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With the number of new coronavirus cases and COVID-19 deaths leveling off, the county \u003ca href=\"http://www.acphd.org/media/577747/press%20release%202020.05.18.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">will allow\u003c/a> curbside retail along with manufacturing and warehouse firms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the battle between the company and the county is not over, with \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6887676/Tesla-v-Alameda-County.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a Tesla lawsuit\u003c/a> challenging the health officials’ authority to shut down the plant during the coronavirus pandemic still pending in federal court. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And some critics of Tesla CEO Elon Musk say issues raised by his false and inflammatory statements about shelter-at-home orders, threats to move the company, personal insults to health officials and open contempt for directives intended to protect company workers remain unresolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Robert Reich, UC Berkeley professor of public policy and former US secretary of labor\"]‘Who is calling the shots here? 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The Fremont plant shut down a week late and only after a public dispute involving the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Musk’s displeasure with the COVID-19 measures spilled out in a Tesla earnings call on April 29, when he noted that the Fremont factory’s continued closure posed a “serious risk” to the company’s financial performance. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He went on to describe the health orders, which had just been extended, as “forcibly imprisoning people in their homes against all their constitutional rights, in my opinion, and breaking people’s freedom in ways that are horrible and wrong and not why people came to America or built this country.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wasn’t finished. In answer to another question, he repeated his baseless claim that people were subject to arrest if they left home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is fascist,” he said. “This is not democratic. This is not freedom. Give the people back their goddamn freedom.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fast forward to the week before last. In the midst of discussions between Alameda County and Tesla plant officials that appeared \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/09/business/coronavirus-elon-musk-tesla-california.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">headed toward an agreement\u003c/a> to open the Fremont facility on May 18, Musk began agitating for an immediate restart. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla filed suit, arguing that county health orders were in conflict with state directives that allowed some manufacturing to resume. Musk also took a swipe at Alameda County’s interim health officer, Dr. Erica Pan — calling her “ignorant and unelected”— and warned that he was ready to move his company out of California altogether. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1259162367285317633\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then came last week’s reopening — signaled first by the appearance of thousands of employee cars at the plant, then by Musk’s tweet that the plant was resuming production and that he was willing to be arrested, and finally by Alameda County’s repeated conciliatory statements that it was working things out with plant managers and that the company had a satisfactory plan to go ahead with a ramp up from “basic minimum operations” in preparation for a restart. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked on CNN’s “State of the Union” program on Sunday whether Tesla had been given preferential treatment when it suffered no legal consequences for disobeying the health orders, Gov. 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He was especially critical of Musk for putting employees who have exhausted their paid time off in the position of having to report to work amid the pandemic or not get paid. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is the worst and most inhumane choice you can impose,” Reich said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reich said he believes Tesla and Musk should face some state sanction for defying the county health orders. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who is calling the shots here?” he asked. “Public health authorities and authorities who are there to protect people or a very wealthy billionaire businessman who is there basically to maximize shareholder value and his own wealth?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ann Skeet, senior director of leadership ethics at Santa Clara University’s Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, said last week that Musk’s behavior followed a familiar arc.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Silicon Valley leaders unfortunately have a reputation for disregard for laws and regulations, and they tend to wear it as a badge of honor,” Skeet said. “It’s not necessarily productive, and it’s certainly not considerate of the rest of the community and the broader society they’re operating in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skeet said there were other aspects of Musk’s confrontation with county authorities that “were not a good look.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Another overlay that’s really unfortunate is a highly qualified female authority being challenged by a male tech CEO in a community, Silicon Valley, that already has not a great reputation for gender relationships,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skeet said she believes that companies’ behavior will have lasting effects. