Story about how protests outside Tesla dealerships have been happening organically around the US
"... I didn't see anything happening (here) and thought I'd show up and maybe take a picture of myself... then there were a dozen people there... and a dozen more..."
As anti-ads go, this is epic!
Thousands of people are ditching Tesla. Here’s one of them with a message you can see from space.
Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK
Somebody is mass mobilizing.
https://actionnetwork.org/forms/teslatakedown-national-mobilizing-call
Tesla Autopilot drives into Wile E Coyote fake road wall in camera vs lidar test
https://blog.lidarnews.com/tesla-autopilot-vs-lidar-vehicle/
#tesla #autopilot #selfdrivingcar #selfdrivingcars #supercruise #selfdrivinghell #selfdriving #lidar #NotTheBee #NotTheOnion
Tesla Autopilot drives into Wile E Coyote fake road wall in camera vs lidar test
https://electrek.co/2025/03/16/tesla-autopilot-drives-into-wall-camera-vs-lidar-test/
No I don't know who that guy is or care what you think about him.
Just a reminder:
Elon Musk didn’t create Tesla, he bought it.
Elon Musk didn’t create SpaceX, he bought it.
Elon Musk didn’t create Twitter, he bought it.
Elon Musk didn’t create the Presidency, he bought it.
Rolling Stone: Outgoing Broadband Chief Issues Stark Warning Against Elon Musk
“Stranding all or part of rural America with worse internet so that we can make the world’s richest man even richer is yet another in a long line of betrayals by Washington,” wrote Evan Feinman
The Brits seem to be more in fan of replacing bus station signs... #Tesla
Americans, on the other hand...
https://bsky.app/profile/garvinstorytelling.bsky.social/post/3lkhoaojepc2y
Canadian Tesla protest signs are so... polite. No swastikas, no mention of Nazis, no F words. 
“Sculptor Chavis Mármol has never owned a car, but that’s never inhibited his drive. Earlier this month, the 42-year-old Mexico City-based artist (who travels largely by bicycle) dropped a nine-ton replica of an Olmec head onto the roof of a blue Tesla Model 3 in a crushing display posted to Instagram on March 11. Mármol told Hyperallergic that his intention was “to satirize the Tesla brand and its creator.””
Tesla Autopilot drives into "Wile E Coyote" fake road wall.
"While most companies developing self-driving technologies have been using a mix of sensors (cameras, radar, lidar, and ultrasonic), Tesla insists on only using cameras."
https://electrek.co/2025/03/16/tesla-autopilot-drives-into-wall-camera-vs-lidar-test/
Oh Lord, we should have known if we didn't. The Wankpanzer is basically an Apartheid era enforcement truck, except with sheet metal falling off.
#Musk and his fans aren't even proper fascists, they're parodies of the fascists they *want* to be. 
The intention should be taken completely seriously, and we should also laugh in their faces.
Onward, #TeslaTakedown!
#tesla #cybertruck #clustertruck
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/03/tesla-cybertruck-protests-vandalism-elon-musk.html
"Decades later, the Tesla Cybertruck, lately a prime target for protesters demonstrating their dislike of CEO Elon Musk, blurs the boundaries between the battlefield and the public street. When Tesla released the Cybertruck in 2023, its dramatic style polarized the public. Popular theories abounded about its unusual look. Many speculated that its inspiration had come from spaceships of science fiction. In discussing the car’s aesthetic early on, Musk referenced cyberpunk and Blade Runner, a film that features sleek metallic vehicles, though with rounded silhouettes designed for aerodynamic speed. He’s also used the phrase “The future should look like the future”—a reference, his biographer Walter Isaacson said, to a question his son Saxon asked him once: “Why doesn’t the future look like the future?”
Whether or not this was intentional, the Cybertruck’s harsh, sharp edges remind us, instead, of something from the past: the larger armored personnel vehicles that patrolled streets throughout Musk’s youth in apartheid South Africa. In the 1980s, the Casspir proliferated across the country, moving from the battlefield and onto the streets. Initially improvised as a way to circumvent international sanctions against the apartheid government, the Casspir mine-resistant ambush protected vehicle was invented and produced domestically. It was a rugged all-terrain vehicle intended to withstand gunfire and mine explosions. It could drive up to 60 mph and be modified to add artillery functions.
Eventually, the Casspir was deployed to patrol townships, the residential neighborhoods where many Black South Africans lived (...) By the 1990s, the Casspir had become an iconic global symbol of apartheid oppression."
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/03/tesla-cybertruck-protests-vandalism-elon-musk.html
"Là, clairement c'est fini" : #Tesla est rejeté par les entreprises #françaises à cause d'Elon #Musk
Franceinfo est allé à la rencontre des professionnels qui refusent de constituer leur flotte de véhicules électriques avec des Tesla. En #Europe, de plus en plus d’autocollants apparaissent sur les modèles de la marque et ils sont limpides : "J'ai acheté cette voiture avant qu'#ElonMusk ne devienne fou".
https://www.lesnumeriques.com/voiture-electrique/la-clairement-c-est-fini-tesla-est-rejete-par-les-entreprises-francaises-a-cause-d-elon-musk-n234235.html
My favourite proposed demonstration against Musk & Tesla is this:
Enter a Tesla dealership, engage the dealer(s) in an extended discussion of the car (& EVs more generally, perhaps), maybe even take the car for a test drive;
then after wasting an hour or so politely inform them that you're going away to think about it;
Rinse and repeat;
Tie them up in a way they can hardly complain about, but stops them actually selling any cars....
Sounds like a good weekend project?
Arno roule 
