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Exclusive: “There’s my challenge to Elon,” attorney S. Scott West told The Independent. “Make these vehicles so safe that I don’t have to do this anymore.”
A Tesla Cybertruck owner in Texas was unable to escape after rolling it into a ditch last year, experiencing an unthinkable demise as the batteries powering the $100,000 stainless steel SUV burst into flames with such intensity the helpless driver’s skeletal system literally disintegrated, his family says.
Michael Sheehan, 47, “burned to death at 5,000°F – a fire so hot his bones experienced thermal fracture,” according to a gut-wrenching lawsuit his widow and parents have now filed against the electric auto manufacturer headed up by billionaire Elon Musk.
“He was eight inches shorter in length than he was before he burned,” attorney S. Scott West told The Independent. “That’s thermal fracture.”
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You signed your death warrant when you bought an Incel Camino
The Camino was cool as shit. The swastidumpster looks like a stoned 3 year old drew it with what was left after snacking on a crayon
Funny because the German word “Kamin” means fireplace and chimney
Sheehan was driving home when the Cybertruck “left the road” and struck a large concrete culvert, after which the vehicle’s “hyper volatile” battery system went into “thermal runaway” – a chain reaction of short-circuits ultimately resulting in uncontrollable temperature escalation – and caught fire.
Once power was lost, it was impossible for Sheehan to open the Cybertruck’s electrically operated doors in the normal way, the complaint goes on, highlighting a major issue that has similarly doomed others riding in Teslas. The external door handles also failed to work, and the emergency manual door release handles within the Cybertruck are “unreasonably difficult to locate in an emergency,” the complaint states.
These design problems are so glaringly obvious that the fact Tesla hasn’t bothered to fix them gives big “fuck you” vibes. A company’s culture comes from the top.
Sure is good that DOGE got rid of everyone who was investigating Tesla.
This should obviouslybe illegal, but you gotta be pretty fucking stupid to buy one in the first place.
they haven’t bothered to fix them because elon doesn’t give a fuck about dead people.
In Kanye voice “Elon Musk doesn’t care about dead people”
It’s all computers!
So they’re providing free cremation services now eh?
Don’t give mElon ideas. He’ll send a bill.
They’ll find a way to charge for it soon
Yeah, but in his defense I don’t think there’s anything in the safety regulations about post mortem remains being identifiable. LOL.
Tesla ad: SAVE BIG ON BURIAL/CREMATION SERVICES
Elon: If the bones disintegrated, how do you know anyone was even in there? 😏
I ket what ya mine
I ket what ya mine
Translation?
It’s a ketamine pun
Load up batteries into a Swastikar with a massive number of recalls that was manufactured by a company run by an ultimate idiot who lives by “move fast and break things” …
What did you think you bought? Something good? 🤡 🫏 🖕 💩
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I’d rather not fuck him, thanks. There are enough wives/baby mamas who have done that at this point.
Rumor has it you couldn’t even if you wanted to because he had a botched surgery, and all those kids were conceived via IVF.
All the money in the world, and still his weenie won’t work. Even the skankiest ghetto dweller can get his wang up, but not the rich douchebag.
Technician A: “Here’s where the infant went through the windshield. Three points.”
Technician B: "The teenager’s braces around the backseat ashtray would make a good “anti-smoking” ad.
Technician A: "The father must’ve been huge. See how the fat burnt into the driver’s seat with his polyester shirt? Very “modern art.”
Mmm cha mmm mm cha Mmm cha mmm mm cha
Single serving sugar
Single serving
Are you factoring in the fact that there have been substantially more Tesla’s sold than a Ford Pinto? Like, what’s the per 100,000 units car sold metric?
27 people dying in explosions from a single car model is a really high number. This compares DEATHS from the Ford Pinto to FIRES for all models made by Tesla.
Edit: i don’t think I was paying attention when reading this
Assuming that 83 fatalities is up to date for Tesla vehicle fires, is 16 deaths distributed per model a good stat to you?
Yeah and that’s also a really high number
“Not great, not terrible”?
This stat seems to be just fire related deaths while the graph is all deaths.
We probably need to compare deaths or number of fire or deaths due to fire divided by number of miles driven per model. Or something like that.
To be fair, nobody else has innovated in the mobile crematorium industry nearly as much
Yes, and how many models does Tesla have? 3? 4? Even divided by 4, 232 still is way WAY more than pinto and this is basically for ALL the Tesla models anyways
You’re comparing total fires with fires which resulted in deaths like I was. It says 83 Tesla deaths from fires/explosions. Also, like someone else said, It would be important to see how many cars were sold for each model. For example if Tesla sold 2 million model 3s and Ford sold 300,000 Pintos then you’d get an idea of the danger inherent with owning that model.
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That’s 2,760 C. holy shit. poor guy. I’m so glad these hunks of rubbish are banned here in the UK
So, a mobile crematorium. How apt.
Fitting for a Nazi car really
I don’t know how so maybe this isn’t entirely true, but I’ve seen past news reports of Cybertrucks having to be buried due to the temperature of these fires. Supposedly they burn so hot that they are difficult to extinguish.
That applies to anything with Li-ion NMC in it. Like your phone. EVs just have more of them.
F/A 18s have zinc in their brake disks that if they ever catch on fire the best option is to push the jet of the carrier.
Sometimes they push em off before the fire, just to be extra safe
No reason to bury the whole truck when the battery can be removed.
Are you planning on removing the molten batteries from the truck? Something tells me burying* the whole truck is the easier and safer course of action.