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are going to have long memories on how leaders have responded in this moment,” she said. “And leaders who have put the health and well-being of their workers and customers front and center are going to bounce back more quickly, I think, than those that haven’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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The agency has yet to issue any regulations, though it is studying how it should evaluate similar “advanced driver assist” systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At some point, the question becomes: How much evidence is needed to determine that the way this technology is being used is unsafe?” said Jason Levine, executive director of the nonprofit Center for Auto Safety in Washington. “In this instance, hopefully these tragedies will not be in vain and will lead to something more than an investigation by NHTSA.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levine and others have called on the agency to require Tesla to limit the use of Autopilot to mainly four-lane divided highways without cross traffic. They also want Tesla to install a better system to monitor drivers to make sure they’re paying attention all the time. Tesla’s system requires drivers to place their hands on the steering wheel. But federal investigators have found that this system lets drivers zone out for too long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla plans to use the same cameras and radar sensors, though with a more powerful computer, in its fully self-driving vehicles. Critics question whether those cars will be able to drive themselves safely without putting other motorists in danger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doubts about Tesla’s Autopilot system have long persisted. In September, the National Transportation Safety Board, which investigates transportation accidents, issued \u003ca href=\"https://ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/HAB1907.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a report\u003c/a> saying that a design flaw in Autopilot and driver inattention combined to cause a Tesla Model S to slam into a firetruck parked along Interstate 405 in Culver City in January 2018. The board determined that the driver was overly reliant on the system and that Autopilot’s design let him disengage from driving for too long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the deaths on Sunday night, three U.S. fatal crashes since 2016 — two in Florida and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673299/tesla-suv-on-autopilot-accelerated-before-fatal-mountain-view-crash\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">one on U.S. 101 in Mountain View\u003c/a> — involved vehicles using Autopilot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Friedman, vice president of advocacy for Consumer Reports and a former acting NHTSA administrator, said the agency should have declared Autopilot defective and sought a recall after \u003ca href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/1/14458662/tesla-autopilot-crash-accident-florida-fatal-highway-patrol-report\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a 2016 crash\u003c/a> in Florida that killed a driver. Neither Tesla’s system nor the driver had braked before the car went underneath a semi-trailer that had turned in front of the car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t need any more people getting hurt for us to know that there is a problem and that Tesla and NHTSA have failed to address it,” Friedman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to NHTSA, states can regulate autonomous vehicles, though many have decided they want to encourage testing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 2016 crash, NHTSA closed its investigation without seeking a recall. Friedman, who was not at NHTSA at the time, said the agency determined that the problem didn’t happen frequently. But he said that argument has since been debunked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friedman said it’s foreseeable some drivers will not pay attention to the road while using Autopilot, so the system is defective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The public is owed some explanation for the lack of action,” he said. “Simply saying they’re continuing to investigate — that line has worn out its usefulness and its credibility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, NHTSA said it relies on data to make decisions, and if it finds any vehicle poses an unreasonable safety risk, “the agency will not hesitate to take action.” NHTSA also has said it doesn’t want to stand in the way of technology given its life-saving potential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Messages were left Thursday seeking comment from Tesla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raj Rajkumar, an electrical and computer engineering professor at Carnegie Mellon University, said it’s likely that the Tesla in Sunday’s California crash was operating on Autopilot, which has become confused in the past by lane lines. 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Some critics have said it’s past time for NHTSA to stop investigating and to take action, such as forcing Tesla to make sure drivers pay attention when the system is being used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NHTSA has started investigations into 13 Tesla crashes dating to at least 2016 in which the agency believes Autopilot was operating. The agency has yet to issue any regulations, though it is studying how it should evaluate similar “advanced driver assist” systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At some point, the question becomes: How much evidence is needed to determine that the way this technology is being used is unsafe?” said Jason Levine, executive director of the nonprofit Center for Auto Safety in Washington. “In this instance, hopefully these tragedies will not be in vain and will lead to something more than an investigation by NHTSA.