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The crazy part about all that steel and those difficult to break windows means its going to be a hard vehicle to escape in a fire or underwater. He may have bought a tesla but nobody deserves to die for that decision.
If you choose a car with an unproven safety record, you accept the high likelihood you will die in the event of a crash.
A few years ago the fightfighters in my town had to undergo new training because there was a tesla car fire at an accident scene that they had a very hard time putting out. Shit just wouldn't stop burning.
It does. New tech has new problems, but nothing we can't work with
Hopefully a more responsible company can figure out how to make those batteries safer since I'm not counting on tesla to do it.
And it's not because I think their r&d teams are bad. It's more like their narcissistic CEO will probably fire anyone who points out any problems or he'll just straight up ignore them and keep selling his mobile single use crematoriums.
A first step would be for Tesla to make it easy to escape the car in case a fire breaks out and power is cut. You know, as other manufacturers do already.
Fair enough. Tesla as a company gets worse and worse the more I learn about them.
Lithium fires need to be doused in salt to put out. Or, technically you can put out a metal fire with gasoline.
You go from a class D fire to a class B fire, and then you can put that out as normal. But yeah, salt is better.
Water is the last thing you want to use on class D fires, followed by CO2. Both have the oxygen ripped off by the burning metal, making the fire burn hotter.
A dump truck of sand also does the trick...but it better be very dry sand
DPS confirmed the driver was fatally injured at the scene, but his identity remains unknown due to severe burns. The intense fire also prevented authorities from identifying the vehicle's license plate or VIN.
Holy shit, it straight up cremated him in a lithium fire. Teslas are a fucking abomination.
I just realized that this is my first time seeing "First fatal crash" reported for a car model (I don't pay much attention to cars)
I realize that with the number of car accidents that happen daily, every model is bound to have a fatal one eventually, but huh..
witnessing "the first one" feels weird. Morbid.
I sleep well knowing this thing will never be street legal in the EU.
There is a video of the cybertruck crash test and the thing is very stiff with very little no crumple zone - so most of the energy of the impact goes directly to the driver and passengers.
And the edges are sharp like a knife in a crash. Incredibly dangerous.
It's almost like you should follow the lessons of the past and... Who am I kidding, muskrat is a billionaire therefore he's a super genius who knows better than the decades of research into collisions...
I mean it was a cool idea on first glance because it does things differently. But then a sane person would think about it for a while and listen to the engineers why there is a reason cars don't look like that.
The driver was too high-poly to survive the collision.
Tesla Cybertruck Cuisinart Edition.
emergency rooms going to have a name for crispy filleted cybertruck crash victims.
I hope it will be called "an Elon special." His name should always be associated with it
Cybertruck, built Fraud tough