Although junkyards reportedly have been filling up fast with new Tesla that fail under 10,000 miles, they may soon no longer accept the unique fire risks of such a poorly engineered vehicle.

When crews arrived, they found the black Tesla Model S, which had been lifted on a rack, in flames. The vehicle had been involved in a collision several months ago and had been sitting idle when it “spontaneously caught fire.” […] Firefighters were “unable to move it to a safe location to burn out,” and firefighters were hampered by the vehicle being blocked in by “millions of dollars in salvaged vehicles including Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Bentleys.” The fire, which took more than an hour to put out, remains under investigation. Similar “spontaneous” fires have been reported across the capital region in the past year, including a Tesla that caught fire on Highway 99 in May, a Tesla that burst into flames on Highway 50 in January and a Tesla that reignited multiple times in a wrecking yard last year.

Similar fires in a yard full of every vehicle make?

Tesla, Tesla, and… wait for it… Tesla.

Another day, another Tesla has burned its passengers alive after a veered crash into a tree.

You’re looking at a tree completely knocked off its roots.

Investigators say they found the bodies after putting the fire out, reiterating the fatal flaw with Tesla’s poorly designed door controls.

As commenters have pointed out many times, the emergency procedure for a Tesla door makes it a death trap.

The problem is that very few people know where these emergency releases are…. To make matters worse, Tesla does not instruct customers about that and does not label these releases in its cars. All info is restricted to the manuals and EGRs, which are only digital. If the vehicle fails or crashes, it is very unlikely that they will be accessible. […] To reach the manual releases for the rear doors, you have to remove a rubber mat at the bottom of their storage boxes. After that, you have to open a small plastic lid, which the TFL folks only managed to do with a flat-head screwdriver. Again, it is a procedure that demands tools and accurate information. Imagine if the car is on fire just after a crash…

We don’t have to imagine. The number of people killed in their Tesla from fire has grown to over 70, more than three times higher than the Ford Pinto.

It’s hard to say whether the victim of a Tesla crash would have survived, given the force of his “veered” impact with a tree, but the German press drop an huge bombshell in their report.

Offensichtlich wird im Tesla kein automatischer Crash-Notruf ausgelöst, der die nächstgelegene Polizeidienststelle alarmiert.

In other words…

Apparently, no automatic crash emergency call is triggered in the Tesla to alert the nearest police station.

The driver lay dying in the car on a country road until other cars passed by and called in the accident (meaning there was sufficient cell coverage). By then, the report says, attempts to save the Tesla driver’s life were hopeless.

This would not not be the case with other cars in Europe, which is only implied by the reporter without being said. Porsche, for example, allegedly had its fatality rate drop to zero after it engineered an advanced automatic crash notification system.

Most new cars feature built-in technology that can automatically call for help in an emergency and give the precise location of the vehicle, even if drivers are unable to do so themselves. Called automatic crash notification, or ACN, it uses a car’s built-in cellular connection or a paired phone to immediately alert first responders of a crash. (If your vehicle has such a system, you’ll probably also see a red SOS button somewhere on the ceiling near the rearview mirror that lets you call for help manually.) The technology has been in widespread use in the U.S. since OnStar debuted in 1996, and it’s now mandatory in all new cars sold in most of Europe.

Mandatory in new cars sold in Europe?

And yet, Tesla either doesn’t have one or it wasn’t reliable enough for their typical crash into a tree.

I really fail to understand why anyone would buy a new Tesla. But because they do, we have TechCrunch news like this.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is investigating 280,000 Tesla vehicles over reports of loss of steering control and power steering. The malfunctioning has frequently been accompanied by driver-facing messages indicating that power steering assist is reduced or disabled, according to the report.

The preliminary evaluation into 2023 Model 3 and Model Y vehicles comes after regulators received 12 complaints from owners…

It’s actually worse than it sounds.

Model 3 driver reported in May the “car steering felt stuck and slid off the road which resulted in crashing into a tree.”

All the new Tesla being rushed to market, literally delivered in the last month or so, already have produced over a dozen critical safety failure complaints including the car steering malfunctioning into a crash with a tree.

At what point does the government have an obligation to order Tesla to stop sales, or even production?

It reminds me of the guy who was almost immediately killed in a suspicious intersection crash after he took delivery of a new Tesla. And also reminds me of the two guys burned alive in front of their friends, after Tesla suddenly steered into a tree.

Tesla safety is so abnormally abysmal, it makes any and all the other car manufacturers look like they actually care about human lives.

Related: multiple Tesla owners around America have been dying from recent sudden “veered” crashes into trees.