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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."

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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 105 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

they haven't bothered to fix them because elon doesn't give a fuck about dead people.

[–] QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago

In Kanye voice “Elon Musk doesn’t care about dead people”

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

Sure is good that DOGE got rid of everyone who was investigating Tesla.

[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 103 points 1 week ago (9 children)
[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 4 points 6 days ago

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?

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[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 98 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Elon: If the bones disintegrated, how do you know anyone was even in there? 😏

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I ket what ya mine

Translation?

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago

It's a ketamine pun

[–] Twitches@lemm.ee 81 points 1 week ago (2 children)

How appropriate that a Swastitruck cremates its drivers.

[–] Rebecca_Corndogs@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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".

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It is beautiful.

[–] lupusblackfur@lemmy.world 47 points 1 week ago

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? 🤡 🫏 🖕 💩

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You signed your death warrant when you bought an Incel Camino

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Laser@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago

Funny because the German word "Kamin" means fireplace and chimney

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So, a mobile crematorium. How apt.

[–] ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

Fitting for a Nazi car really

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Just pretend you're German and go to Venezuela.

[–] sniggleboots@europe.pub 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

okay but that's pretty fucking metal

[–] lmuel@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'd say the cybertruck is quite the opposite: ugly fucking metal

[–] axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 3 points 6 days ago

pretty ugly metal?

[–] nthavoc@lemmy.today 19 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Oh cool. The deathtrap also has "cremation mode" enabled. Saves everyone the trouble I suppose.

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[–] frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 14 points 6 days ago

That's 2,760 C. holy shit. poor guy. I'm so glad these hunks of rubbish are banned here in the UK

[–] RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'd rather not fuck him, thanks. There are enough wives/baby mamas who have done that at this point.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Rumor has it you couldn't even if you wanted to because he had a botched surgery, and all those kids were conceived via IVF.

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[–] Ilixtze@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago

5 out of 10: Shit car; great Viking funeral.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

a 100k charcuterie machine, a mobile crematorium, or a venison slicer. a swiss army knife of cars.

[–] glorkon@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

It's all computers!

[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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."

[–] ramenbelly@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 days ago

Mmm cha mmm mm cha Mmm cha mmm mm cha

Single serving sugar

Single serving

[–] motor_spirit@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Tesla ad: SAVE BIG ON BURIAL/CREMATION SERVICES

[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So they're providing free cremation services now eh?

They'll find a way to charge for it soon

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[–] dinren@discuss.online 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

We really need to put more energy into battery development.

[–] evenglow@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

China did. It's called LFP. It's in like 80% of the EVs over there. It was invented in the '90s in USA.

[–] dinren@discuss.online 7 points 1 week ago

Oh, and it doesn’t use cobalt. That’s nice

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

So they can burn even hotter? Hell yeah!!!

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I don’t know how so maybe this isn’t entirely true, but I’ve seen past news reports of Cybertrucks having to be buried due to the temperature of these fires. Supposedly they burn so hot that they are difficult to extinguish.

[–] evenglow@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

That applies to anything with Li-ion NMC in it. Like your phone. EVs just have more of them.

[–] bulwark@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

F/A 18s have zinc in their brake disks that if they ever catch on fire the best option is to push the jet of the carrier.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Sometimes they push em off before the fire, just to be extra safe

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