Electric vehicles sure do seem safe and effective. Or am I mixing my propaganda?
According to social media user Xian Ke, a Google-operated electric bus suffered a power loss on Monday morning while attempting to scale one of San Francisco’s many hills.
The out-of-control bus then rolled down the hill and crashed into nine vehicles. [emphasis, links added]
Monday on X, formerly Twitter, Ke posted a 10-second clip of the crash’s aftermath [see below].
From the video, it appeared that the bus had driven two vehicles onto a wide sidewalk. One of the vehicles looked wedged between a tree and a concrete or metal pole.
The side of the gray bus proudly featured the words “100% Battery Electric.”
Ke explained that the video and incident description came from a friend.
“Some local journalists need to be on this: ‘A Google bus lost its power while going up the hill and rolled back and hit 9 cars this morning outside of my place’ (Castro district, SF). Video from my friend below,” Ke posted.
Some local journalists need to be on this: “A google bus lost its power while going up the hill and roll back and hit 9 cars this morning outside of my place” (Castro district, SF). Video from my friend below. pic.twitter.com/B8T8K2RCD2
— Xian Ke (@xianke) November 6, 2023
The California Bay Area news outlet KTVU reported that the crash resulted in one hospitalization and multiple damaged vehicles.
According to that same report, however, the crash’s cause “remains under investigation.” Indeed, “[neither] the SFPD nor Google explained what caused the collision.”
Fancy that. Neither Google nor the police would confirm what an eyewitness reported: The electric bus lost power.
Good thing the bus did not write an anti-white manifesto and then murder Christians. In that case, we wouldn’t know about it until the bus’s manifesto leaked seven months later.
Even the KTVU story seemed subtly calculated to protect the EV narrative. In the first line of that story, the word “electric” appeared in quotation marks, as if that part of the story somehow remained in doubt.
And when did Google get into the transportation business?
In any case, the reaction on social media was predictable.
Yay for green energy!!! Destructively eco-friendly!
— Colton Weeks🍊🗣🗣 (@CMWeeks) November 6, 2023
Lololol electric brakes are fun when you lose electricity.
— Helicopter Pilot 🇺🇸 (@VTOL_Penguin) November 6, 2023
The electric vehicle issue has always struck me as simple. If you want one, purchase one. I wish you well.
But the people who push those vehicles with relentless ferocity also believe that we can alter the climate by giving more power to people like themselves.
In short, they lie.
And they enlist others — tech companies, establishment media, and even local police — to amplify the lie.
Thus, when they demand that we all switch to EVs, their demand alone amounts to mathematical proof that we must not.
h/t nz
Read more at MSN
Stories like this just warm my heart.
Google run staff buses around the Bay Area to their HQ in San Jose. This helps reduce traffic on Highway 101, which is otherwise quite jammed. Staff get to work while on the bus to work, with onboard WiFi…
Will any of the 9 damaged vehicles be replaced with EV’s?
There are many valid criticisms about electric busses. This incident is not one of them. Fossil fuel busses have also lost power on hills and not rolled down the hill. The real problem in this incident is a failure of engineering. Whether powered by batteries, diesel, or pulled by horses, a bus should have adequate brakes. This clearly wasn’t the case in this incident. The engineers who designed this bus should be reassigned to cleaning toilets.
True, engineers that designed this bus may have used brakes “off the shelf” without regard to the weight of the batteries. If you want to stop a rhinoceros, don’t use a skeet gun.