside the sinking car to ask for help: <br>While making a three-point turn, she had put the car in reverse instead of drive, she said. </p><p>It is a mistake she had made before with the Tesla gearshift. <br>The car had zipped backward, tipping over an embankment and into a pond. </p><p>By now, whenever anyone dies in a Tesla, the natural question to ask is whether or not the Tesla killed them, or helped kill them. </p><p>How do you put a car into reverse instead of drive? <br>The online manual for the Model X, has a diagram showing how you put the car in gear</p><p>It shows an interface on the Tesla's touchscreen. </p><p>It has no label for either "Drive" or "Reverse"; the blue arrows, judging by the diagrams in the rest of the manual, are not part of the display, but the manual's indication of how the driver is supposed to move their finger. <br>The text explains: </p><p>When you press the brake pedal when parked, the drive mode strip displays on one side of the touchscreen. Use the drive mode strip to shift Model X: swipe up for Drive, swipe down for Reverse or touch the P for Park or N for Neutral. The drive mode strip is always available on the touchscreen when you touch Controls.</p><p>Even by Tesla's ridiculous design standards, this is a shockingly bad control system. </p><p>There is no stable convention around whether swiping up means "go up" or "go down"; <br>notoriously, Microsoft and Apple have completely opposite theories about which way makes sense. </p><p>And that dispute is only about manipulating text on your computer screen, not setting a two-and-a-half-ton vehicle into physical motion. </p><p>Tesla's choice of direction<br>—flicking the little car-glyph upward, as if you're pushing the car itself, rather than flicking it down, as if you're pulling the landscape so the car moves forward<br>—is not only the opposite of the way you advance along the road on a touchscreen in Google Maps, it's the opposite of how you drop a normal automatic-transmission car into Drive with a physical shifter. </p><p>The wrist and shoulder rotate down and back, and the car goes forward. </p><p>Presumably this had something to do with why Angela Chao had previously had trouble shifting the Tesla into the correct gear. </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Elon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Elon</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a>'s design team, committed to his adolescent theories of futurism<br>—and to moving as many controls as possible from physical buttons, knobs, or levers to the much cheaper touchscreen, even in a car that starts at $79,900<br>—built a system that runs contrary to a driver's muscle memory of how to put a car in gear. </p><p>It's also theoretically possible that the Tesla put itself in gear. </p><p>The Model X includes a beta feature, which a driver would need to specifically activate, in which the car scans its surroundings and makes a guess on its own as to whether it should shift into Drive or Reverse: </p><p>When Auto Shift out of Park is enabled, Model X is designed to automatically select Drive or Reverse. The instrument panel displays the selected drive mode when the driver's door is closed and seat belt is buckled.</p><p>To override the selection, press the brake pedal and use the drive mode strip on touchscreen to shift into your desired drive mode (Drive, Reverse, Park; see Shift Using the Touchscreen).</p><p>Confirm the drive mode selection and follow the instructions on the instrument panel before you press the accelerator.</p><p>With your car rolling backwards out of control, simply turn your attention to the touchscreen<br>—because there is no physical button to feel for <br>—stab your finger at the letter P, hit it precisely, and hold it there. </p><p>What could be easier? </p><p><a href="https://indignity.substack.com/p/swipe-down-to-die" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">indignity.substack.com/p/swipe</span><span class="invisible">-down-to-die</span></a></p>
Tâi Siáu-káu 台痟狗 ㄊㄇㄉ 🇳🇫 台灣國<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Gerd_Brodowski" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Gerd_Brodowski</span></a></span> <br>Where was there "violence"? The intruders' speedboat capsized, and the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Taiwan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Taiwan</span></a> 🇳🇫 <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Coast_Guard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Coast_Guard</span></a> attempted to resuscitate the two who <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/drowned" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>drowned</span></a>. 🤷🏽♂️</p>
AI6YR Ben<p>Second <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/death" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>death</span></a> in Vermont flooding. Man <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/drowned" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>drowned</span></a> in his own home. <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/VTwx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VTwx</span></a> <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-drowns-home-vermonts-1st-recorded-flooding-death-rcna94274" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-d</span><span class="invisible">rowns-home-vermonts-1st-recorded-flooding-death-rcna94274</span></a></p>
Druid 🏴<p>BBC News: Tryweryn: The stories behind drowned village Capel Celyn</p><p><a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Tryweryn" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Tryweryn</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/CapelCelyn" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CapelCelyn</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/CofiwchDryweryn" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CofiwchDryweryn</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/drowned" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>drowned</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/flooded" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>flooded</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Cymru" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Cymru</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Wales" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Wales</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-64799911" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-647999</span><span class="invisible">11</span></a></p>
Druid 🏴<p>BBC News: <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Tryweryn" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Tryweryn</span></a>: The man who bombed a dam to save a village</p><p><a href="https://toot.wales/tags/CapelCelyn" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CapelCelyn</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/CofiwchDryweryn" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CofiwchDryweryn</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Drowned" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Drowned</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/NeverForget" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NeverForget</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Cymru" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Cymru</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Wales" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Wales</span></a></p><p>BBC News - Tryweryn: The man who bombed a dam to save a village<br /><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-64560239" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-645602</span><span class="invisible">39</span></a></p>
Jennifer Ebeling<p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Vss365" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vss365</span></a> (<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Gardener" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gardener</span></a>'s version)</p><p>Have you heard of "Kill them with <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Kindness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kindness</span></a>?" Georgia asked from the <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Potting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Potting</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Bench" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bench</span></a>.</p><p>Unsure what was coming next, Ava nodded.</p><p>"Well, this big ol' <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Jade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jade</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Plant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plant</span></a> almost <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Drowned" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Drowned</span></a> because Missy watered it every day when Jane was sick. Now I get to do CPR to try & save it. <br>It's like I always say: If you're going to <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/CODDLE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CODDLE</span></a> something, make sure you know what you're doing first. No sense missing the mark."</p><p>Georgia had a plant <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Analogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Analogy</span></a> for every situation. <br>It got old.</p>
Linda Sgoluppi Artist<p>It is deeply offensive when the PM and Home Secretary stand in Parliament expressing sorrow for lives of migrants drowned in the Channel. They are responsible for ensuring there is no other safe routes for people to arrive here or to apply to come. Patel also did the same in Parliament. Where is the humanity. the decency? The RNLI is right to call for Braverman to resign. She needs to go Resign or be sacked. <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Braverman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Braverman</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Sunak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sunak</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Patel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Patel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Migrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Migrants</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Drowned" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Drowned</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/GTTO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GTTO</span></a></p>
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