FTTC finally installed


Have you noticed Tesla are always in the news? Every single item of news is immediately a global sensation.

![](carfire3813web3-1024x792.jpg)

Every attempt is made by the mainstream media to bad-mouth them, it seems. For example, [here’s a story](https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/2817499/motherwell-land-rover-fire-flames-cars-explode/) about a fire at a Land Rover dealer. No suggestion as to the cause at this stage, and the article doesn't even hazard a guess. However, they feel the need to include a video of an on-fire Tesla at the bottom.

Tesla fires, although very rare, are very widely reported, as is every crash. Even crashes where auto-pilot has not been proven to be in use, the article will say "auto pilot-enabled Tesla", just to remind us how dangerous they'd like us to believe these cars to be.

It’s almost as if the establishment has a problem with an upstart tech company muscling in on their patch.

Remember 
[Controversial](https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/uber-ban-countries-where-world-taxi-app-europe-taxi-us-states-china-asia-legal-a7707436.html) 
[Taxi](https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/controversial-taxi-app-uber-set-7712154) 
[App](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-34549135) 
[Uber](https://www.insider.co.uk/news/controversial-taxi-app-uber-launches-9893585)?

**UPDATE September 2020** I now drive a [Tesla](https://ts.la/colin22461). And it hasn't gone on fire yet. I'll be sure to let you know.


Controversial self driving car company Tesla


After years of waiting and [campaigning](https://www.facebook.com/heathfieldparksuperfast/), and a few false starts, it’s finally installed!

What a difference, here are the results from my phone.

![](fttc-speed-jan-2018.png)

A big shoutout to [Springfield Homes](https://www.springfield.co.uk/) for delaying the rollout by just over 4 years. Thanks, guys! If you are looking for a new house, please consider another house builder. Just not Persimmon, [don’t like them either](https://www.gtra.org.uk/2017/11/heathfield-farm-development/).




Why do I continue to have this website? I clearly can't be bothered to think up anything to put on it, and, looking back, everything on it is cringeworthy 😀

I may just ditch it all and have one of those simple pages that just lists your name and links to your [twitter](https://twitter.com/colinnich) (which I haven't updated in ages), your [facebook](https://www.facebook.com/colin.nicholson.946) (which it mostly private) and your [linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/colinnich/) (which I barely use either).
