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Wreckonize: An Idea To Improve The Safety Of Emergency Workers, + A Pitch To Elon Musk & Tesla

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Published on December 9th, 2019 |

by Johnna Crider

Wreckonize: An Idea To Improve The Safety Of Emergency Workers, + A Pitch To Elon Musk & Tesla

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December 9th, 2019 by Johnna Crider

I would like to share a story by Twitter user Wreckonize, who recently reached out to me. Before I dive into his story and idea, I will give you a bit of background information on him. He is a wreck operator (Wreck-Ops) who is concerned about the loss of lives of emergency personnel — ranging from police, firefighters, and paramedics to wrecker operators — due to drivers not paying attention and also not following road safety protocols. He’s survived all four times that he’s been struck by drivers not paying attention, but that’s a lot of strikes. He also told me that every day at least one or two people die in this field.

He shared a 17-minute and 20-second video with me that he made for Elon Musk in hopes that Elon would see it and maybe be a part of a solution that he has been working on. The video isn’t on YouTube so I am analyzing it here. You can also watch the video for yourself. The overall solution would be an app on your phone, or even in your Tesla, that would alert drivers in the area that there is some type of accident or event going on up ahead and you should utilize the four emergency protocols.

The 4 Emergency Protocols
Wrecokinoze points out that many people only know about one emergency protocol, despite there actually being four of them.

Slow down and move over to the right (left lane anomaly)
Slow down and move over to the left (right lane anomaly)
Slow down and move over to either left or right (center lane anomaly)
Slow down and stop

Sure, people see emergency personnel on the road and usually do slow down and move over, but there are those moments before the police are able to section off the area of an accident or establish a “Kill Zone” (an area that the emergency workers need to work in). Sometimes, before these Kill Zones are established, workers can get struck by passing vehicles. Having an app that would alert drivers ahead of time that there is something going on before they can even see it — and/or alerting smart vehicles from within the car — could prevent deaths.

“I’m coming to you with this because we’re getting killed,” he says in the video in which he is addressing Elon Musk. He then elaborates on the problem: People driving by these areas are not paying attention or somehow miscalculate the distance between their car and an emergency worker.

The problem isn’t without potential solutions. Wreckonize told me over the phone that, for a while, he had given up inventing, but Elon Musk has inspired him again. When he was younger, he made his own prototypes of electric cars, and was often ridiculed by his peers. Enter in Elon Musk, who despite ridicule is successful at inventing things that are “out there” or unusual or just too crazy to be real but end up being very real, practical, relevant to today’s needs, and superior to existing products or business as usual.

“Thanks to you and your inspiration, I started inventing again.”
— Wreckonize to Elon Musk

His idea in this case is an invention that will enable better communications about emergency situations. He has been working on his idea for a while and it’s a way for vehicles to recognize when another one has stalled or has had some type of issue. This idea is based on the resistance factor — if people had a proper resistance factor, they may realize that a lane is about to be shut down and that a person is stepping out of a vehicle.

“It’s about getting the message ahead of time”
— Wreckonize

As part of this pitch, Wreckonize told a story of how two Tesla vehicles were able to see the cones he’d set out while on a job and then easily avoided the defined kill zones. He says that not only did the Tesla vehicles slow down, but they moved over to the next lane to avoid the lane being shut down. When you have cars doing this, others behind them will “wreckonize” the “slow down and move over” protocol.

Often, these kill zones are not yet defined, and this is when it is the most dangerous for emergency workers. When people are driving 60 miles an hour on the highway and don’t see this area defined, they may not realize — or they may realize too late — that there is a kill zone ahead and they need to move over. Wreckonize’s idea is a communication system that tells drivers they are about to enter a kill zone and need to slow down, move over, or slow down and stop.

The proposed name comes from the idea of recognizing wreck operations going on in the roadway as well as other emergency personnel.
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Johnna Crider Johnna Crider is a Baton Rouge artist, gem and mineral collector, and Tesla shareholder who believes in Elon Musk and Tesla. Elon Musk advised her in 2018 to “Believe in Good.”

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Tesla, GM, & Other EV Companies Seek US Tax Credit Expansion

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Published on December 13th, 2019 |

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Tesla, GM, & Other EV Companies Seek US Tax Credit Expansion

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December 13th, 2019 by Johnna Crider

MarketWatch reports that Tesla, General Motors, and others in the electric vehicle ecosystem are seeking expansion of the US federal tax credit for EVs.

The tax credit currently starts phasing out when an automaker reaches 200,000 plug-in vehicle sales in the US (something Tesla achieved multiple quarters before any other automaker, and GM achieved second). Tesla buyers will no longer be eligible for any tax credits starting January 1, 2020, under the current system.

The proposal, under the Driving America Forward Act, raises the sales limit to 600,000 instead of 200,000 for each automaker, and the tax credit for buyers changed to $7,000. The Tesla tax credit phaseout under the current system was as follows:

The MarketWatch article shares with us that Tesla, GM, and other electric vehicle manufacturers “have a role in the scramble around a possible tax package with so-called ‘tax extenders,’ as they could score an expansion for a key EV credit. If Tesla and the other EV makers land this credit, it would be a win for anyone purchasing an EV.”

The Driving America Forward Act was introduced by Senator Debbie Stabenow [D-MI]. Some Republicans (known for ties to the oil industry), such as Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming, contend that “it’s time to pull the plug” on EV subsidies (despite over a century of subsidies for oil). He is pushing the Fairness for Every Driver Act instead.

This “fairness” act isn’t really all that fair toward EV drivers since it proposes a user fee on alternative fuel vehicles used in the United States. Why should people have to be punished for being early adopters of EVs and this leaders in cutting pollution and CO2 emissions? If this act was truly fair, it would charge a user fee for gasoline vehicles and perhaps some type of carbon tax that would fund initiatives that help clean up pollution not just in the air but also in rivers, oceans, and other areas that are commonly affected. Or the fund could help those with health problems caused by air pollution.

What do you think? Are you ready to call your senator to push for an EV tax credit expansion?
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