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[–] [email protected] 121 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Rolling coal is the practice of installing a tampering device to pump more diesel into a vehicle’s engine than it can handle, leading it to spew out sooty black clouds of exhaust that pollute the air.

The practice is sometimes used as a form of anti-environmental protest. Coal rollers, or the drivers who engage in the action, may intentionally target Teslas, Priuses or other electric or hybrid vehicles.

Some people's dedication to being an asshole is quite astonishing. Imagine paying money just to be able to spew soot at other people's electric cars.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Some people are here to ~~watch~~ make the world burn.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It's also a practice to used to attack other drivers, pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclist etc by blowing black soot in your face. Its often dangerous because it creates a smoke screen where you can't even see the road.

[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As a person who enjoys clean air I approve of this.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As a person, I approve of this.

[–] UncleStewart 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

As a mammal with lungs I approve.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good, fuck those guys.

I'm not against people having trucks or modifying them for performance or off-roading or whatever, but people who modify their truck for no other reason than to pollute more are nothing but fucking assholes.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It makes me laugh as in the UK a vehicle bellowing smoke due to an old or broken down engine has always been an indicator of someone being broke and unable to fix it upgrade it, these wankers are intentionally making their trucks look like they're skin flints.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The bigger the truck, the more fragile the man.

[–] 768 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's called petromasculinity.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Wait... Ebay is merely a marketplace where people or vendors use the platform to sell their goods.

Shouldn't the individuals be sued?

Or maybe it's because they could be in another country, so they go after the platform itself for allowing such devices to be sold?

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Going after the marketplace is a more efficient strategy than playing whack a mole with individual sellers.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also being a marketplace they do have a duty to make sure that people are not selling illegal items on their platform.

Because if platforms didn't could you imagine how bad the Internet would be for buying things.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't disagree. I am generally in favor of keeping markets on a short leash. As you said, it could be a lot worse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Exactly, keeping markets on a shorter leash is also something I'm generally in favor of

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The correct way would be to go after the buyers

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The war on drugs would like a word.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

As would the RIAA's war on piracy. Despite the exhorbitant fines being handed down, I don't believe they've made any profit from them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a political bomb though. This accomplishes the same end goal and is a strong enough warning to prevent similar markets popping up in the future

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well they are illegal, although enforcement is up to the local jurisdiction. If you try to install these in California for instance, you will have a bad day and they can and will impound your vehicle.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Agreed, but I hope they go after the sellers, too.

[–] You999 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Merketplaces can be held liable for third party sellers merchandise as it's ultimately up to the marketplace to chose what is allowed and prohibited to be sold.

Imagine a marketplace allowed vendors to sell human slaves and the government tells that marketplace that is very much not okay stop it. If that marketplace continues allowing third party vendors to sell human slaves then that marketplace has now also broken the law along with the third party vendor and potentially even the purchaser depending on how the law was written.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I dunno, the article is pretty weak on details. Curious what comes of it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I agree, hitting a couple of these sellers and manufacturers with multi-million dollar fines would be fucking great. They have to go onto X and complain to their drifting buddies that the only way to support Trump would be to bail them out of jail.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd love to see a bounty system for this. If I send my dashcam footage of some asshole rolling coal to the DOT I get a (untaxed) cash reward and the coal-roller gets a large fine and mandatory prius they have to drive for 3 years.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Then they'd realize Priuses actually haul ass from a stop and we'd start to see the first lifted Priuses with mud tires blaring twangy songs about going about life blaring twangy songs in a Prius

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Prius kick ass.

That is all I have to say about that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Just wait till these guys find out about Tesla's!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

now that many are on their second and beyond owners, priuses are mean aggressive little things

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

interesting they're not going after Amazon for the same thing

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Hopefully that's a "Not yet," but we'll see

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Hopefully reviewers that care will step out and share how crazy the company is. They are full-bore disregarding the entirety of the manual suggesting how to legally sell things.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ebay denied the charges in a public statement, saying it has blocked "more than 99.9% the listings for the products cited by the DOJ, including millions of listings each year."

A court will determine if that claim is true, but if yes, EBay as a market platform won't be liable. A 99.9% interception rate would indicate a considerable effort to prevent illicit trades.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

It is true. You will have your listing removed if you try to list something as an emissions defeat device. If you try a second time then your account will be banned.

I listed a carb exempt factory performance ecu made by the vehicle manufacturer and it was removed for going against the tos.

Although they do allow universal ecus like mega squirt. I could see performance programmers sneaking through if they avoid specific language. eBay can't know the specifics of every single item that gets listed.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't know about other states, but in Texas they don't even test diesel emissions during our annual registration / inspection. Totally ridiculous!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Vehicle inspections are going away entirely in Texas in 2025.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Is this a first posture against Amazon? They've been selling fake UL listed (terrible, terrible electrically charged garbage) for years and they have never gotten a take down notice. Clipping on a nightlight outlet face-plate to energized (you can't turn these off with a light switch) active terminals is the craziest one I've soon so far.

edit: Amazon has sold 100k of these, this should be an insurance nightmare......

light arcing > corroded metal > more resistance > fire.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

UL is a private organization. They would need to go after Amazon or the sellers themselves.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ebay doesn't sell anything. It's just a marketplace. Why wouldn't they pursue the people and companies actually selling these devices?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Do you know they're not going after them too?