Reported by The Standard
A Tesla collided with a school bus in Sham Shui Po after failing to stop at the double white lines on Wednesday afternoon. According to the video recorded yesterday (Mar 6), it showed a Tesla, heading toward the junction of Tai Nan Street and Wong Chuk Street, and failing to stop at the road markings signalling a mandatory stop at the intersection and directly exited the Tai Nan Street.
It’s a fascinating machine, a real thing of beauty. The Charger, especially the Scat Pack variant, is full of thoughtful and detailed engineering that makes it a whole new class of EV.
…power can be unleashed via a button on the steering wheel, providing a 15-second boost. […] Dodge offers its already famous Fratzonic Chambered Exhaust sound generator to match the roar of a Charger Hellcat.
A pipe organ in a muscle car. That’s the most dark mod thing I’ve read in years. Only thing better would be if it literally had giant bone-shaking fire-breathing pipes sticking out of the sides.
Dodge really deserves credit for hitting it out of the ballpark with its old skool take on EV innovations.
When I hear a Hellcat’s tuned engine, honestly, the first thing that comes to my mind is a Totoro “Catbus” (ネコバス or Nekobasu).
Meeeooow.
Also I recall over a decade ago discussing with Pete Melvin “cigarette boats” in Florida as they drifted along the inter-coastal waterway, giant petroleum guzzling engines idling with gurgles as they tried to passively generate attention for being excessive and obnoxious. He said “I should build a shell around a tiny electric trawling motor and add some huge sound pipes”. And that’s why Pete’s a genius.
A design defect (Autopilot) is suspected after a Tesla abruptly veered off an overpass at high speed — hitting metal safety gates so hard they were wrapped around the car — and then became engulfed in flames on impact.
A Tesla crashed through the metal fencing on the Riverside Drive overpass and onto the center divider of the 134 Freeway below in the Griffith Park area late Sunday, March 3, 2024, bursting into flames and burning for an extended period of time. Two men were injured. … A section of the overpass fencing remains stuck to the front of the vehicle’s shell.
Photos from the scene make it fairly obvious that the southbound Tesla totally ignored an important curve to the right on Riverside Drive, and instead drove at full speed straight ahead across the northbound lane over a curb through a metal gate and off the overpass onto the lanes below.
Google Maps Street View:
Over and over again we see the absence of common sense, mixed with a lack of engineering talent, generating news of the Cybertruck failing at basic road safety (let alone survival).
In case this video isn’t clear, here’s a photo to show how the low quality cheap car suspension was trivially destroyed by an owner losing control and mounting a common obstacle, as I’ve warned about here before.
Related news:
1) Owners are angry at Elon Musk because his claims about a “buff” truck were deceptive. They discovered he meant they would have to spend many hours every day scrubbing their Cybertruck to stop the spread of ugly rust spots from any and all exposure to water.
2) “Cybertruck can’t tug [because the wheels will fall off]…. It seems we may have been duped by Tesla and Elon Musk”
The stupid, it burns.
