Another day, another Tesla catastrophically plowed itself into a wall in Pennsylvania. A Tesla sedan smashed into a South Philadelphia building [at South 18th and Snyder streets] early Monday, leaving cinderblocks scattered on the ground and the air bags deployed in the car on New Year’s Day. In related Texas news, police say a driver … Continue reading Teslas Start Off New Year by Crashing Into Buildings, Again and Again
So many people have sent me this story from Forbes with a “OMG you’ve been validated” note that I have to repost it here just to acknowledge that I have seen it. Tesla drivers are the most accident-prone, according to a LendingTree analysis of 30 car brands. It found that Tesla drivers are involved in … Continue reading Tesla Crash More Than Any Other Brand
The 2013 Tesla future-leaning hot-take sales pitches — the promise that rapidly throwing AI into cars magically would solve all dangers of driving — have been declared an official flop. As if we couldn’t already tell by 2016 it would make safety worse, given security analysis of the first Autopilot fatalities. Mounting safety tragedies including … Continue reading Every Tesla Recalled Due to High and Rising “Autopilot” Crashes
Details suggest the Tesla drifted on a wide curve and then spun into oncoming traffic. According to an Arkansas State Police preliminary fatal crash summary, 48-year-old Tourke Hooker, of Camden, was traveling south in a 2018 Tesla T3 when he negotiated a curve and lost control of the vehicle, rotating counter-clockwise and crossing the centerline … Continue reading AR Tesla Kills Two in “Veered” Crash