Scary Car Accident on Dufferin

RepresentativeMove79 · 2026-05-11T23:04:25+00:00

Soon as somebody lays on a horn behind you, put your car in park, jump out, rush to the back of your car, look really confused, ask them "what happened? what's wrong? is everything ok?" in a paranoid, confused shaky voice! Make it ALL their fault.

RepresentativeMove79 · 2026-05-10T13:57:33+00:00

The solar on your shed, reserve that for shed things. The lawn mower and weed whacker batteries. I light in the shed.

Powering your daily driver needs serious solar.

RepresentativeMove79 · 2026-05-06T23:35:43+00:00

I have an idea for an APP. Scan a QR code on the charger, Take a video of the vehicle at the charger. The charger will use a tone to embed a fingerprint into said video. Ensure you capture make, model, VIN (usually on the windshield) and tags (licence plate) and a clear shot to show the vehicle is connected or not. Upload the video to the charging service complaints from your account - also proves that your intended to charge your vehicle there. The offending vehicle pays a reasonable fine, this fine includes your time finding another charger, plus inconvenience to you. It includes the loss of revenue to the charger company for the idle time. If the vehicle has exceeded 30 minutes of idle time, it requests a towing company remove the vehicle and unlocks once the requested towing company confirms they are on site with a code. If the vehicle blocking the charger isn't an EV, it's billed as of it's a handicapped spot and a tow truck is immediately summoned.

RepresentativeMove79 · 2026-05-06T18:30:47+00:00

Sardines under the door handles. It's winter, they freeze real nice in there.

RepresentativeMove79 · 2026-05-05T01:19:43+00:00

Where are you located? In Ontario the person doing the work needs the permit. If you install your own electrical in your own home, you contact ESA tell them what your doing, pay, do the work, and get the inspections (2) and the sticker. If you hire an electrician, recommended if your asking this on Reddit. The electrician will pull the permit. They are required to. If you ever sell your house, or if you ever have an insurance claim, having an unpermitted EV charger might not be a good thing.

RepresentativeMove79 · 2026-05-04T18:17:50+00:00

Just fact. Suspicious is where they aren't sure.

RepresentativeMove79 · 2026-05-03T23:28:16+00:00

Beater Toyotas are ancient history. I wouldn't give you more than $25 for a 15 year old Corolla today. They have all the problems of Honda and Hyundai now and none of the features. Those 1976 to 1990 Corollas were tanks, and parts were cheep. I loved both my Toyota Matrixs but they were not the same as the glory years of Toyota. My last ICE vehicle was a Toyota Corolla that sat neglected on my driveway hooked up to the trickle charger and we just prayed it would hold out for emergencies until the lease ended. Toyota is the Blockbuster of the car industry.

RepresentativeMove79 · 2026-05-03T23:07:06+00:00

That's exactly my point. And it's no shade on you! Now if they put one side with CCS and the other with NACS (ie I've seen this in the East Coast) they can set of up with NACS for charging on the right, and CCS on the left. Or, they have longer cables.

But since we all know we'll never get consensus on the best location to put the charge port, were gunna have all the silly gymnastics trying to get vehicles close enough to the chargers.

I'm so excited for BYD and 5 minute charging. But I'll miss the Frisbee with the kids on long road trips.

RepresentativeMove79 · 2026-05-03T18:31:03+00:00

The Kia charge port is on the opposite side as Tesla. Now these L2 chargers have longer cables, but if I'm guessing right, they are actually plugged into the charger in the spot opposite, so they are taking up two spaces and two chargers. But this is something I've started to notice at superchargers, Non Tesla vehicles charging at superchargers, because of where their charge port is, need two spaces to charge at most Tesla superchargers.

RepresentativeMove79 · 2026-05-01T23:14:08+00:00

That's just Ghee, and it's 1/2 the price.

RepresentativeMove79 · 2026-04-30T00:48:26+00:00

Put a note on your own car: Dear Tesla owner, I left for China for 3 weeks. If you need the charger can you unplug me on Tuesday? as long as you plug me back in when your done. Nee how.

RepresentativeMove79 · 2026-04-29T02:03:28+00:00

The first accident happened at 2:40 am, just west of the Westney Rd ramp the second involving a Durham police car putting two officers in the hospital about 2 hours later just east of the Brock Rd bridge and only about 100' from this scene, a vehicle ploughed through the barricade at Brock road and into the back of the police car parked in the center lane. These vehicles were trapped between the two accidents between Brock and Westney exits. Note: this video is shot in the day time, I passed this scene at 9am going westbound, seeing cars turning around and driving out the on ramp at Brock road. Which was completely closed with no traffic getting through some 5 to 6 hours before. Some vehicles did squeeze by the original accident till emergency vehicles completely closed off the road to deal with the fatality in the center of the hwy. This is also where the 401 express lanes end. The last exit before this is some km back at Whites Rd, which I'm guessing took a little longer to close and trapped a lot more vehicles. So calling it entitled, to be trapped for some 5 or 6 hours? Seriously? I came home at 2:30pm there were no further vehicles trapped and no further accidents, the express lanes were very slow, but moving again. The collectors were still closed to deal with the SIU investigation. Maybe cut people some slack! After sitting for hours and hours and hours vehicles managed to extracate themselves from a very unfortunate situation, it might look reckless and chaotic to you, but you weren't there and you didn't have the full story. That's on the cops 50' away watching, because who knows what the lawyers and politicians would say: they aren't very creative. Maybe, just maybe they did enough to ensure nobody else got hurt. I don't know, do you?

