One dead after Tesla Cybertruck catches fire outside Trump hotel in Las Vegas
One dead after Tesla Cybertruck explodes outside Trump hotel in Las Vegas
Is it just me or is it weird that they chose "catches fire" instead of "exploded"?
I have a feeling that it may have naturally caught fire (as in, standard tesla feature) and then fireworks they carried with them exploded.
A picture from this ABC article shows gas cans, camping stove cans, and fireworks in the back of the truck. The truck battery somehow survived.
donvict and the intern might be influencing the reporting, and what's released to the public.
With Teslas you don't even need a match.
Someone deliberately bought the vehicle. They knew the risk. One took out its owner in my old neighborhood a couple months ago. Pretty sure it was the one that I laughed at parked on the street all year. Haven’t seen it since.
It was a rental. Read the article instead of speculating.
edit: apparently the article was amended, and the original did not make that specification
I feel like we used to have consumer protections in this country about things like cars spontaneously catching fire. I'm sure I must be mistaken though.
Perhaps a warning?
Take a look at the picture/video https://bsky.app/profile/heyfren.bsky.social/post/3leplxu25722c
I am no expert but that looks kind of intentional. I am curious what the investigation finds out.
Everything I have heard is the cargo area was full of gasoline, camping gas, explosives including firework mortars
None of those things are prone to spontaneously catch fire or explode, so I expect it to be found to have been deliberate
I also expect that like the f150 lightning attack in New Orleans, this vehicle will turn out to have been hired.
I feel like a more flimsy vehicle would have released the fire and explosives more directly against the building, as it was it's only path out was the cabin via windows (the window to the cargo area, then the windows to outside)
The one dead seems to have been the driver
While I'm sure many like to comment on the delicious irony/attack towards Trump/Elon, I'm still curious about the "one dead" portion. It sounds like we have no idea who it was that was killed - possibly even just a random bystander from when it went off.
Which would be really terrible if someone was just detonating a stolen car for a political statement, and then ended up killing an innocent person.
The article read as though the person who died was in the truck. Now maybe it was someone who saw the explosives and was trying to get the truck out of there or something, but I'd assume likely the person who triggered it.
Guess you can't express an opinion
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What's the coincidence? Who is it terrorizing? What was the target?
Still not a ton of details so I'm for sure not jumping to any conclusions, especially with how shitty Tesla's are and their safety record...
But, Trump Tower and a Cyber truck certainly is the perfect symbolic intersection of Donald Trump and Elon Musk. If one did want to make a symbolic statement about the two, I don't know if I can think of a better intersection. Can you?
Obviously it's not proof of anything and Tesla's fucking suck. But I at least can comprehend why the perfection of the symbolism is noteworthy to people.
Edit: I see in a follow up comment buddy is linking it to New Orleans. I see no connection.
Coincidence with this the same day as New Orleans. Reasons it was a man made act. 1) I've seen information of Teslas spontaneously catching fire, but I haven't seen that they blow up. 2) when you watch the vid, the vehicle was smoking for some time. What was a person still in there for? 3) the explosion itself. The explosion appears to be low order like fireworks and originated in the passenger side rear, blowing out the rear first.
Wouldn't be surprised is all I'm saying.
I like this news. Especially after reading about the medication price increases that went into effect today in the US. Burn it down.
Trumpster fire.