Electric Vehicles are not green and can’t run clean, and even in their wildest dream, they never could. There isn’t enough of what we need to get there from here, and “there” isn’t even green. And while that might play for some, not everyone wants to hear it so perhaps this will have more impact.
Spokane, Washington, made news after some (presumably bigoted) hooligans marred up a pride mural with tire (skid) marks. The devout are beside themselves with anger and guilt, “condemning these vile acts on no uncertain terms.”
Here is a picture of the vile acts.
I think they doth protest too much, which provides an interesting parallel to the point of this missive. It’s not about the sin of pride, or how it is displayed, or that the police arrested four suspects and charged at least one with a felony count of malicious mischief. Look at the marks again. Felony? Really? Are you planning to defrock him and have him excommunicated from Spokane? No, this is about how the company that likely rented them the scooters that did the deplorable deed responded.
Electric scooters, that is.
In response to the incident, Lime implemented a “no go zone” over the crosswalk. Lime vehicles “aren’t authorized to travel in no go zones,” which it marks with red shading on its app. Entering a “no go zone” will cause a Lime vehicle to “gradually come to a stop,” according to its website, forcing a rider to walk their scooter until it is outside the zone.
Assuming you think they even want us driving anything but EV scooters—which are responsible for a rising number of deaths in apartment fires (EV batteries like to start fires)—the technology to shut off your vehicle exists, and if yours is connected to the Cloud, which most new vehicles, especially Electric ones, are, this is your transportation future.
Your right to travel and right to privacy – whether a shadow of a penumbra or ensconced in your state constitution (as mine is) be damned.
No-go areas for scooters. They could be anywhere based on the whims of the powerful or their water carriers, and we know how quickly many of them want to carry that water. Amd there’s no limit to the types or quantity of control craved. There is certainly no moral constraint. No constitutional constraint – not up front, at least. Why not just no-go everything everywhere, as the need or desire arises?
COVID taught us a lot about that.
I wonder if Spokane is too woke to accommodate a competing EV scooter rental company (NO No-go Scooter Rentals) that doesn’t do that? And (0r), is anyone in Spokane or anywhere else bothered by this? A private company is certainly entitled to express its values as a feature of its business, but we all know that these values are echoed by the current regime. Did The MAN lean on the scooter rental business, or was it of a character such that there was a desire – an eager willingness to make a public statement during the modern bacchanal month of June to protect the gang colors?
It all makes you want to buy a 1974 Ford F100.