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levine and others have called on the agency to require Tesla to limit the use of Autopilot to mainly four-lane divided highways without cross traffic. They also want Tesla to install a better system to monitor drivers to make sure they’re paying attention all the time. Tesla’s system requires drivers to place their hands on the steering wheel. But federal investigators have found that this system lets drivers zone out for too long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla plans to use the same cameras and radar sensors, though with a more powerful computer, in its fully self-driving vehicles. Critics question whether those cars will be able to drive themselves safely without putting other motorists in danger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doubts about Tesla’s Autopilot system have long persisted. In September, the National Transportation Safety Board, which investigates transportation accidents, issued \u003ca href=\"https://ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/HAB1907.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a report\u003c/a> saying that a design flaw in Autopilot and driver inattention combined to cause a Tesla Model S to slam into a firetruck parked along Interstate 405 in Culver City in January 2018. The board determined that the driver was overly reliant on the system and that Autopilot’s design let him disengage from driving for too long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the deaths on Sunday night, three U.S. fatal crashes since 2016 — two in Florida and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673299/tesla-suv-on-autopilot-accelerated-before-fatal-mountain-view-crash\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">one on U.S. 101 in Mountain View\u003c/a> — involved vehicles using Autopilot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Friedman, vice president of advocacy for Consumer Reports and a former acting NHTSA administrator, said the agency should have declared Autopilot defective and sought a recall after \u003ca href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/1/14458662/tesla-autopilot-crash-accident-florida-fatal-highway-patrol-report\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a 2016 crash\u003c/a> in Florida that killed a driver. Neither Tesla’s system nor the driver had braked before the car went underneath a semi-trailer that had turned in front of the car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t need any more people getting hurt for us to know that there is a problem and that Tesla and NHTSA have failed to address it,” Friedman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to NHTSA, states can regulate autonomous vehicles, though many have decided they want to encourage testing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 2016 crash, NHTSA closed its investigation without seeking a recall. Friedman, who was not at NHTSA at the time, said the agency determined that the problem didn’t happen frequently. But he said that argument has since been debunked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friedman said it’s foreseeable some drivers will not pay attention to the road while using Autopilot, so the system is defective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The public is owed some explanation for the lack of action,” he said. “Simply saying they’re continuing to investigate — that line has worn out its usefulness and its credibility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, NHTSA said it relies on data to make decisions, and if it finds any vehicle poses an unreasonable safety risk, “the agency will not hesitate to take action.” NHTSA also has said it doesn’t want to stand in the way of technology given its life-saving potential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Messages were left Thursday seeking comment from Tesla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raj Rajkumar, an electrical and computer engineering professor at Carnegie Mellon University, said it’s likely that the Tesla in Sunday’s California crash was operating on Autopilot, which has become confused in the past by lane lines. 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"content": "\u003cp>Tesla co-founder and CEO Elon Musk showed off his company's all-electric \"Cybertruck\" on Thursday, touting its versatility and toughness. But the truck's unique design — it follows one angle from the front bumper to the top of the windshield, for instance — threw some Tesla fans for a loop. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And during a demonstration to show off the truck's \"armor glass,\" the windows smashed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In typical Tesla style, the unveiling in Los Angeles included a countdown clock and an auditorium full of fans and journalists. The truck drove onto the stage through wafts of artificial smoke, and music drummed through loudspeakers. On the periphery, pyrotechnic flames rose as the vehicle stopped in front of a graffiti-style Cybertruck graphic, in stark black and white. