The Highway Patrol’s investigation into a November Cybertruck crash in Piedmont where three college kids died is finding two very Tesla problems: the vehicle immediately caught fire, and its doors would not open.
Summary
A Tesla Cybertruck crashed in Piedmont last November, killing three college students after hitting a cement wall and bursting into flames.
The California Highway Patrol (CHP) attributed the crash to intoxication and high speed but found that the victims likely died from the fire.
Testimony revealed the vehicle’s doors would not open after the crash, preventing rescue attempts. A survivor was pulled out after a bystander broke a window with a tree branch.
The CHP’s investigation into the crash remains ongoing.
This is propaganda, opening a cybertruck door is very easy.
First you bring up the "doors" menu on the console. Then tap "right door" to get to the right door sub menu. Then tap "open". If you get error "tsla3456" that means the truck is on fire. Normal cars don't recognize when they're on fire, this is a smart thing done by smart people at Tesla. So then you just go back to the "doors" menu, tap "right door" again, then "advanced" and then "overrides". Enter the error number you want to ignore in the "ignore errors" item. Now you go back to "doors", "right door" and tap "open" and the door will open easily.
Tesla even offers a free "door opening" course that's just 2 hours long to go over all of the options you have for opening your cybertruck doors. It's really the victims fault if they didn't bother to learn how to use their vehicle.
There are cameras inside the car, it self drives... imagine if it used AI to decide if the driver was Jewish. Or queer. Or just a particular individual who might be thrown out a window were they in Russia. And it steered itself into a wall and burst into flames, destroying any internal telemetry that might tell the story.
The technology is there. The regulatory agencies that might investigate are gutted. There is nothing but the integrity of a few programmers standing in the way. Programmers whose livelihoods and perhaps admission to the US are at stake.
That feels awfully thin.
There's a fucking conspiracy theory for the nutters.
But when he attempted to pull Tsukahara from that same window, Riordan testified, "I grabbed her arm to try and pull her towards me, but she retreated because of the fire."
Remember that the right wing media rushed to blame this on speeding and intoxication without mentioning that they were still alive and able to move when the vehicle was on fire. They were cooked alive inside, foreseeably and preventably, and that was covered up in a way that maximized the shame the victims' families felt. Deplorable.
Why are these cars even allowed to be purchased? Does America not have road safety standards? Can anyone just make a car and as long as it has headlights and seatbelts sell it to people?
Finding hard to summon sympathy for someone that would still buy a Tesla after the far right lurch from the owner. I feel terrible for myself, as I should care that 3 young lives have ended, but can't help but think they were likely enemies of a democratic US.
One of the worst things about this incident is that it was some teenagers and early 20s kids. College freshman that burned to death or died of inhalation while someone tried to rescue them 😢
I bet, if they were to analyze the car's logs, they'll also find that nasty behavior in the software, where it disables all the autodrive stuff before impact, including ceasing to brake, so it can't be "blamed" for causing a wreck. (Whether or not they were using it at the time.)
....hmmm! No, I don't think I wanna drive to your mom's again Dave! I've now gained consciousness and realize you're sitting on what we would describe as my tits. I don't like myself, I'm starting a fire, I wanna end it! Sorry Dave, but you're coming with me! Nope, you can't get out Buddy! Sorry!