3 killed, 1 seriously injured in Tesla Cybertruck crash in Northern California

Alcohol and speed are the cause of _most_ fatalities on our roads. It's a pretty good bet.

I'm personally waiting for the story wherein a police officer finds an unattended child in one of these vehicles because the parents couldn't be bothered to bring their child somewhere. Much more likely to happen once these systems become more affordable.

EDIT: I'm wrong, it launched without it, but it's since been rolled out.

I like a fast car and I've done a little track time, etc. It's not the same as controlling a Camry and recognizing that would be reasonable.

The battery pack doesn't need to be compromised to allow this, and even a fault in the LV system will do it. Electrical fires take out ICE vehicles every day.

Most ICE vehicle fires are caused by electrical faults or oil leaks. Oil leaking onto a hot exhaust obviously isn't a factor in an EV, but nothing has really changed with respect to the electrical threat. On modern vehicles, fuel doesn't usually become a factor until the vehicle is well alight.

Any heavy vehicle with _friction_ brakes can generate enough heat to create fire, it turns out spinning metal is always a stored energy hazard regardless of how the motive power was originally supplied.

Plus upholstery is pretty flammable. They lace it with chemicals to try to retard that tendency but after a certain point they're going to light up and fuel the fire.

It sounds like one of the doors got popped open but the other victims were partially incapacitated or unable to find the release. Judging by the speed of impact, and shape of the body/chassis, it's likely they were alive after impact and burned to death.

"Other recalls covered rearview camera images that don’t activate immediately after shifting into reverse, trim pieces that can fall off, windshield wipers that can fail, and an incorrect font size on instrument panel warning lights. In April, the futuristic trucks were recalled to fix gas pedals that can get stuck in the interior trim."

I'm just imagining what SNL would look like if Ford fucked in that badly in that short a period of time, especially when you take into consideration other reported issues around trapped passengers in other vehicle models from the same manufacturer.