Based on this dumpster fire of a headline, I think the take-away can only be that Siemens and other train manufacturers have to start calling their trains “OMEGA RAIL” and “CHUNGUS 3000” or shit like that so it’s worth a news article.
Aye it's ass. Even the temp mail idea is flawed because at some point you need to confirm your identity/ownership of the account.
I did a huge GDPR cleanup of various accounts I owned based on what I had and wanted gone from my password manager at the time. A mix of:
Please fill out this pdf with all your details of all the information you want deleted. If we can't find the data base don that form then it's on you. (Unnecessary amount of work. Solution, report to national GDPR Rep for obfuscation.)
Non-response from any active email. (Illegal for companies with operation sin the EU. Report to national GDPR rep for non0compliance.)
Did not respond for 30 days (Illegal for companies with operation sin the EU. Report to national GDPR rep for non0compliance.)
Asked for an extension to 60 days (Only possible in certain extreme circumstances that they need to prove to you. Report to national GDPR rep.)
Asked for copy of passport to confirm identity. (Unnecessary if emailing from the email they have on file. Tell them this. If they don't delete/ignore report them to national GDPR rep.)
Self-service deletion does not work and customer service will only refer you to that self-service. (Report to national GDPR rep.)
And probably more I don't remember. Maybe 30% of companies I reached out to actually just deleted it and confirmed as such within 30 days. If you're doing similar then you've got to get good at reporting people to strong arm them, especially if they just no respond after 30 days. Gotta proactively stay on top of that.
When they reply that they have deleted the account, do you assume that they also delete any information that they have stored or that they simply close it and keep the information?
Personally i want them to delete my email name and other information so that it is not at all in their systems.
The problem here is, that I can’t write and check, without them creating a new account for that email
So I don't know the company you're contacting but this should help: part of GDPR legislation is that you can contact and live email the company has and make your legally mandated demands that your data be deleted under GDPR. If they ask that you create an account to submit a request then you can claim this is unnecessary and obfuscatory to the purpose of deleting account details.
Make sure you tell them they have 30 days. Make sure you ask for all data related to your email, name, identity, phone numbers, whatever.... to be deleted. Quote the parts of GDPR legislation that are relevant to this (it's actually quite short so worth a read), and send them a link to the national authority you will report them through if they don't provide a satisfactory resolution in 30 days.
I did this for Hermes, an atrocious courier company in the UK who I hadn't used for anything for about 7 years. I got bounced around but eventually got a direct email to their data handlers. They demanded I give them a passport to prove my identity. I told them that the email I'm messaging from is more than enough for them to confirm. No response for 20 days (the timer was ticking from when I first emailed anyone at their company with the request) then they deleted my information right before the deadline and confirmed it with me.
Bastards, but if you're committed to reporting them then that seems to be good enough leverage for many crappy companies.
Now, imagine this revolutionary improvement: Find a way of putting the energy source outside of the train somehow, and save on weight by not hauling those heavy batteries around.
Christ, the amount of times techbros and tesla fanboys have accidentally “invented” trains and trams these past few years is beyond stupid…
Because there already are tracks without electricity where I live. When coming from a nearby major city by me, the train has to stop for 40 minutes while they switch from an electric to diesel power car. Same process while taking a train into the city, switching from diesel to electric.
Well, they’d only need enough batteries to cover the distance without overhead lines. So for shortish sections it’s probably fine, just charge while on the powered section.
I’m not a rail expert, but I thought for some reason that rails without electricity would be too old/unmaintained to be allowed to serve passenger traffic, lol.
40 minutes? I would have imagined that everyone would hop off at the station, they’d then drive out to a parking junction, and then drive back the electric train to the station for people to load in again. Isn’t it also very expensive to take the train (you’re from the US I assume)? Not weird that no one wants to take it when it’s in such bad situations :/
There are definitely use cases for battery-electric trains:
We have these in Germany usually in areas with low traffic. E.g. if a train line is only serviced a couple of times a day, it’s more cost-effective to carry the batteries with you than to electrify the line.
Another use case are train ferries. They are the reason why Germany also had Diesel-powered high-speed trains for a while.
Another challenge in Europe is the lack of harmonization of power supplies of train lines between countries. In cross-border traffic, trains have to be adapted to work with different energy supplies. Battery-electric trains can add flexibility for these scenarios. E.g. Germany uses AC 15 kV 16.7Hz, the Netherlands DC 1.5 kV on low-speed and AC 25 kV 50Hz on high-speed lines. When a train goes from the Netherlands to Germany, it disconnects from the Dutch system and reconnects to the German system on the fly. For a moment in between, the train loses power. If the train lacks momentum or has to stop unexpectedly, the train is stranded and has to be pushed over the border by another train that is independent of the power supply.
They’re advising you to use a personal email that is tied more directly to your name or identity, like using Yahoo Mail, Outlook, or Gmail, which they view as more personalized.
If you’d like, you could try creating an email address with your actual name (or a variation) on one of the recommended services, like: [email protected][email protected] This should resolve the issue
Now, let’s take the headline apart. Is it the first all-electric trai… no! Is it the first accumulator train? Also no, as you can see in the list above, the class 515 exists and the Stadler Flirt Akku has been used on a line since October 2023, Is it the first Siemens Mireo Plus B being used? You guess what, nope. As an example, SWEG is using some of them to bridge non-electrified parts of the track since April 2024.
So finally, what is special about the Gigatrain? (gosh, I actually really dislike that name) In February 2024, the subsidary ‘Smart Train Lease GmbH’ of Siemens Mobility has been announced. There you can also lease two Siemens Mireo Plus Bs. Tesla is their very first client. That’s it
Whoops, got longer as expected. In case I made small mistakes, feel free to point it out
What the… this is so infuriating to a railfan. It’s like they are trying to attach a 2x viewer multiplier by putting Elon-related keyword in it when Tesla has so little to do with it.
It’s not a Tesla train, nor a battery from Tesla, nor operated by Tesla, not even a new route (but granted an expanded timetable)
I wish media hyped trains like this in general and not limited to implicitly attributing it to Musk (who made hyperloop specifically to distract from High Speed Rail, mind you)… “GIGA TRAIN brings commuters to work”, “Hyper train first electric regional service in California - you won’t believe the capacity!”
Now just imagine how the hype is for literally everything they’ve ever done, and it’s on the exact same level. Once Tesla/Musk does something related to your field, it’s abundantly clear what an absolute fraud he is.
Generally, I’m against violence towards journalists - but dishonest and manipulative headlines like this tend to make me reconsider my stance, if but for a moment.
How many bad forms of transportation do you think he has to saddle the world with to sate his ego about the hyperloop turning out to be a totally unworkable lie?
I may be an idiot, but I’m 99% certain that this color scheme is only used in Baden-Württemberg - a state that’s like 500km away from the Tesla factory.
mildlyinfuriating
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