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Musk had teased several of the design cues ahead of the event, citing influences from \u003cem>Bladerunner\u003c/em> to the James Bond movie \u003cem>The Spy Who Loved Me\u003c/em>. Both films featured vehicles with sharply angled front ends and overall wedge shapes — an approach to car design that's been seen as futuristic and aerodynamic since Alfa Romeo created the knifelike \u003ca href=\"https://www.classicdriver.com/en/article/cars/classic-concepts-1968-alfa-romeo-carabo\">Carabo\u003c/a> concept car in 1968. Others followed, such as Lamborghini's angular Countach and the Lotus Esprit, one of which was made into an amphibious vehicle for Roger Moore's James Bond — a car that \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/18/tesla-elon-musk-james-bond-lotus-submarine-car\">Musk bought in 2013\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The front of the Cybertruck angles up to a point just above the front-seat headrests, where it meets an even longer slope down to the rear — a continuous plane that includes both a transparent roof panel and the truck's rolltop bed cover, which retracts behind the back seats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Musk seems to have expected the wedge-shaped design to split some potential customers, saying months before the truck's long-awaited unveiling that \u003ca href=\"https://electrek.co/2019/03/15/tesla-cyberpunk-electric-pickup-truck-teaser-elon-musk/\">its look\u003c/a> \"may be too futuristic for most people.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788182\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/cybertruck-5_wide-a71c29f4a3bb25b815a5eea6bb234c41e4e3fd27-800x450.jpe\" alt=\"Tesla unveiled its Cybertruck electric vehicle Thursday night. 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After the much-hyped event, the company's fans were divided on the truck's aggressively angular design. \u003ccite>(via Tesla Motors)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Cybertruck also looks markedly different from the truck concept improvised by Tesla owner Simone Giertz — who won fans earlier this year when she hacked off the back roof of a new Tesla Model 3 and converted the sedan into a truck. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giertz, who was at the Tesla event, said of the Cybertruck,\" I have no idea what I think of it. Need to sleep on it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, she elaborated somewhat: \"I've slept on it now, but my facial expression is still the same. I think I might have gotten chronic shocked \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cybertruck?src=hashtag_click\">#Cybertruck\u003c/a> face.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SimoneGiertz/status/1197929481454813184?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics called it a doorstop or a very ugly DeLorean — or something that might be seen in an old vector-graphic video game. But the truck also had its defenders, who seem to chalk up the initial negative comments to the Cybertruck's bold look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Really disappointed by my colleagues at so many pubs who are dismissing the Cybertruck because it looks weird,\" \u003cem>Roadshow \u003c/em>Editor-in-Chief Tim Stevens \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Tim_Stevens/status/1197783753705185284\">said via Twitter\u003c/a>. He added, \"Many of these same colleagues spent this entire week lamenting an industry that is churning out samey, half-assed crossover SUVs. I'll take weird over anonymous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twitter user David Wu \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/libdave/status/1197750810261647361\">compared it to a stealth fighter\u003c/a>: \"The F35 of pickup trucks. Don't think my mind has ever been blown like this before.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla says the Cybertruck drives better than most sports cars and is more useful than a normal truck. From a standing start, the truck's maxed-out version can accelerate to 60 mph in 2.9 seconds, according to the company. And on paper at least, the pairing of electric motors — known for their high torque output — with a truck would seem to be a slam-dunk concept.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But pickup trucks, like most automobiles, are also sold on image. And both Tesla and Musk have repeatedly played up the new electric truck's ruggedness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You want a truck that's really tough? Not fake tough?\" Musk asked the crowd Thursday night. He also said Tesla will make the exterior of the Cybertruck from a stainless steel alloy developed by his companies. \"We're going to be using the same alloy in the Starship rocket,\" Musk said, referring to his SpaceX project. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is literally bulletproof to a 9 mm handgun, that's how strong the skin is,\" Musk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then things went off track with the \"Tesla armor glass\" strength test. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7atGkba-Z8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A metal ball was dropped onto a sheet of what Musk described as \"regular car glass,\" leaving a long crack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To test a sheet of Tesla's glass, the metal ball was taken up to a height of around 10 feet and dropped again. The \"armor glass\" remained intact. But Musk didn't stop there — he turned the ball over to Tesla's chief designer, Franz von Holzhausen, who had previously whacked the truck's doors with a sledgehammer to show its durability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Franz, could you try to break this glass, please?\" Musk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You sure?\" von Holzhausen asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yeah.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without much of a windup, von Holzhausen whirled the ball at Tesla's brand-new truck — leaving a nasty-looking spiderweb of splintered and dented glass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Well,\" Musk said afterward. \"Maybe that was a little too hard.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staring at the ruined window, one hand on his chin, Musk added, \"It didn't go through. That's the plus side.