A new Cybertruck customer was absolutely thrilled to take delivery of his brand new $100K Tesla vehicle until, like many other owners complaining loudly to social media, he ran into a serious malfunction… and another one… and another one…

If they have to drill to open a new frunk can it be called the Tesla… drunk?

I’ll be here all week.

But seriously, is there some kind of humiliation fetish going on here where people aim to generate attention through posting how horrible a Cybertruck experience is with all the terrible things they have to suffer because of it?

I’m reminded of a San Francisco woman who thought she’d attract readers by writing about taking a dining tour of the bottom ten worst-rated restaurants in the city, despite health-code violations and worse. After two or three she ended up in the hospital… writing about how stupidly unsafe her idea was.

Apparently the steering design flipped the truck upside down.

…debris on the road shows that it must have tried to turn at high speed but failed to do so, went over the center line, hit the steep embankment on the other side of the road, and flipped over.

…the Cybertruck with its belly up in Mississippi is far from being the first accident involving a Cybertruck. The model has been involved in several crashes since Tesla started deliveries on November 30, 2023.

With so many crashes and safety recalls already in its first six months, despite very low volume of sales, this may be recorded as proof that Ford Pinto critics were right.

The market is still slow to fully recognize this failed company, as many shameless investors try to claim it can escape exploding technical debt and lawsuits.

Tesla’s global sales fell for the second straight quarter despite price cuts and low-interest financing offers, another sign of weakening demand for the company’s products and electric vehicles overall. …”In a nutshell, the worst is in the rearview mirror for Tesla,” [a big investor] wrote. The company, he wrote, cut 10% to 15% of its workforce…

High rates of customer loss, and then staff fired to achieve profits, doesn’t make for a compelling investment story.

Tesla insurance evidently has stopped payments.

A Marble Falls man said a hail storm damaged his Tesla back in April, and he’s still waiting on Tesla Insurance to step up.

Allegedly a red light in a very large Albequerque intersection didn’t stop a driver who then hit a Tesla, killing one of two people inside.

A preliminary investigation indicated that a grey Dodge Dakota pickup truck driven by Sandoval-Martinez was traveling northbound on Coors Blvd. NW in the middle lane at a high rate of speed, and ran a red light, according to police. […] The driver of the Tesla, 22-year-old Tiger Gutierrez, and the passenger were critically injured and were taken to UNMH. Gutierrez died at the hospital, while the passenger remains in critical condition.

Controversially, Tesla repeatedly misleadingly markets itself as the “safest car ever built“, on the premise it cares about and counts every fatality. Furthermore the company fraudulently markets itself as capable of “collision avoidance“.

Perhaps Forbes put it best:

Tesla’s number give a very incorrect impression — so incorrect that it is baffling why they publish them when this has been pointed out many times by many writers and researchers. Oddly, Tesla has the real data — they have the best data in the world about what happens to their vehicles. The fact that they could publish the truth but decline to, and instead publish numbers which get widely misinterpreted raises the question of why they are not revealing the full truth, and what it is that they don’t reveal.

Against all the PR comes real world news of fatalities; people regularly being killed by Tesla.

Nothing to see here, just another Tesla dealer unable to prevent their cars from destroying themselves.

Crews responded to the vehicle fire in front of a Tesla showroom on Granite Drive around 4:40 p.m.

If the dealer can’t prevent a new car from dying in a fire, then nobody can. Who is responsible?

Update: Tesla is spreading the theory that the bushes next to their cars caught on fire first, and the dealer let it spread to their new cars parked nearby. I’m not sure why they think this is better. A dealer couldn’t move two of its cars away (e.g. summon?) from a bush that caught on fire, let alone pour some water out?