The Cybertruck was advertised as a go anywhere, survive anything vehicle. Instead it has turned out to be a windbag that pops on the slightest challenge.
“Bring a trailer” is the constant comment about the Tesla truck design, which fails or falls apart daily. This one shows the typical cracked windows and wheels falling off.
I didn’t see a car at first until I had just passed the ambulance and saw a Cybertruck in among the trees. All I can figure is that either the brakes or the steering went out as he was taking the curve and he went off the road. That particular curve isn’t all that sharp, so I don’t think that speed was a major issue. Dude was lucky it didn’t fail on one of the other curves and go off the side of the mountain.
The CHP report on August 7th at 1:48PM suggests the truck “WAS HIGH SPEEDS PRIOR” when it lost control and bent — “NOT KNOCKED OVER” — the 30 mph sign on its way into the trees.
CHP responded to State Route 296, just north of Ford Avenue, outside Coalinga, just before 1:30 a.m. on Saturday.
Officers say a man was driving a truck in the southbound lane when the driver of a Tesla heading northbound went into the southbound lane. A passenger inside the Tesla died at the scene. Both drivers were taken to Community Regional Medical Center with significant injuries.
It’s unknown why the man driving the Tesla was in the wrong lane. Authorities don’t believe alcohol or drugs are factors in the crash.
CHP responding to a head-on collision around 0130 on a straight rural highway? Autopilot is suspected. Another report puts the crash time closer to 0030.
For reasons yet to be determined, officers say the Tesla veered into the southbound lane, directly in the path of the GMC. The driver of the Tesla reportedly attempted to avoid crashing, however, the GMC ultimately collided with the passenger side of the Tesla.
The driver tried to avoid crashing? A truck doing nothing wrong “ultimately collided” with a Tesla driving at high speed into its path? That’s a weird way to frame fault for a robot driving head-on into traffic. Apparently the Tesla owner has claimed he fought with his robot for control, similar to design failures that caused the Boeing 737MAX tragedies.
It’s no secret Peter Thiel’s grandparents were Nazis who sent their family fortunes after losing WWII into South African apartheid, then somehow endied up with him meddling in the “business” of promoting American fascism.
In 2016, Peter Thiel, the contrarian billionaire and co-founder of PayPal, had been the only prominent Valley figure to support Trump, which merely confirmed…as the historian Adam Tooze put it in his landmark book on the period, …that German industrialists [like Thiel] were “willing partners in the destruction of political pluralism…”. In return for their [1933 end of democracy] donations, Tooze wrote, owners and managers of German businesses were granted unprecedented powers to control their workforce, collective bargaining was abolished and wages were frozen at a relatively low level. Corporate profits also rose very rapidly, as did corporate investment. Fascism turned out to be good for business – until it wasn’t.
…Thiel’s high profile role in the Trump transition is ripe with conflict of interest issues… Thiel’s reported proclivity for fascism and white nationalism adds another layer of concern to the red flag reported…
Many in the Thiel family apparently have been known for making headlines because of things like being caught as Nazi spies in America, trying to sabotage democracy, and for denying the Holocaust. (Notably, Thiel family members who dared to disagree with Nazism were killed).
As if the 2016 Trump disaster for America wasn’t enough of a red flag, Peter now has been caught, yet again, elevating himself even higher on the ignoble pile of generations peddling hate, disinformation and vile theory.
…the podcast was reposted on… Twitter, by user @jimstewartson… who said that Thiel’s comments about liberalism and democracy being exhausted were the same rhetoric Nazis used in Germany.
“This was precisely what the Nazis tried to sell to Germans, that Weimar was ‘too liberal’ and needed ‘strong leadership’ to save it from degeneracy,” Stewartson wrote. “I cannot emphasize enough that this psychopath will be running the country if we don’t protect this election.” The reposted clip was viewed over 1.4 million times by Monday morning.
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.
Cowboy costume is appropriated from Latinos (e.g. hat is a sombrero) and popular among white supremacists to replace their traditional Nazi garb.
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:
