Mission Local has the scoop. Apparently someone in SF still drives drove a Tesla.
A Tesla crashed into The Mellow SF plant store at the corner of 21st and San Carlos in the Mission early Sunday afternoon.
No injuries occurred.
The accident occurred at 12:15 p.m., according to Lorena Velasco, who owns the store with her husband, David.
Car with front-end damage crashed into plant display outside a shop. Several pots knocked over. Nearby street signs visible.The Mellow SF. Courtesy of the owners.
“Police were called and arrived quickly, but no report was filed since the car that ran into our corner was our property manager,” Valesco wrote in an email.
Nothing to see here. Just another satisfied Tesla Autopilot customer.
Creely spoke to the driver of the Tesla who said she had her car on auto-pilot to make a right turn onto San Carlos and into her garage. The car, however, wasn’t executing the turn.
The US political system is showing clear signs of systemic breakdown, according to a new book by Katherine Stewart, a journalist who specializes in the religious right.
Money, Lies and God
The circulation of democratic ideals is being blocked by concentrated wealth (“huge concentrations of wealth have destabilized the political system”) while Christian nationalist toxins accumulate unchecked. The filtering mechanisms that should maintain healthy democratic function – like reasoned debate and pluralistic values – are being rejected in favor of what Stewart calls “brutal acts of will.”
The symptoms are clear in how these movements operate:
Wealthy donors acting like blood clots, restricting the flow of democratic participation
Religious institutions being corrupted from their original purpose (like the 1986 Catholic bishops’ economic justice message being co-opted)
Strategic infection of young talent into anti-democratic career paths
Systematic poisoning of election integrity discourse
Failure of democratic forces to mount an effective immune response due to lack of coordination
Stewart’s diagnosis suggests the condition is advanced but perhaps not yet terminal, which delays sufficient reaction.
There’s no feature as of yet in the American political system that would ensure that the Maga movement is going to rule indefinitely.
But without aggressive intervention to restore healthy democratic function, the prognosis is grim.
The key point: Just as renal failure requires early active medical intervention, saving democracy requires active resistance and coordination immediately from pro-democratic forces. Silence and inaction only allow disease to progress.
Elon Musk exemplifies the sunk cost fallacy in action. When faced with evidence that his predictions or projects aren’t succeeding, he often escalates his commitment rather than changing course. His response pattern mirrors the Vietnam War syndrome, where military commitments escalated despite mounting evidence of strategic failure. When criticized, he typically amplifies his original claims to absurd heights and attacks detractors, transforming what could be learning opportunities into exercises in tragically doubling down into deaths.
Despite more and more tragedy for owners of Tesla, and anyone around them, the CEO just said this nonsense to investors about his 2025 safety prediction.
Source: Twitter
He jumps from 10 to 100 without explanation and then dumps out “won’t crash” for 2025.
Four people were seriously hurt in a crash at the north end of the Interstate 5 bridge in Vancouver on Friday night and a driver faces charges, according to the Vancouver Fire Department.
Just before midnight, firefighters responded to a two-car crash at the I-5 South bridge, where a 2018 Tesla had smashed into the back end of a 2024 Tesla, according to investigators with the Washington State Patrol. Both cars then crashed into the left concrete barrier on the bridge.
Police in Surrey responded to a single-vehicle collision on a rural road near Mud Bay Park around 8 a.m. Saturday.
Surrey Police Staff Sgt. Lindsey Houghton said in an email to the Now-Leader that the black Tesla appeared to have gone into the ditch and flipped onto its roof in the 131A block of Colebrook Road.
Tesla crash more than ever, and much faster than they are made. So many crash, Tesla can’t keep up with replacing them.
Key Observations: Data clearly shows that both serious incidents (orange line) and fatal incidents (pink line) are increasing at a steeper rate than the fleet size growth (blue line). This is particularly evident from 2021 onwards, where: Fleet size (blue) shows a linear growth of about 1x per year. Serious incidents (orange) show an exponential growth curve, reaching nearly 5x by 2024. Fatal incidents (pink) also show a steeper-than-linear growth, though not as dramatic as serious incidents. The divergence between the blue line (fleet growth) and the incident lines (orange and pink) indicates that incidents are indeed accelerating faster than the production/deployment of new vehicles. Source: Tesladeaths.com and NHTSA
Consider 2016 for documented evidence of fraud, when Elon Musk not only promised that Tesla driverless would be solved completely by 2017 but also SpaceX would put a man on Mars by 2022.
In reality SpaceX hasn’t even come close to Mars, even though NASA was able to do it very successfully 20 years ago now. Instead Musk has been grounded for exploding rockets and showering people with toxic debris.
Despite the setback, [fraudster Elon Musk] indicated optimism about the timeline for the next launch, suggesting it might proceed as early as next month. “Success is uncertain, but entertainment is guaranteed!” he quipped, sharing viral clips of the fiery event. Under FAA regulations, SpaceX must conduct a thorough investigation to identify corrective actions, which the agency will review before authorizing further launches.
It’s a wonder Tesla manslaughter robots haven’t been grounded for far worse, such as lighting California on fire.
He’s spreading clips of environmental disasters to generate attention, while indicating optimism, calling for deregulation, and apparently laughing all the way to the bank from increases in death and destruction for his own entertainment.
