Police haven’t specified the Tesla in their latest accident report but local press has inserted it from prior arrest records.

In the August 2023 arrest of the driver who later hit and killed Dowhan, a GRPD officer had spotted a white Tesla eastbound on Leonard Street NW near Hamilton Avenue NW.

“(The) officer recognized the driver of the Tesla as someone he saw thirty minutes prior,” wrote an officer in the 2023 probable cause affidavit. “(The) officer advised that he originally saw the white Tesla Park in the middle of the street on 2nd Street NW. He advised that the driver at the time appeared intoxicated. The officer told the driver to have a sober person move the car.”

It appeared the driver had failed to do so.

“Based on this observation officers activated their lights to initiate a traffic stop,” an officer reported in the affidavit. “The Tesla failed to pull over and crossed the fog line and struck a curb. The vehicle eventually pulled over on US-131.”

The “colonial survivalist” apocalyptic marketing of the Tesla Cybertruck has only deepened embarrassment for anyone pulled into Elon Musk’s widespread fraud.

One of the new Tesla Cybertrucks – whose recent arrival in Phnom Penh has caused a sensation – marked a milestone yesterday by being involved in its first Cambodian crash.

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According to the incident report, a man was seen driving a Tesla Cybertruck, traveling along Route 616 in the south-west direction at speed.

When he arrived at the scene, he turned left towards Route 113.

He turned and hit a curb, causing the car to crash into a tree.

It hit a curb. The end.

They could have saved so much money and shame by buying a far superior product from literally any other car manufacturer.

Yet the “extreme” survival bruhaha meant to generate attention leaves this as yet another Cybertruck disabled by the most trivial and common road obstacles.

He actually said this, as quoted in a story about his plan to bury the numbers.

Still, some Tesla shareholders seem nervous about the company’s approach. At that meeting last year, Musk was asked how he thinks about the “unfortunate mishaps” that have plagued other companies that are working on autonomous cars.

“Those are real consequences of developing this technology, and I’m just wondering where your mind is on that,” asked one shareholder who did not give his name.

Musk replied that Tesla is trying to be careful with the rollout of Full Self-Driving mode. “Human driving is not perfect,” he said, noting that roughly 40,000 people are killed every year on U.S. roadways. “What matters is, like, are we making that number smaller? And as long as we’re making that number smaller, we’re doing the right thing,” Musk said.

The answer is obvious.

Tesla has been making the fatality numbers far, far worse. They have been pushing a manslaughter machine into crash after crash, like no other OEM on the road.

Worse than even domestic terrorism.

Back in April 2022 I pointed out on this blog that Elon Musk was failing at the most basic transparency requirements while simultaneously demanding everyone else be required to have transparency:

…lawsuit alleges that by March 14, Musk’s stake in Twitter had reached a 5% threshold that required him to publicly disclose his holdings under U.S. securities law by March 24. Musk didn’t make the required disclosure until April 4.

In other words, he’s the kind of guy who wants to play poker by hiding his cards yet making everyone else put theirs face up on the table. Cheating? Of course. Lying? Of course. That’s what makes this funny-money snake-oil salesman so dangerous.

My argument back then was if you take his own statements and replace the word “tweets” with “stocks” in a foreign-backed (Russian money laundering) campaign to seize Twitter, it reveals his intent to cause substantial harm:

…having it be unclear who’s making what changes to who, to where, having [stocks] sort of mysteriously be promoted and demoted with no insight into what’s going on … I think this can be quite dangerous.

Right. It’s dangerous to manipulate stocks without transparency, he says, while he was constantly manipulating stocks without transparency. And that’s not to mention after the Russians paid him to take over Twitter for them he made it go private, to make it as unclear as possible why hate speech suddenly started getting promoted so heavily.

Well, it looks like the SEC wasn’t unaware of this pattern and has formally just announced their lawsuit.

According to the SEC’s complaint, after Musk failed to timely file a beneficial ownership report by March 24, 2022, he purchased more than $500 million worth of Twitter common stock between March 25, 2022 and April 1, 2022. As alleged, because Musk failed to timely file a beneficial ownership report with the SEC, he was able to make these purchases of Twitter common stock at artificially low prices from the unsuspecting public, who had not yet priced in the undisclosed material information of Musk’s beneficial ownership of more than five percent of Twitter common stock and investment purpose. According to the SEC’s complaint, Musk underpaid by at least $150 million for his purchases of Twitter common stock in this period. The complaint further alleges that, due to Musk’s failure to timely file a beneficial ownership report with the SEC, investors that sold Twitter common stock between March 25, 2022 and April 1, 2022 did so at artificially low prices, thereby suffering substantial economic harm.

Substantial harm is probably an understatement for what this grandson of the architects of South African apartheid has done with his family’s blood-money by laundering it and generating massive undisclosed gains using the American technology industry.