“Neighbors are brought to tears” according to local news that reports a Tesla was driving northbound directly at two 16-year old kids southbound on a scooter, brutally crashing into them.

Two teenage boys on an electric scooter were critically injured Tuesday when they were struck by a Tesla car in the city of Orange. The collision happened just after 2 p.m. on Hewes Street at Via Lardo Avenue, Orange police Lt. Phil McMullin said.

A witness says the scooter was in plain view of everyone from far away, and yet the Tesla continued driving towards them at a high rate of speed until impact, throwing them high into the air.

What’s particularly unsettling from initial reports is an apparent disconnect between what multiple witnesses plainly observed—kids visibly approaching southbound on a scooter—and the northbound Tesla failure to slow down or take any evasive action. While teenagers traveling the wrong direction on a scooter creates an initial hazard, the witness accounts indicate a complete absence of defensive driving by the Tesla driver.

The violent nature of the impact—throwing the teenagers high into the air and leaving them critically injured—suggests minimal or no braking occurred. This incident raises serious questions about driver attention and the potential role of driver assistance technologies. Tesla’s Autopilot system has previously demonstrated detection difficulties with cross-traffic and smaller road users, including children, which warrants thorough investigation in this case.

The disturbing contrast between what was clearly visible to bystanders and the Tesla’s failure to respond demands both immediate police investigation and broader examination of how driver assistance systems perform in similar scenarios. This disconnect is precisely what has left neighborhood witnesses distressed and demanding answers.

This comes just days after an eerily similar crash in Northern California, as a Tesla critically injured a teen on a scooter.

And both of these bring to mind high-profile recent tests by an ex-NASA engineer who demonstrated why and how Tesla technology has serious blindness issues that put children in harms way.

I frequently read DimSumDaily for its regular coverage of Tesla crashes in Hong Kong. This new one is especially interesting. The Tesla apparently suddenly veered into a taxi next to it, crashing so violently that it seriously injured a passenger.

…footage shows a taxi, carrying a male passenger, being violently struck on its left side by a Tesla that swerved into the lane. The rear seat passenger, who was not wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash, was thrown from his seat and flew across the cabin, colliding with the right-side window, which shattered upon impact.

It has symptoms of Autopilot error that investigators will have to dig into. First, the sudden violence of the course change seems inhuman. It’s not a side swipe, but a total crash. Second, the Tesla driver reported a wrist injury from his vehicle abruptly slamming into the one next to it.

The 47-year-old taxi passenger suffered bleeding from his forehead and the right side of his face, while the 56-year-old taxi driver, identified as Mr Koo, experienced chest pain and was taken to hospital. The Tesla driver, a 47-year-old man named Mr Zhang, sustained a wrist injury and was also sent for medical treatment.

The incident occurred in the early hours of last Thursday (27th March) around 4am. The taxi was travelling along Sports Road in Wan Chai when, upon reaching the intersection with Wong Nai Chung Road, it was suddenly struck by the Tesla, which was heading towards Happy Valley, pushing the taxi into the roadside barrier.

Federal Action Removes the IT Security Officials Who Protect Data from Breaches

A Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) were removed from their positions after attempting to prevent what they deemed a dangerous breach of federal systems by DOGE.

…the DOGE workers obtained the access and then placed two of the IT officials who had resisted them on administrative leave and under investigation, the people said,” according to the NYT report. The agency’s CIO and CISO are reportedly under investigation for their “workplace behavior.” When contacted by Ars today, the Interior Department said, “We are working to execute the President’s directive…

This situation appears comparable to investigating security personnel for performing their designated duties. The official response defends the breach by referencing presidential directives as absolute and unassailable, without addressing professional duty, legal frameworks, or constitutional implications regarding insider threats to federal data.

The language used in these communications suggests very obviously concerning implications for institutional checks and balances, given two “Chiefs” were just removed as if subordinates.

Federal Action Disappears a Computer Science Professor

In a separate incident, an Indiana professor of computer science, known for his cryptography work, has seemingly disappeared after government intervention. His university was instructed to rapidly remove all evidence of his employment. The highly unusual and unexplained directives were reported after neighbors witnessed federal agents raiding his residence weeks later.

A prominent computer scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy, and cybersecurity has gone incommunicado, had his professor profile, email account, and phone number removed by his employer, Indiana University, and had his homes raided by the FBI. No one knows why.

No indictment has been issued, no evidence presented, nor has any crime been alleged. The erasure orders suggest a coordinated, federally imposed disappearance.

Federal Action Disappears Hundreds of People in Massachusetts, Alarming Governor

In a third incident, reported by the Boston Herald and highlighted by the governor of Massachusetts, a student near Boston was apprehended on the street by six masked individuals in plainclothes, forced into an unmarked van, and transported to a prison in Louisiana—explicitly violating a court order requiring her to remain in Massachusetts.

Bay State Gov. Maura Healey says that the administration has not been forthcoming with details or the legal reasoning behind recent high profile arrests in Massachusetts. […] Ozturk is currently housed in an immigration detention facility in Louisiana. She was moved there by federal authorities after a hearing in Boston. The judge in that hearing issued an court order to keep her in Massachusetts following her arrest, but she was already moved out of the state. […] Healey said she also hasn’t heard a response from the federal government regarding their widely publicized apparent arrest of 370 people during a series of statewide sweeps conducted earlier this month. Not only did Trump’s border czar Tom Homan fail to meet her and discuss his plans for a largescale law enforcement operation in her state, his agency hasn’t provided her administration with any real information about who they took, Healey said. […] “I think what’s concerning, first of all, is we don’t know anything about who they actually took. There are numbers offered but we’ve seen no substantiation. What is also true, is they admit they took a number of people as ‘collateral damage,’ and these are people who are working here, paying taxes here, living here, raising kids here, who had no crimes,” Healey said.

It is worth noting that Ozturk was working on child safety issues, pursuing a doctorate in child study and human development.

Maryland police say the ambulance was carrying a patient to the hospital when a Tesla crashed into the back of it. Another ambulance had to be called to take the patient.

Ambulance Transporting Crash Victim Rear-Ended By Tesla In Leonardtown: …crash occurred at approximately 2:58 p.m. at the intersection of Point Lookout Road and Hollywood Road. According to officials, A68 was struck from behind while transporting the patient…