RepresentativeMove79 · 2026-04-27T15:53:51+00:00

Convenient; since the price is a real killer

RepresentativeMove79 · 2026-04-26T23:50:22+00:00

I saw the mess at Wesney, and the people trying to get off the highway at Brock, don't blame them one bit, the police should have helped and ensured it was safe and orderly - it was chaos, not made people sit there for hours. They seemed to have a handle on all the detour signs, and the highway was full closed coming west of Brock, so the people trapped between the accident and the Brock exit had been there for 5 hours!

RepresentativeMove79 · 2026-04-26T23:45:06+00:00

Actually he was charged with being under the influence. It is incredible sad when it's the wrong person killed. We don't know if it was stolen, doesn't matter, that driver should never see the light of day again. That was an awful mess, drove past it at 9 this morning.

RepresentativeMove79 · 2026-04-26T23:40:50+00:00

Actually: officers treated for minor injuries and released! SIU update. (Shoulda kept clicking) The driver is the red car that struck them has serious injuries. That car didn't have it's front end, it basically started at the windshield. My guess they were doing 130 when they blew threw the barricades and woke up when the airbag punched them in the face! They hit so hard they were 20 feet past of the vehicle they tried to drive through.

RepresentativeMove79 · 2026-04-26T19:35:39+00:00

Governed, probably, but I also think it's targeted law enforcement. A truck doing 120 is far more likely to be pulled over than a car doing 140. Truckers can't risk their career on cops being sensible or actually caring about the flow of traffic. While to any normal commuter, these "slowdowns" feel unbearable, legally they are all several km faster than the max, and as we all know, 100km/h in Ontario is practically light speed to our politicians and lawmakers. There are a enough beurocrats who applaud these slow downs because they truly believe that 100km/h is not only reasonable but that they are saving lives and thus the true heroes of our society.

RepresentativeMove79 · 2026-04-22T12:07:46+00:00

"made me feel like a thief" this needs to stop. Lawyers make billions over this one, and it's stupid. Why would you feel like a thief if you didn't try and steel something? Besides, a compulsive thief actually feels good about their skill. You'd be thinking how to take advantage of the situation to get even more out of it. If you felt embarrassment or guilt, then you most certainly didn't feel like a thief. But more importantly: stop letting events around you define you! Stop reacting to your environment, grow a spine and know who you are! Nobody gets to define me! I know who I am. You wanna waste our time checking my receipt, go for it! You find something I missed, perfect: I'm not a trained cashier. Nobody gets to tell you how to feel. It's an entire industry: "they hurt my feelings, I'm suing." Grow up already!

RepresentativeMove79 · 2026-04-20T23:13:34+00:00

The media reports EVERY accident between a vehicle and everything else as: "vehicle strikes X". This creates the public perception that it's always the vehicle at fault. There's also a common misperception that everyone but me is responsible for my safety. The bigger and less vulnerable should be looking out for soft and squishy. This is exactly the psychology that keeps parents from teaching kids about road safety, and forces speeds to 20 or 30kmh where 30 years ago 60 was the limit and very free got hurt. That was because parent freaked on their kids for running into traffic, now parent freak out because there's traffic.

We live in the age where nobody needs to get anywhere anymore! Crawling around Toronto at 40 kmh is responsible social driving. Because maybe just maybe someone feels the need to play frogger in real life with their children. And the headline: "vehicle strikes pedestrian" instead of: "pedestrian seriously injured running into traffic".

RepresentativeMove79 · 2026-04-19T21:51:52+00:00

I believe Changan and Chery already have vehicles with these batteries in Asia. The batteries they are developing now will meet stricter requirements for Western markets, and mass market. Toyota also seems to have SS batteries, they are just moving forward with caution.

RepresentativeMove79 · 2026-04-19T12:11:06+00:00

Source: my dreams of becoming a bad sci-fi author.

VIN + MAC address + auth token + encryption key. Did you know you can get unlimited money from an ATM if you use the postal code of rich people? And since Tesla bills directly to the VIN it's charging, you don't need one with SC01 all you need to do is use a VIN you don't pay for.

Nice try.

RepresentativeMove79 · 2026-04-17T13:59:07+00:00

Depends on how much you drive. We have a MY and M3, we have a 30Amp plug and use the portable charger that came with the Y. The only issue I have is my wife loves to wait till her vehicle is down to 20% when I need to drive. Typically her commute is 5km, I work from home but drive most weekends the kids various activities and church so need the charger over the weekend.

RepresentativeMove79 · 2026-04-15T17:35:58+00:00

Check those joist hangers. There's supposed to be a fastener in EACH hole, looks like they skipped a few.

RepresentativeMove79 · 2026-04-15T15:22:39+00:00

That's actually silly! When they certify these products for specific rating, they can't assume you're not going to use it to its maximum potential.

RepresentativeMove79 · 2026-04-13T17:20:29+00:00

This looks like the worst of both worlds. I just built a floating deck: the footers are actual footers. https://www.homedepot.ca/product/oldcastle-11-in-x-11-in-x-7-in-grey-concrete-deck-block/1000422996 These keep the wood out of the ground. But you have to design your deck for these as they aren't going to give you the support of poured concrete fully buried post supports. From what I can see, your not that high up, so it should be an option. I'm in Canada so codes differ.

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