A federal IT staffer filed a complaint about DOGE, then went public. Shortly after Elon Musk boosted a post calling his claims false, his brake lines were cut. Now he’s suing for defamation.
I read the article. I am looking at the picture they used for the article.
For clarity, your parking brake is often (not always especially not on newer cars - especially with the advent of electronic parking brakes) a braided cable.
Your regular car brakes (attached to your brake pedal) are a hydraulically actuated system so the brake lines that were cut were actual brake hoses filled with fluid, not a brake cable.
Yeah I think thats stock or more likely ai in this day and age. As for what happened:
“Five days after the NPR story went live, on Easter Sunday, April 20, 2025, Berulis got in his car to drive to Maryland to make a last-minute visit to his uncle, opting to take local roads instead of the major highway nearby. Within about five minutes of leaving his house, Berulis realized something was wrong. As he approached a stop sign at an intersection, his car wouldn’t slow down. He ran off the road and into the sign. When he examined his car, he found something that terrified him: His brake lines had been cut.”
Wired, that’s not a brake line. At least, it’s not for the primary brake system. At best that could potentially be a parking brake cable.
“As he approached a stop sign at an intersection, his car wouldn’t slow down. He ran off the road and into the sign.”
I read the article. I am looking at the picture they used for the article.
For clarity, your parking brake is often (not always especially not on newer cars - especially with the advent of electronic parking brakes) a braided cable.
Your regular car brakes (attached to your brake pedal) are a hydraulically actuated system so the brake lines that were cut were actual brake hoses filled with fluid, not a brake cable.
This is what a cut brake line looks like:
https://www.nydailynews.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2020/10/21/YCOY32GHCFGYFNORXHEEOJZ6RA.jpg?w=1024&h=670
Yeah I think thats stock or more likely ai in this day and age. As for what happened:
“Five days after the NPR story went live, on Easter Sunday, April 20, 2025, Berulis got in his car to drive to Maryland to make a last-minute visit to his uncle, opting to take local roads instead of the major highway nearby. Within about five minutes of leaving his house, Berulis realized something was wrong. As he approached a stop sign at an intersection, his car wouldn’t slow down. He ran off the road and into the sign. When he examined his car, he found something that terrified him: His brake lines had been cut.”
Yeah. I’m not disputing what’s in the article. I’m pointing out that the picture they used is wrong to the context of what is reported in the article.