Exclusive: “There’s my challenge to Elon,” attorney S. Scott West told The Independent. “Make these vehicles so safe that I don’t have to do this anymore.”
A Tesla Cybertruck owner in Texas was unable to escape after rolling it into a ditch last year, experiencing an unthinkable demise as the batteries powering the $100,000 stainless steel SUV burst into flames with such intensity the helpless driver’s skeletal system literally disintegrated, his family says.
Michael Sheehan, 47, “burned to death at 5,000°F – a fire so hot his bones experienced thermal fracture,” according to a gut-wrenching lawsuit his widow and parents have now filed against the electric auto manufacturer headed up by billionaire Elon Musk.
“He was eight inches shorter in length than he was before he burned,” attorney S. Scott West told The Independent. “That’s thermal fracture.”
Are you factoring in the fact that there have been substantially more Tesla’s sold than a Ford Pinto? Like, what’s the per 100,000 units car sold metric?
27 people dying in explosions from a single car model is a really high number. This compares DEATHS from the Ford Pinto to FIRES for all models made by Tesla.
Edit: i don’t think I was paying attention when reading this
Assuming that 83 fatalities is up to date for Tesla vehicle fires, is 16 deaths distributed per model a good stat to you?
“Not great, not terrible”?
To be fair, nobody else has innovated in the mobile crematorium industry nearly as much
This stat seems to be just fire related deaths while the graph is all deaths.
We probably need to compare deaths or number of fire or deaths due to fire divided by number of miles driven per model. Or something like that.
Yeah and that’s also a really high number
Sheehan was driving home when the Cybertruck “left the road” and struck a large concrete culvert, after which the vehicle’s “hyper volatile” battery system went into “thermal runaway” – a chain reaction of short-circuits ultimately resulting in uncontrollable temperature escalation – and caught fire.
Once power was lost, it was impossible for Sheehan to open the Cybertruck’s electrically operated doors in the normal way, the complaint goes on, highlighting a major issue that has similarly doomed others riding in Teslas. The external door handles also failed to work, and the emergency manual door release handles within the Cybertruck are “unreasonably difficult to locate in an emergency,” the complaint states.
These design problems are so glaringly obvious that the fact Tesla hasn’t bothered to fix them gives big “fuck you” vibes. A company’s culture comes from the top.
Sure is good that DOGE got rid of everyone who was investigating Tesla.
they haven’t bothered to fix them because elon doesn’t give a fuck about dead people.
In Kanye voice “Elon Musk doesn’t care about dead people”
This should obviouslybe illegal, but you gotta be pretty fucking stupid to buy one in the first place.
Elon: If the bones disintegrated, how do you know anyone was even in there? 😏
I ket what ya mine
How appropriate that a Swastitruck cremates its drivers.
I’m sitting here wondering if the still, legally, need to go through a funeral home, or if the medical examiner just hands them a box and says “you guys are good”.
We anything be recoverable? I can’t imagine there was much of anything left.
There will be some extremely brittle but recognizable bone fragments. Crematories put the ashes through a pulverizer that turns them into a fine white powder. I can’t imagine there’s a lot though. And it would be a nightmare to… Scoop up?
It is beautiful.
Oh cool. The deathtrap also has “cremation mode” enabled. Saves everyone the trouble I suppose.
I wonder when Tesla will start charging extra for cremation mode
Depends if you want the “Watery Coffin mode” enabled too which does transfer upon sale of the vehicle. It’s part of the “Horrible Deaths” package that’s attached with additional almost-llegal blue tape to the frunk. It’s their way of saying thank you for buying their vehicle.
That’s 2,760 C. holy shit. poor guy. I’m so glad these hunks of rubbish are banned here in the UK
Load up batteries into a Swastikar with a massive number of recalls that was manufactured by a company run by an ultimate idiot who lives by “move fast and break things” …
What did you think you bought? Something good? 🤡 🫏 🖕 💩
Technician A: “Here’s where the infant went through the windshield. Three points.”
Technician B: "The teenager’s braces around the backseat ashtray would make a good “anti-smoking” ad.
Technician A: "The father must’ve been huge. See how the fat burnt into the driver’s seat with his polyester shirt? Very “modern art.”
Mmm cha mmm mm cha Mmm cha mmm mm cha
Single serving sugar
Single serving
okay but that’s pretty fucking metal
I’d say the cybertruck is quite the opposite: ugly fucking metal
pretty ugly metal?
You signed your death warrant when you bought an Incel Camino
The Camino was cool as shit. The swastidumpster looks like a stoned 3 year old drew it with what was left after snacking on a crayon
Funny because the German word “Kamin” means fireplace and chimney
So, a mobile crematorium. How apt.
Fitting for a Nazi car really
The perfect fake death.
Take out huge loan. Take out massive life insurance policy. Flip Tesla. Ignite.
Idk, head to somewhere with no extradition by cargo boat or some shit.
Edit: okay there’s a flaw. You gotta drive a cyber truck.
Just pretend you’re German and go to Venezuela.
a 100k charcuterie machine, a mobile crematorium, or a venison slicer. a swiss army knife of cars.
It’s all computers!
5 out of 10: Shit car; great Viking funeral.
