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Tesla Cybertruck prevented rescue of 3 victims in crash, authorities say – NBC Bay Area
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Old news... what's the update?
this post was submitted on 02 Mar 2025
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Burned alive bcz they partied to hard and crashed into a tree. First responders couldn't cut them out bcz Elon wanted to build a tank that could keep fascists alive. Turns out all you have to do is puncture the batteries and it becomes a crucible.
Wow that's a shitty headline. It makes it seem like the the truck went ED-209 in their ass. As far as I can tell from the article they couldn't be rescued because of the fire.
Well that and the fact the people inside and outside have tremendous difficulty opening a door or window if power fails.
In situations where emergency responders can't open a door, they try:
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To smash a window. Which is difficult if the window is designed to stop 9mm parabellum.
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Cut the door posts with the 'jaws of life'. Which is difficult if they can't smash the windows, and even more difficult to cut stainless steel bulletproof panels.
Basically the Cybertruck is the only commercial vehicle designed not to be opened.
I acknowledge there are manual ways to do this inside the car, but they are hidden and drivers (let alone occasional passengers) don't practice this, and so don't remember at times of stress.
These are specific points in UK road safety regulations and those are just 2 of the reasons why the UK banned the CT.
Yes it's a horrible thing to have happened, and I'm sorry for the loss of life, but from reading the article it's not clear how the vehicle being a cyber truck was a contributing factor. One person was rescued. To me it seems the real problem was the 19 year old driver that was drunk.
Edit: I hate Elon Musk too guys, calm down.
The accident was the drunken driver.
The fact that they couldn't get to the trapped victims was the Cybertruck.
I'm not sure which part of this is confusing.
A preliminary investigation revealed police were unable to extinguish the flames of a Tesla Cybertruck after a crash in Piedmont in November, trapping three and resulting in their deaths
It's explained right under the headline.
Please see this article for more information: https://medium.com/@davidsehyeonbaek/why-tesla-evs-catch-fire-and-why-victims-struggle-to-escape-8ec89e59760c
You're getting downvotes by the anti-Tesla hate. But you are correct.
It being a Cybertruck didn't really have anything to do with it. One person was saved, so clearly they were able to get into the vehicle and to the passengers.
Car fires happen all the time, people die in ICE car fires every day. There are an average of 33 car fires every hour in the US. But only the Tesla fires make headlines all the time.
But you are correct.
They are not. Teslas are well known for trapping and killing their riders.
Except at least one occupant was able to be saved from the vehicle... By a random nearby person, not even emergency personnel.
So clearly they were not trapped here, like you want to claim.
It wasn't a random passerby it was a motorist behind the tesla who saw the crash happen and immediately rendered aid - as the article explains.
Even they could only get 1 person out, so clearly the other three were trapped. No doubt by the intensity of temperature preventing further aid, if not because the electrics then failed trapping the other three.
Don't waste your breath on the Apartheid Manchild servicers. Especially the ones who can't read.
It wasn't a random passerby it was a motorist behind the tesla who saw the crash happen and immediately rendered aid
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My point was it was a random civilian that helped, not a trained first responder, like I already pointed out.
Or the other three were already dead from the crash itself. We don't know from the article, because yet again, the article doesn't actually mention anything new. There is no new information here that wasn't already obvious in November when this happened.
The Alameda County Coroner's Bureau said driver Soren Dixon, 19, and passengers Jack Nelson, 20, and Krysta Tsukahara, 19, suffocated from smoke inhalation. Burns contributed to the deaths, the bureau said.
Teslas are the only vehicle that require the occupants to open hidden compartments to access emergency door latches during a fire. So long as that "feature" exists, it should be presumed the cause of every occupant death in a fire until conclusively proven otherwise.
They aren't the only one, but you never see article about it on for other vehicles, and no one bothers to actually do any research anymore.
And not all models are the same. In my 2018 model 3 regularly has new riders open the emergency handle by sheer guess instead of the actual button.
But don't let reality get in the way of posting your assumptions as if they're facts.
They aren't the only one,
They are the only one. It is a travesty that they haven't been subject to a government recall.
In my 2018 model 3 regularly has new riders open the emergency handle by sheer guess instead of the actual button.
Gotcha. Incompetent with both ergonomics and emergency egress.
They can't even fucking standardize on an emergency feature?
Ah yes, I forgot that door handles are the exact same design in every vehicle from a manufacturer regardless of interior differences. Always the same handle no matter how badly it fits.
