this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2025
534 points (96.5% liked)

Technology

72425 readers
3257 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
L4s@hackingne.ws
534
‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 1 day ago by bytesonbike@discuss.online to c/technology@lemmy.world
107 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

The car came to rest more than 70 metres away, on the opposite side of the road, leaving a trail of wreckage. According to witnesses, the Model S burst into flames while still airborne. Several passersby tried to open the doors and rescue the driver, but they couldn’t unlock the car. When they heard explosions and saw flames through the windows, they retreated. Even the firefighters, who arrived 20 minutes later, could do nothing but watch the Tesla burn.

At that moment, Rita Meier was unaware of the crash. She tried calling her husband, but he didn’t pick up. When he still hadn’t returned her call hours later – highly unusual for this devoted father – she attempted to track his car using Tesla’s app. It no longer worked. By the time police officers rang her doorbell late that night, Meier was already bracing for the worst.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

'96 and '05 pickup trucks I keep flogging along for work, '05 SUV that's owned by my wife. They aren't going to last forever but I'm going to try.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I'm helping by using it as little as possible.

I like electric cars well enough for their simplicity and acceleration. It's all the other computerised gubbins they hang off them that I dislike, and Teslas are the worst for that.

I saw an old VW Beetle that had been converted to electric on the road recently. I wonder how hard/expensive it would be to do that with my 2 when the engine dies.