I had missed this one, among the collection of “88” in Tesla marketing materials. The number is, of course, the well known hate symbol. Elon Musk apparently uses it the most to spread his brand of Nazism.

Thank you to a sharp-eyed reader:

The 8.8-Sec 1/4-Mile Tesla Roadster Will Get Even Faster

Being able to crush any other production car on the drag strip isn’t enough, apparently, as Elon Musk hints at a faster incarnation of the new Roadster… “This will be the first time that any production car has broken nine seconds in the quarter-mile. …just a question of safety. Rocket tech applied to a car opens up revolutionary possibilities.”

That promise of putting questionable safety Hitler “rockets” on American roads is from 2017.

Nearly a decade later the Roadster has not materialized at all, despite huge advance deposits and heavy Hitler marketing campaigns.

Related Tesla Marketing Campaigns:

• Charge Plugs: 88
• Model Cost: 88
• Average Speed: 88
• Engine Power: 88
• Voice commands: 88
• Taxi launch date: 8.8

Notably, Musk went out of his way to promote a fantasy car with a fake data point. His choice of 8.8 was no coincidence, just like his “launch” date for a RoboTaxi of 8.8 that never happened.

There is a high rate of Teslas suddenly, inexplicably, veering off the road into a tree and killing people. We’ve observed this tragedy of design defects for years already. Lately, I’ve noticed more reports of witnesses and Samaritans jumping in to save people from the death-trap Teslas.

On Sunday night, a Waterloo woman crashed a Tesla off a Morgan County highway, and that’s when officials said the mystery man stepped in to help save the baby trapped inside.

Sheriff Ron Puckett said he doesn’t know who got the baby out of the burning car, but he said they saved that baby’s life.

State troopers said that 29-year-old Kayleigh Page was driving on Alabama 157 near the Battleground area when she left the roadway and crashed into two trees.

Page passed away in that wreck, but the 7-month-old in the back did not.

Puckett said a good Samaritan stopped and got the infant out of the burning Tesla. He said when rescuers responded, the ambulance service took the child to the hospital, and at last check, the baby is going to be okay.

Related: Virginia

A whole team of people are credited with joining law enforcement to rescue a man about to be killed by a Tesla.

A Virginia State Trooper and several good samaritans rescued a Maryland man from a burning Tesla after a crash on Interstate 95 northbound early Friday, December 5th, Virginia State Police said.

At about 7am, a 2024 Tesla Model Y went off the left side of I-95 and struck a tree near the 111-mile marker, authorities said. Sgt. S. Page was driving northbound and stopped to check on the driver just as the vehicle caught fire. The car’s doors were locked and would not open.

Sgt. Page broke a window, cut the airbag and with the help of multiple Good Samaritans pulled the sole occupant from the burning vehicle to safety.

Related: Alabama

Just a couple days ago Elon Musk said his cars can’t sell. Oh, no, sorry he said it doesn’t matter that his cars can’t sell, as if people will buy his robot instead. He literally said 80% of revenue will magically switch to a developmental robot that has no foreseeable market, which just lost its head.

Milan Kovac, Tesla’s vice president of Optimus robotics, announced his departure in June…

Apparently the Tesla robot responded like this: