Volvo Drivers

So good. While riding my bike to the city I just witnessed a great accident.

There’s this house with a driveway right next to a busy roundabout with an effectively blind corner due to shrubs and stuff.

And the woman that owns the Tesla at that house decides to reverse into her driveway, taking her sweet time.

I thought those fuckers could park themselves? There is no way I reverse into that driveway, ever. Nor would anyone with half a brain. It’s a pretty simple risk management situation.

A tradie comes screaming around the corner in his Hilux and runs straight into her.

He will be adjudged to be at fault. But me and the tradie – we know it’s on her.

You can see why these Tesla drivers used to drive Volvos – at some cunning level they knew they were going to end up in crash after crash.

It’s a total mystery why Volvo changed their electric car division’s name to Polestar (sounds like a Scandinavian nightclub for architects). If they had used Volvo they would have stolen all of Tesla’s customers; it’s the same cohort of crash test dummies.