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then von Holzhausen asked if they should try the rear window. Musk agreed, and was soon standing in front of two pock-marked windows for the rest of the carefully stage-managed event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not bad,\" Musk summed up that portion of the night, adding, \"Room for improvement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cybertruck has six seats and a cargo bed (or \"vault,\" as Tesla calls it) that's 6 1/2 feet long. Its tailgate also hides a ramp, for rolling materials or vehicles into the bed. The truck is 231.7 inches (19.3 feet) long, nearly 80 inches wide and 75 inches tall. Tesla lists its maximum range at more than 500 miles. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The truck will be offered in a wide spectrum of driving range and weight capacity, depending on which motor is powering the vehicle. 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"content": "\u003cp>SpaceX successfully launched 60 communications satellites on Monday using a single rocket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's the second time in less than a year that Elon Musk's company has made such a launch, marking a dramatic increase in the number of satellites in orbit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next year, SpaceX and a rival company, \u003ca href=\"https://oneweb.world/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OneWeb\u003c/a>, plan to put hundreds of networked satellites in orbit to eventually provide high-speed Internet to any point on Earth. 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The \u003ca href=\"http://www.esa.int/Safety_Security/Space_Debris/Space_debris_by_the_numbers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European Space Agency\u003c/a> estimated in January that there are nearly a million pieces of space junk larger than 1 centimeter (about three-eighths of an inch) circling the planet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SpaceX says it's planning 24 more launches next year, adding to this already crowded space environment. In September, ESA's Aeolus Earth observation satellite was forced to fire its maneuvering thrusters to avoid a potential collision with one of the Starlink satellites launched in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, Holger Krag, head of the Space Debris Office at ESA, called \u003ca href=\"http://www.esa.int/Safety_Security/ESA_spacecraft_dodges_large_constellation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the incident\u003c/a> an example of how \"in the absence of traffic rules and communication protocols, collision avoidance depends entirely on the pragmatism of the operators involved.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/esaoperations/status/1168534747724820482?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1168534747724820482&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2019%2F11%2F11%2F778219787%2Fas-spacex-launches-dozens-of-satellites-at-a-time-some-fear-an-orbital-traffic-j\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that hasn't dissuaded Musk, whose ambitious goal is to put 1,600 satellites in orbit to get truly global coverage for SpaceX's broadband service, with 400 to 800 needed to start service, Farrar says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, the constellation could grow to as many as 30,000 satellites, according to SpaceX filings to regulators. By contrast, there are only about 2,000 satellites in operation today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrar says the project is all about SpaceX's bottom line. The company is valued at about $30 billion, but its revenues are just a small fraction of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If it's just going to justify that valuation it's going to have to generate an awful lot more revenue in the future, and the only realistic way to do that in the next few years is to get in the communications business with Starlink,\" Farrar says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So SpaceX is moving quickly. It's planning to launch 60 more satellites soon, and more shortly after that. Meanwhile, OneWeb says it will launch more than 30 satellites each month starting next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The scale of these systems is unprecedented,\" says Hugh Lewis, an orbital debris expert at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom who has worked as a consultant for OneWeb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewis says all these new satellites could increase the chances of collisions that would spread shrapnel throughout low-Earth orbit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"spacex\" label=\"Related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How big of a problem this might be is unclear, he says, because no one has ever tried something like this before. To try to find out, he has been running simulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a mixed picture,\" he says. \"Unfortunately, we don't get back a clear message of 'Yes, do it' or 'No, don't do it — it's too dangerous.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What is clear is that Earth-bound space traffic control systems are not ready to handle this many satellites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Air Force operates a network of telescopes to track satellites and then feed that data into a computer to look for potential collisions. It shares information about any potential close calls with companies that operate the satellites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Weeden, a former Air Force officer who used to work tracking satellites, says that when he started on the job in 2004, he was using mainframe computers dating from the 1990s. 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