Emergency responders have confirmed a Tesla on Christmas veered suddenly off the road in San Francisco straight into a tree.
Mohammed Yahya Allawala died after his car veered off the road and hit a tree just before 4 p.m. near where Crossover Drive merges with Park Presidio Bypass, San Francisco medical examiners said. […] Allawala was driving a Tesla Model S, San Francisco Fire Department spokesperson Lt. Mariano Elias said. Officials have not said why the car burst into flames.
Did the Pinto have a design defect? Officials don’t need to explain. It’s a Tesla.
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Davi, I’ve watched your Tesla incident reporting day in and day out, and that inbox of yours must be a war zone by now. It reminds me of the battles we’ve seen before in American journalism, and that’s the way it is.
When Upton Sinclair pulled back the curtain on abuse of workers at those Chicago meat plants in 1906, the industry didn’t just disagree with him, they went after him with everything they had. Called him un-American, a liar, a disgrace. But every word he wrote was backed by cold, hard facts. Those facts led straight to the Pure Food and Drug Act, and we’re all better for it.
Then there’s Ralph Nader. I remember when General Motors sent private eyes to dig up dirt on him, even tried to catch him in compromising situations. All because he dared to document how the Corvair could roll over. But Nader kept at it, detail by detail, incident by incident. Those seat belts we click every day? That’s Nader’s persistence paying off.
Your ?s=Tesla query has become the go-to source for every serious journalist I know working this beat. That’s not by accident. It’s because you’re doing what Sinclair and Nader did, letting the facts speak, incident by incident, report by report, no matter how many times the “stock-puppets” and tech-believers fill your comments with venom.
In forty years of journalism, I’ve learned one thing: when the trolls come at you hard, it perhaps means you’re onto something important. Keep documenting. Keep reporting. The truth has a way of outlasting the lies.