A lawsuit filed by the family of a worker killed by Tesla has published some preliminary findings.

Attorneys for the Gomez family claim that he was working as part of contruction at a Tesla facility called Gigafactory Texas. There, while inspecting electric panels prior to activation, Gomez was fatally electrocuted by an already energized panel.

Journalists rightly point out the Texas factory has been regularly failing to protect staff from harms, causing multiple workplace tragedies.

The father-of-seven was pronounced dead on arrival at Dell Seton Medical Center at The University of Texas in Austin on the same day, soon after the tragic incident. While not the first worker death at the facility, Gomez’s electrocution comes after DailyMail.com revealed how a Tesla engineer was attacked by a robot during a brutal and bloody malfunction at the Giga Texas factory in a separate safety failure onsite.

OSHA is investigating. The U.S. safety regulator has always ranked Tesla as the most poorly run car maker, given a long history of predictable and avoidable safety failures (including a racist environment), so it’s unclear why this brand is even still allowed to operate.

Anyone headed to work at a Tesla factory, especially in Texas, must ask themselves is today their day to die? Are they ready for Elon Musk to carelessly throw their life away and leave their children without a parent?

The construction of Tesla’s Texas factory was marred with injuries, safety complaints, and even death. Now that construction has ceased, however, and the plant is fully operational, it should be well and truly safe for the workers it employs. Right? Right?

Not so, according to a new report from the Information. In fact, it sounds like things may have only gotten worse for Tesla workers down in Austin, who supposedly stand a one-in-21 risk of injury on the job.

That was 2023. The risk is perhaps even higher as time goes on, given the Texas government prevents protection of certain human lives.

Texas, the only state without universal workers’ comp, leads the nation in workplace injuries and deaths. It’s Latino workers on unregulated construction sites who fare the worst.

Or, to be even more clear, here’s what The Onion said in 2021 about a certain racist South African moving factories to Texas:

Data scientists who read this blog have confirmed to me privately that the Tesla robots have a problem crashing into poles (including trees). On a related note the total recall of another brand has specifically called out “driverless” software failing to properly see and avoid poles.

With that in mind, yet another Tesla has crashed into a pole at high speed. Autopilot failure is suspected, not yet confirmed.

Three people are in hospital after a Tesla and ambulance crashed in the Brisbane CBD.

The black Model 3 sedan collided with street poles before rear-ending the ambulance about 3pm on Ann Street, between Central Station and King George Square.

It crashed at such high speed it continued crashing into more poles before finally being stopped by… an ambulance. Two emergency responders are said to have been hospitalized by the Tesla crashing into them. In other words, even multiple poles were unable to stop a Tesla from dangerously impacting an ambulance and its crew.

The Brisbane Times points out how this single car crash had a response more like a terrorist attack.

More than a dozen police, paramedics and firefighters remain on the scene. “It was so loud we could hear it from the 18th floor,” one onlooker told Brisbane Times. […] Eight emergency vehicles have been called to the street.

Imagine now if the CEO pushed a button for ten of his remote controlled Tesla robotaxis to crash like this into critical infrastructre. Would 80 emergency vehicles need to be called? And if 100 remote Tesla robotaxis got the order to attack in Australia, are there even 800 emergency vehicles available to respond?

It’s not a coincidence that the company run by a white supremacist has sold the idea of an 88 kWh engine with 88 features driving itself at 88 km/h to a site with 88 charging stations… on 8/8.

Think of the racist UK riots as the Tesla 8/8 Robotaxi reveal. And then look at the damage this one robot has caused.

Tesla repeatedly fails basic engineering tests, as it designs for happy paths and barely if ever considers real world conditions. Rain? They didn’t think about that.

The brand arrogantly claimed FSD 12.5 to be a vastly improved product over prior versions, simply and rapidly iterating a number to distract from fundamental failures and actual assessments. It’s a 10, it’s an 11, it’s a 12… it’s still just a complete disaster that can’t be said to operate safely. Call it version 3,000 and it still doesn’t change the horrible smell of fraud.

Case in point, a new report confirms what anyone could predict, version 12.5 of FSD isn’t worth a penny and will probably kill people.

For starters, it took a wrong turn out of the neighborhood, something the drivers said it struggles with. Then, while making a left turn onto a highway, it dangerously stopped in the middle of the road while waiting for an approaching car to pass. Instead, it could have simply stopped before the marked line.

Yeah, it dangerously failed. And it gets even worse from there.

The rain compromised the car’s vision, too. Tesla only relies on cameras and training its “neural networks” from real driving footage from millions of vehicles. Unlike Cruise or Waymo, there’s no supplemental radar or lidar on Teslas. In the middle of the drive, the system alerted the drivers that FSD was “degraded.” Shortly after that, the Model 3’s screen rendering showed a road-side shoulder, where it attempted to make a U-turn. There existed no shoulder in this imagined space, just a furniture store. It appeared as though the EV was trying to [crash into] the store….

The “Kool AI Man” product of Tesla, as I’ve pointed out before, is an unnecessary and predictable threat to public safety.