The buried lede in an alarming story about sudden massive combustion causing environmental disaster is that Tesla owners really DGAF about quality or safety.

…even if his just went up in flames. “I still love the Tesla and probably going to order another one,“ said Lippe.

Lippe service.

We see here the real reason why Tesla seems desperate to produce cars faster.

Men like Lippe “love” to buy and dispose of them over and over again like bulk packs of cheap white tube socks.

The news report also takes an interesting shot at Tesla, pointing out the soulless mediocre car company dumps fatal design defects onto public roads yet ignores the first responders who have to clean up the mess.

It’s a known issue, Tesla has a list of first responder guides for its different models, while companies like General Motors have special E-V emergency training for first responders.

Tesla has guides. And the guides suck.

Subtle slam, right? If you blinked you might have missed it. GM indeed has been providing in person training and hands on education to first responders.

They actually care about the full lifecycle of engineering, holding a systemic view of transit. It includes significantly reducing taxpayer burden for any emergency, as well as lowering risks to people and the environment.

I was just meeting with one of the team who quickly reduced Porsche deaths to zero through novel engineering changes related to early GM safety innovations. It was some big picture stuff based on the science of ethics. You might not know or hear about it, which is the point. They aren’t in the news by design.

Tesla? DGAF. First responders get a blank stare, stale and incomplete documents and contact details that go nowhere. Known unsafe cars are sold on false promises, which generate constant bad news like this story. Tesla’s “profit” is from making someone, anyone else pay for their bad decisions.

And on that note, many other cars called in the NC road debris. Because road debris is a thing car engineers are supposed to think about, those calls were just about flat tires.

In a call from 4:08 p.m., the caller says that they got multiple flat tires and collided with a piece of metal, which they say may have hit a few other cars as well. […] Another caller from around the same time said that pieces of metal had fallen out of a pickup truck and caused two cars to get flat tires, and the metal was still in the road. About five minutes later, a third caller said that the car they were driving got a flat tire after a metal object fell from a truck.

Those calls should probably have immediately triggered a ban on any Tesla from that road, because they clearly are incapable of handling such common things on their own. The reporter again cast serious shade on Tesla.

…right after he hit the debris the car was still drivable but drivers around him had reason to be alarmed. “A truck driver next to me opened up his window and was pointing frantically. So I pulled off into the breakdown lane. And when I got out you can see flames from underneath the car in the front,” said Lippe.

The car was still drivable?

Uh, NO. Being on fire and about to be totally consumed is not drivable.

A flat tire is more drivable.

Luckily a truck driver intervened using an open window and somehow injected a dose of reality into this Tesla owner’s empty head.

Speaking of which did you know Tesla designed their own truck to make human interaction impossible not least of all with windows that can’t be opened?

Fail unsafe designs combined with gross negligence/ignorance of common risk perhaps translates to an immediate widespread stop order. Tesla manufactures the exact opposite of drivability.

Or to put it more cynically, if someone wants to destroy Teslas at scale, or wants to deplete emergency response capacity, they need only to strategically deploy simple road debris.