Despite a decade of heated rhetoric and windy hype from Tesla about its sensors being safe for public use, the brand keeps killing pedestrians.
A homeless woman died Saturday after she was hit and killed by the driver of a Tesla in San Jose, according to the victim’s family.
The victim, Susie Beaochan, was allegedly hit near Columbus Park at the intersection of Coleman Avenue and Asbury Street.
Homeless advocates told KRON4’s Jack Molmud that the driver ran through a crosswalk.
The driver claims drinking a coffee was all it took for the Tesla to be completely destroyed.
The Tesla veered off the freeway, crashed through a perimeter fence, crossed both lanes of the Frontage Road, and slammed into an embankment. The impact caused the vehicle to catch fire, and by the time firefighters arrived, it was fully engulfed. Crews with the Victorville Fire Department quickly extinguished the flames, but the car was completely destroyed.
Drove into an embankment and was completely destroyed by fire? That design doesn’t sound right.
The buried lede is that Tesla actively suppressed or destroyed evidence that would solve thousands of cases against them.
Is Tesla’s autopilot really as advanced as he says?
The Tesla Files suggest otherwise. They contain more than 2,400 customer complaints about unintended acceleration and more than 1,500 braking issues – 139 involving emergency braking without cause, and 383 phantom braking events triggered by false collision warnings. More than 1,000 crashes are documented. A separate spreadsheet on driver-assistance incidents where customers raised safety concerns lists more than 3,000 entries. The oldest date from 2015, the most recent from March 2022.
And the numbers only increase after 2022.
From the BBC comes an assessment of the original and real American Superman.
“…it blew my mind when I saw it. He’s essentially a violent socialist.” The earliest issues of Action Comics bear out this assessment. When there are wrongs to be righted, Superman knocks down doors and dangles suspects from fifth-storey windows, and he makes hearty jokes while he’s doing so: “See how easily I crush your watch in my palm? I’ll give your neck the same treatment!”
…of the people who are roughed up by this boisterous outlaw…the majority are so wealthy that they don’t need to rob banks: there is the mine owner who skimps on safety measures, the construction magnate who sabotages a competitor’s buildings, the politician who buys a newspaper in order to turn it into a propaganda sheet. Rather than being a typical costumed crime-fighter, then, the Superman of 1938 was a left-wing revolutionary.
The S was for being an American socialist, a super one at that.
