A preliminary investigation indicated that a grey Dodge Dakota pickup truck driven by Sandoval-Martinez was traveling northbound on Coors Blvd. NW in the middle lane at a high rate of speed, and ran a red light, according to police. […] The driver of the Tesla, 22-year-old Tiger Gutierrez, and the passenger were critically injured and were taken to UNMH. Gutierrez died at the hospital, while the passenger remains in critical condition.
Tesla’s number give a very incorrect impression — so incorrect that it is baffling why they publish them when this has been pointed out many times by many writers and researchers. Oddly, Tesla has the real data — they have the best data in the world about what happens to their vehicles. The fact that they could publish the truth but decline to, and instead publish numbers which get widely misinterpreted raises the question of why they are not revealing the full truth, and what it is that they don’t reveal.
Against all the PR comes real world news of fatalities; people regularly being killed by Tesla.
Tesla dealership with its cars on fire. Source: Rocklin Fire Departmet
Nothing to see here, just another Tesla dealer unable to prevent their cars from destroying themselves.
Crews responded to the vehicle fire in front of a Tesla showroom on Granite Drive around 4:40 p.m.
If the dealer can’t prevent a new car from dying in a fire, then nobody can. Who is responsible?
Update: Tesla is spreading the theory that the bushes next to their cars caught on fire first, and the dealer let it spread to their new cars parked nearby. I’m not sure why they think this is better. A dealer couldn’t move two of its cars away (e.g. summon?) from a bush that caught on fire, let alone pour some water out?
“The Brave Cyclist: The True Story of a Holocaust Hero”, by Amalia Hoffman
Gino Bartali arguably was one of the best cyclists in history. Sure, he won the Giro d’Italia twice, in 1936 and 1937, and the Tour de France in 1938. But it’s what came next that many are interested in the most. He was sitting on top of the world of cycling when WWII broke out and his career was diverted into conscripted service as a messenger for the Italian fascist dictatorship.
After the 1943 arrest of the Chief Rabbi of Florence, (Nathan Cassuto, sent to Auschwitz and murdered 1945), Bartali began secret work with the Archbishop of Florence, Elia Dalla Costa. They pivoted on his cycling fame to enact anti-fascist heroism. Franciscan friars in the city of Assisi (110 miles from Florence) generated fake documents, which Bartali would then pickup and deliver for the Archbishop.
The BBC tells the story of how the cyclist would say “I’m training” for a simple transit authorization hack to save hundreds of Jewish lives.
Donning his race jersey with his name printed across the back and leaving home with only emergency tools for the bike, he rode thousands of miles from Florence to Genoa and Assisi carrying [identity papers for Jews trying to escape].
Based on this act alone, he is credited for saving the lives of more than 500 people.
For Bartali, his status as a champion cyclist was the ultimate disguise. Whenever he was stopped enroute, he would simply say “I am training”, and no one questioned him further.
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Other than being a courier, Bartali’s champion status allowed him to work with partisans to create a paparazzi scenario that distracted soldiers and guards away from the train carriages so refugees could board and hide until the train reached the free south.
Yet, he kept this life a secret for most of his life after the war. Bartali believed that by talking up his good deeds, he betrayed the people he had helped as it became an act of self-promotion rather than genuine intentions.
Facing punishment of torture and execution, Bartali smuggled documents inside his bike’s hollow frame to defeat fascism.
When Bartali was stopped and searched, he specifically asked that his bicycle not be touched since the different parts were very carefully calibrated to achieve maximum speed.
He also hid a Jewish family in his cellar until Allied forces liberated Italy. He didn’t just convince fascists he was training hard by riding far and fast, he even hauled “weight” trailers behind his bike and right under their noses with people hidden inside.
“Some medals are pinned to your soul, not your jacket,” he said.
“Bartali’s Bicycle: The True Story of Gino Bartali, Italy’s Secret Hero”, by Megan Hoyt
After WWII ended, Bartali won the Giro d’Italia again in 1946, and the Tour de France again in 1948, which everyone can see plainly. But he kept his most important rides secret and only recently has been recognized for those victories.
A documentary called “Messenger of Peace” gives even more detail to his amazing story.
The crash happened around 5:35 p.m. on County Road 150 West just south of County Road 400 North in Plain Township. Police say a Tesla was heading north on 150 when it crossed the center line and crashed head-on into a southbound Chevrolet.
The driver of the Chevrolet, identified as 44-year-old Joseph Criswell of Milford, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police say six other passengers in that vehicle who were children suffered various injuries. Two girls were airlifted to the hospital while another girl was taken to the hospital by ambulance.
A man driving six children was just killed by a direct hit from Tesla. Without fraud there would be no Tesla, and without Tesla there would be… hundreds of funerals fewer. This crash reminds me of a similar story in California, when 3 in a family of 9 were killed by a “veered” Tesla.
Failing to stay in a lane — basic level two stuff — is a very common problem for Tesla, as I’ve caught about a half dozen such fatal “veered” crashes by Tesla in the news just this past month.
