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How many times has this happened?
I feel like I read this sentence twice a month at the least.
Why are they allowed to exist? Who buys them?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/03/14/angela-chao-tesla-accident/72969299007/
Angela Chao was Senator McConnell’s sister-in-law.
Then I thought that weird considering this ...
www.404media.co/elon-musk-uses-cybertruck-explosion-to-show-tesla-can-remotely-unlock-and-monitor-vehicles/
her death was suspicious as fuck,, consider elaine chao mcconnels transactional wife(not even romantic) has ties to the CCP.
often enough that i know they have some hard to spot emergency door handles
It's probably not as often as it feels like. A headline about a Tesla fire gets more traction than other vehicle deaths. That being said, the problem is that both the fire and being trapped shouldn't happen, period. Even if it's a rare event.
It's not nearly as often as you read about it. This headline for this exact crash I've personally seen posted daily on lemmy for at least 2 weeks from various sources to different communities.
This one keeps coming up again because now there is a lawsuit, so there’s new news now related to the same crash. Still there are quite a few stories like this.
Meanwhile the other 600 car fires every day are ignored. Tesla isn't the only, or even the first car company to have these kinds of powered door handles, they're just the most recognizable to the average person, largely because of these articles. But those other 600 fires don't have anything to do with Musk or Tesla, so no one cares to report about it.
And in turn, the average person gets the reinforcement that EVs are dangerous, catch fire and trap occupants constantly, so legacy auto gets to have their anti-EV talking points reinforced by the media looking for that ad revenue from clicks.
Don't get me wrong, it's definitely an issue. But none of these things are unique to Tesla, or unique to EVs despite how the media reports try to focus the issue that way.
The door handle + hard to find release + battery flambe combo is the unique point here.
Oh and coupled with Tesla's inability to manage public relations.
Their email response:
💩🔒
yeah they have that shit on lockdown
People that really want attention. Just like most other expensive flashy cars.