Recently, there was significant media attention surrounding a tragic incident involving a very wealthy woman and her daughter from Silicon Valley. They abruptly and mysteriously lost their lives when their Tesla suddenly “veered” into a tree and caught fire. The members of family who survived because they weren’t in a Tesla put up a gofundme page and raised $50K or more within days allegedly just for funeral costs.

What strikes me as peculiar is the emergence of a “Tesla community” that insisted on shaping the narrative and raising funds for the surviving family of the victims. It seems that if you own a Tesla, there is an expectation that fellow Tesla owners will express concern and support if such a tragedy occurs. This behavior resembles a clique or exclusive group, as they purposefully create harmful outcomes to society and then overlook the plight of others not part of their coin-operated community.

On the contrary, it appears that Tesla owners show little attention when a Tesla is involved in a fatal accident that claims the life of someone outside the car, particularly pedestrians.

A recent lawsuit illustrates this discrepancy clearly. The lawsuit reports a tragic and avoidable incident in 2020 where Mark Douglas Taylor experienced an attempted murder in Texas, allegedly as a result of Tesla’s poorly-engineered “Autopilot” feature. Taylor passed away after 16 months of intensive hospital care and costs, having become a quadriplegic and unable to recover from the attack. However, there was no comparable response from the “Tesla community” as seen in the Silicon Valley incident where the car owner was quickly suffocated and burned to death in her own vehicle explosion.

#Let’sGoMarkTaylor. $6,315 USD raised of $65,000 goal. 49 donations

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One fine morning in June 2020, as he was taking out the trash in front of his Dallas, TX, home, Mark Taylor, the 46-yr-old entrepreneur and married father of 3 teenagers, was run down by a man engrossed with his phone, trusting that his “self-driving” Tesla wouldn’t destroy any lives that day.

Mark survived 16 months, having gone through the hell of being struck by a Tesla at 45+mph as he was walking away from the trash cans on the street in front of his house, sustaining a grossly severe traumatic brain injury and body-wide catastrophic injuries that rendered him a severely brain-damaged quadriplegic unable to speak or communicate.