This story ends with the owner fortunately not dying, instead admitting to reporters that he had been warned Tesla was unsafe.

A Tesla owner says the steering wheel locked up while he was driving Wednesday morning, forcing him to smash into the front of a Noe Valley corner store.

Raymond LaPointe told The Standard he was alone in his Model Y, which he has owned for three years, and was driving it manually when his steering wheel suddenly seized up. The collision with Noe Hill Market left him with scrapes but no other injuries.

“I don’t drive it that much. I’ve heard of other people having some issues, but I never experienced it. But now that it happened to me, I’m rattled — very rattled,” LaPointe said. “I bought the Tesla before I knew Elon Musk was an asshole. Now I don’t like the car.”

Nobody should like the car, independent of the CEO, given how it is manifestly unsafe by simple objective measures. But once they dislike the CEO, one of the most compelling reasons is the same reason to immediately sell the car — his repeated intentional fraud regarding safety means every single Tesla is unsafe to operate in public.