Interim Order on Charger Plug Pressure
What would have happened if the plug had been confirmed seated rather than pressed harder.
INTERIM ORDER Subject: Charger Plug Pressure Reference: Counterfactual Review of Physical Confirmation Behavior
What Would Have Happened If the Plug Had Been Confirmed Rather Than Pressed
This order addresses the counterfactual case: what if, upon observing slow or absent charging, the person had verified the connection through available diagnostic means rather than applying additional manual pressure to a connector that was already inserted.
The connector was already fully seated before the first additional press was applied. This is knowable because the charging port accepts the plug at one depth, and that depth was reached on the initial insertion. The slow charging rate that triggered the behavior was, in the scenario under review, attributable to a software throttle applied during a background process.
The additional pressure did not change the insertion depth. The absurd rule governing this behavior states that charger plug pressure must be repeated whenever charging begins slowly, because the first successful press, in a prior case where the connector was actually loose, established precedent that pressing produces improvement.
What the Counterfactual Would Have Required
To avoid charger plug pressure, the person would have needed to check whether the throttle was active. This requires opening a settings panel. The settings panel is three taps away. The total time to check is approximately eleven seconds. The time spent applying and re-applying pressure, waiting, observing, and applying again is, in the documented case, ninety-four seconds.
The counterfactual path is faster. It is also less satisfying, because it provides no physical action to take, and physical action is what the situation seems to call for.
Current Status
Charger plug pressure has acquired standing. Nobody assigned it this status. One incident of a genuinely loose connector validated the press as a diagnostic tool, and the tool remained in use after the conditions that warranted it were gone.
The person who presses the plug harder is not making an error in any individual case. They are applying a pattern developed in a case that no longer represents their current situation. The pattern has outlasted the case.
The connector remains seated at the same depth as before the first press.
Charging continues at the throttled rate. The press will be applied again the next time.