People ask me why anyone would still own and operate Tesla. Given the constant news stories of fatally crashing into a tree, who still wants to be in or around one?

Investigators say Jose Garcia was involved in a single-vehicle crash that occurred at about 11:15 a.m. Friday in the 6800 block of Seminole Pratt Whitney Road in Loxahatchee. According to a sheriff’s report, Garcia was driving a 2022 Tesla sedan when, for reasons unknown, he failed to negotiate the curve and veered off the road.

The vehicle continued into a wooded area, where it struck a tree. Garcia was taken to Palms West Hospital where died less than an hour later.

Reasons unknown? Come on. Do the math. A Tesla that doesn’t follow the road at 11am on a clear day and crashes into a tree is known as a… Tesla. That’s what their design does.

The company still calls it stuff like collision avoidance, Autopilot or Full Self Driving when none of those phrases ever have been even remotely true.

I suppose it’s like asking who still smokes tobacco like they believe it’s doctor’s orders of the 1950s, not like it’s causing them and everyone else cancer this whole time?