I've never had trouble opening a door. You have a Tesla though so you're probably used to having to explain to people how to do otherwise trivial things in your "car of the future". Like how to open the glove box, enter and exit the vehicle, etc.
No, 90% of people have no problem. The few that don't see the button on the door handle, usually go straight for the emergency handle. A very small percentage aren't the type to grab things randomly and just ask if they're not sure.
Everyone focuses on the dumbest takes and experiences, not the real world average. Actually owning a Tesla for the last 6 years and experiencing all of this personally, including long distance trips, and even supercharging on CA on those trips, made me realize just how most online posts about them aren't accurate.
And how defensive some people get when their opinion based solely on reading shit online is challenged by someone with actual experience.
No, 90% of people have no problem.
100% don't have trouble with my Toyota.
Everyone focuses on the dumbest takes and experiences, not the real world average.
It's completely legitimate criticism that Tesla makes ordinary things difficult for no benefit. In some Tesla's it can be damaging to the car to pull the "emergency handle." That's just legitimately stupid.
I get that "most of the time" everything is fine. But the fact that it's not "all of the time" is just... Why?
100% don't have trouble with my Toyota.
And I've seen people ask where the handle is in my buddy's BMW. There's always going to be idiots. Acting like those are the most common group, or even near the average, is stupid.
In some Tesla's it can be damaging to the car to pull the "emergency handle."
This is the case for most vehicles with frameless windows. They have to move the window up and down to seal against the frame and to clear the frame. Tesla isn't anywhere near the first company to have frameless windows, they've existed for several decades, since at least the 1980s. There are a few old vehicles that predate electric windows, and usually have common issues with weather sealing, so it wasn't common until after electric windows allowed for better sealing since the glass could move up under the frame after closing the door. With all of those, if you aren't opening the door in a way that moves the glass, or if the window mechanism is damaged or inoperable for any reason, there can be damage. No one ever likes to talk about those other cars though when this topic comes up, because that tends to undermine the general assumption that it's something only Tesla does.
Did you forget that every car has the exact same mechanism? Pull handle, door opens? On 90%+ of cars?
I'd like to jump in here and point out there is an easy solution to this...
Make a 2 stage handle. 1st stage opens the door with the electronics, pull the handle further to engage the manual override. This is what Ford does in the Mach-E.
So yeah, it's a shitty design to have the emergency door handle as a separate hidden feature.
Oh yes, I forgot that the exact shape and position of this handle is the exact same on those vehicles as well. None of them are the exact same, that's the entire point of the complaints.
Why was this article posted today? The article clearly states it happened the day before Thanksgiving. The preliminary investigation produced only the obvious, that everyone already knew, that the fire killed the passengers and somehow that's newsworthy? If it wasn't a Tesla this article wouldn't exist at all, and we all know that.
Not directed at OP, directed at the damned news.
Because the police's investigation was just published?
Did it provide any new info? We already knew the battery caught fire, because, the fire. And that's all the article really mentions.
The article also fails to give any context to put things into perspective, like good reporting should. Especially when it's not breaking news. It doesn't give any sort of context of how many car fires happen in general, or the number of drunk driving fatalities. It doesn't give any context at all, just creates a rage bait headline. Very successfully I might add.
Yes, we get it, you have a swasticar and you’re proud to own one.
Quite the contrary, because of the fascist running the company. But dipshits like you don't care.
4 hours ago you wrote:
„In my 2018 model 3 regularly has new riders open the emergency handle by sheer guess instead of the actual button.“
I guess that means you sold it in the last 4 hours.
You claimed I had pride in owning it. A vehicle purchased 6 years ago, when there were no real viable EV alternatives below $80k and well before the current extreme bullshit from Musk, and that I've clearly commented already with the opposite attitude.
It's not your first incorrect assumption I'm sure. But it's clear from your attitude in comments that you feel like you're superior to others and seem to have a black and white view of things when reality is anything but black and white. So go ahead and live in your little fantasy world, at least they know you there.
Fair enough, maybe I was wrong about you being proud to own one. But I wasn’t wrong about you owning one. And that ownership still means something, whether you like it or not.
The reality is: people have died because of Tesla’s design choices. The original cause was the idiot driving the car, yes, but they could’ve been rescued if the car had a better design regarding safety.
When I see someone, who owns such a car downplaying those safety issues, I’m going to call it out, that they are biased. Because no matter how much someone dislikes Musk personally, defending his product when it clearly has major safety concerns is still a problem