Another Tesla case of sudden loss of control.
One man died, and another was injured, after the driver of a Tesla lost control of his vehicle, smashed through a guardrail, and plunged 6.5 meters off a bridge in Yunlin County, yesterday, June 6.
Yunlin County Fire Department received reports of an accident in the southbound lanes of Highway 1 in Huwei Township at 9:12 pm.
Several people have asked me to comment on the financial shenanigans behind the news about Tesla chip orders ($500 million in H100) being redirected to another company instead.
…Musk presented an exaggerated picture of Tesla’s procurement to shareholders. Correspondence from Nvidia staffers also indicates that Musk diverted a sizable shipment of AI processors that had been reserved for Tesla to his social media company formerly known as Twitter.
As far as I can see these chips are being transfered to a xTwitter balance sheet that just raised $6B in foreign investment (Saudis? Chinese? Russians? Oracle?).
…a $6 billion financing round led by many of the same investors who funded Musk’s Twitter takeover. The company was incorporated in March 2023, but Tesla didn’t disclose its formation at the time…
“The company” refers to a team of people inside xTwitter who were tasked with the setup of up an extremist right wing propaganda LLM running on Oracle. So xTwitter was given billions from Oracle to incorporate a company that gives cash to Tesla for chips that run on Oracle?
Tesla allegedly said to investors it needs these chips to make its cars less deadly, but presently can’t pay for them because of sales massively collapsing and a cash crunch.
In Germany, where they built a giant environmental disaster plant that has to be shut down, Tesla recorded the steepest sales decline of any brand in May plummeting 64% year-over-year. Year-to-date they fell 41.4%, while other brands were seeing increases. Meanwhile the Tesla CEO has been threatening to quit the company if he is not given enough control to overrule everyone.
NVidia chips thus were redirected straight to xTwitter, where they get booked as a (highly inflated) cash purchase from Tesla.
Boom, Tesla just became a rent seeking NVidia front as boatloads (over $500 million) of dubious cash gets laundered through xTwitter. Does it also get these chips? Maybe xTwitter next bills Tesla for chip use on Oracle, making a self-dealing cash flow reverse whenever convenient.
Since Tesla setup 90 day terms with Nvidia on tens of thousands of chips, there isn’t even a cost to offset for a few minutes.
It’s all magic money fraud games, that I’m sure many others can see as clear or more clearly.
Who remembers money disappeared into solar roof tiles, or fast swap car batteries, or bogus revenues…?
Without fraud there would be no Tesla.
In a tragic and often repeating story, another speeding Tesla hit a bump, lost control and killed someone.
According to the Powell Police Department, the crash happened in the 3400 block of Club Way Court at Powell Grand Communities around 9:15 p.m.
One person, Ethan Blecke, was taken to Riverside Methodist Hospital where he was pronounced dead hours later. Police Chief Ron Sallows said one other person was hospitalized and is now listed as stable. Three others were treated at the scene.
Sallows said it appears a 16-year-old boy was driving a Tesla, with five other people inside the vehicle, at a high rate of speed when he hit a speed bump, lost control and struck several other vehicles. The Tesla also hit part of a garage attached to one of the apartment buildings.
This is not an isolated incident. According to a 2024 iSeeCars study analyzing NHTSA data, Tesla has the highest fatal crash rate of any auto brand—5.6 deaths per billion miles driven, double the national average of 2.8.
The Model Y specifically clocks in at 10.6, nearly four times the average.
These numbers exist despite Tesla’s vehicles routinely gaming top crash-test safety ratings, which reveals the gap between surviving an impact and avoiding one in the first place.
Court rooms don’t call the Tesla a death trap for nothing.
The Demographic Shift
In the past, news about Tesla-related fatalities usually involved older couples (reflecting the car’s initial marketing as exclusive to those who could afford one). However, recently, there has been a noticeable shift towards reports of groups of teenagers being harmed, reflecting the car’s present reality as a cheap thrill status symbol.
The Model 3 now starts at $38,630. Used Model 3s have plummeted to around $20,000. What was once a fake luxury purchase for the elderly is now accessible to any teenager whose parents want to be projecting fake luxury, while handing their child the keys to a car that accelerates them into a tree faster than they can think.
The shift in who is killed stems from a dangerous combination.
Elderly couples are now wise to the fraudulent safety claims and choose a different brand to project status. Young adults haven’t gotten that memo, combined with an overconfidence making them unable to respond adequately in an unnecessarily powerful car.
Tesla Tragedy Keeps Happening:
The iSeeCars analyst noted that modern cars are safer than ever in crash tests, yet “these safety features are being countered by distracted driving and higher rates of speed.”
Tesla’s design choices are the worst in the industry, and actively encourage both:
Essentially, Tesla’s grossly misleading portrayal of its safety, combined with gaming lab tests, continues to exacerbate the risks for those most vulnerable to its many design and engineering flaws. Tesla is also clearly the least reliable brand in the used car market.
Update
The Tesla driver is being charged with homicide.
A 16-year old driver faces several charges, including vehicular homicide, after a crash that killed a fellow 16-year-old in Powell. The driver has been charged with aggravated vehicular homicide, aggravated vehicular assault and reckless operation.
This is reminiscent of the recent tragedy and Tesla trial in New Zealand.
The alleged killer literally admitted his Tesla had made him into a worse driver, a deadly menace not only to himself but anyone around. […] Perhaps a simple empathy test should be required before anyone can turn on the power to these loitering munitions called cars? Don’t know how to safely point the barrel of a loaded rocket launcher? No launch for you.
The Tesla Deaths database now documents 772 fatalities. The company’s response to this body count has been to lie about the future, cooking nonsense about robotaxis.
More teenagers have been killed by “brutal” Tesla.
The collision occurred just before 8 p.m. Tuesday at the intersection of Vista Del Mar and Imperial Highway, overlooking Dockweiler State Beach in L.A.’s Playa del Rey neighborhood.
The victims were confirmed as two teenage boys who attended a school in the Inglewood Unified School District.
Video from the scene captured by Sky5 shows a massive response by emergency crews; another angle shows a mangled white Tesla near another blue vehicle damaged beyond recognition.
LAFD initially reported one was killed and two had to be extricated.
Firefighters extricated two patients, and transported a total of four patients (3 critical & 1 in fair condition) to local hospitals (ages/genders: 18M, 16M, 18F, 30F). The deceased (unknown age/gender) remains inside one of the wrecked vehicles
The teen driver of the car Tesla crashed into was killed instantly, and was expected to graduate high school the next day.
The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office has identified David Ceja, 17, who was pronounced deceased at the scene, and Hector Ceja Jr., 15, who died at a local hospital from his injuries.
The two were brothers. Police are investigating and say it’s unclear why the cars crashed head-on.