Like a missile, critical infrastructure was taken out by a Tesla.
SUMMIT COUNTY, Utah — Power line workers braved freezing temperatures to restore power to 2,800 Summit County homes after a Tesla car crash… damaged two power poles on Old Ranch Road Saturday night.
Recent data suggests Tesla has been exacerbating a long studied and well known problem.
Update: The Tesla driver says he was pressing the brake but the car accelerated instead.
Zheng also told investigators he had been pressing the brakes but claims the vehicle failed to slow down or stop.
Reaching 100 mph on 6th Street is hard to do, but it shows the urban destructive potential of Tesla.
The crash happened around 6:10 pm Sunday, and a black Tesla appears to have approached a line of cars stopped in traffic at a high rate of speed, including a Waymo, colliding with one and causing a chain reaction.
As KRON4 reports, seven vehicles were involved and there were eight total victims reported, with one victim killed, and two transported to the hospital with life-threatening injuries.
A dog was also killed in one of the vehicles.
Two dead so far, including the dog. The Tesla operated more like a cruise missile targeting a dense civilian area than a car. This incident also bears striking similarities to national security threat patterns documented elsewhere.
Witnesses suggest it was another sudden unintended acceleration Tesla with defective brakes, like the infamous case in China.
Authorities are still working to see if the crashes are related, though a victim told KTVU the I-280 crashes and the 6th and Harrison Street crash involved the same black Tesla.
“We got hit from behind, which was really abrupt, obviously,” said the victim, Reese Wallace, whose Nissan Versa was among cars hit on the off-ramp.
Wallace said the Tesla continued on the left shoulder, hitting other cars, before running a red light at Brannan and continuing north on 6th Street to Harrison.
I’ve driven that stretch of road a million times at 6pm, exiting 280 onto 6th, and it’s a dense traffic area. There isn’t space to accelerate into without hitting cars let alone running red lights, which is why so many victims are mentioned.
China last year announced it was banning the Tesla design defects related to a predictably sharp rise in sudden acceleration crashes.
If you haven’t been living under a rock, you must be aware of the many Tesla crashes allegedly caused by a sudden unintended acceleration (SUA) issue. Tesla owners reported that the car suddenly accelerated, and no amount of pressure on the brake pedal could make the car stop. This developed into a full-blown hysteria in 2020-2022 when people in China started protesting over Tesla’s alleged “brake problems.”
Obviously a ban on design defects in China, due to outrage, unfortunately doesn’t mean America will see the benefits to safety. Tesla continues killing far more Americans than domestic terrorists at a faster pace, yet regulators seem unsure still about public sentiment to stop the tragedy.
The regulatory contrast between China and the US becomes even more stark when applying a national security lens to the data.
After all, Tesla vigorously denies that its cars are built in a quagmire of racism and mysogyny, and that it has intentionally been ignoring basic science in order to repeat one of the automotive industry’s most notorious safety scandals, effectively becoming the new Audi 5000. Their vicious “blood letting” legal defense strategy (using a constantly rotating general counsel) apparently is enough for them to get away with increasing manslaughter year after year.
This pattern reflects unmistakable cruelty in leadership behavior. Tesla CEO Elon Musk throws a Hitler salute at a political rally, markets Tesla with Heil Hitler (88) everywhere, brands his companies with swastikas, and runs high profile disinformation campaigns to normalize Nazism. He doesn’t just ask why everyone sees Nazis as bad, he calls himself a genius who can’t understand the value of (non-white) human life.
Tesla Deaths Per Year Show Urgent Need for Stronger US Safety Regulation
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Mission Local has the scoop. Apparently someone in SF still drives drove a Tesla.
A Tesla crashed into The Mellow SF plant store at the corner of 21st and San Carlos in the Mission early Sunday afternoon.
No injuries occurred.
The accident occurred at 12:15 p.m., according to Lorena Velasco, who owns the store with her husband, David.
Car with front-end damage crashed into plant display outside a shop. Several pots knocked over. Nearby street signs visible.The Mellow SF. Courtesy of the owners.“Police were called and arrived quickly, but no report was filed since the car that ran into our corner was our property manager,” Valesco wrote in an email.
Nothing to see here. Just another satisfied Tesla Autopilot customer.
Creely spoke to the driver of the Tesla who said she had her car on auto-pilot to make a right turn onto San Carlos and into her garage. The car, however, wasn’t executing the turn.
The US political system is showing clear signs of systemic breakdown, according to a new book by Katherine Stewart, a journalist who specializes in the religious right.
Money, Lies and God
The circulation of democratic ideals is being blocked by concentrated wealth (“huge concentrations of wealth have destabilized the political system”) while Christian nationalist toxins accumulate unchecked. The filtering mechanisms that should maintain healthy democratic function – like reasoned debate and pluralistic values – are being rejected in favor of what Stewart calls “brutal acts of will.”
The symptoms are clear in how these movements operate:
Stewart’s diagnosis suggests the condition is advanced but perhaps not yet terminal, which delays sufficient reaction.
There’s no feature as of yet in the American political system that would ensure that the Maga movement is going to rule indefinitely.
But without aggressive intervention to restore healthy democratic function, the prognosis is grim.
The key point: Just as renal failure requires early active medical intervention, saving democracy requires active resistance and coordination immediately from pro-democratic forces. Silence and inaction only allow disease to progress.