Posted on 04/18/2021 10:32:23 AM PDT by DFG
Two men died after a Tesla 'on autopilot with no one driving' crashed into a tree in Houston before starting a huge fire that took 32,000 gallons of water to extinguish.
The fully-electric 2019 Tesla Model S slammed into the tree in Carlton Woods at around 11.25pm on Saturday night before bursting into flames with the passengers still inside.
Harris County Precinct 4 Constable Mark Herman said an investigation had found that 'no one was driving' when the accident happened, with one man sitting in the passenger seat at the front and the second sitting in the back.
Officials told KPRC 2 that the $80,000 vehicle was moving at high speed when it failed to negotiate a cul-de-sac turn, ran off the road and crashed.
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Tom is dead? I am so sorry to hear that. I loved their show.
Water does wonders for lithium.
I would have assumed as much. Thanks .
I use it all the time on regular streets. I figure that the computer is more efficient at maintaining just the right amount of acceleration to keep the speed, and is better at MPG than my foot is.
-PJ
First thing I thought also. Technically is it drunk driving? It’s still dead dead.
Not if the small dept didn’t call anyone for help.
I am okay with stupid, malicious people killing only themselves.
Water is bad for lithium fires.
Actually, when encountering idiots willing to let their dangerous side kill others, consider things that enhance their burn as much as possible.
Local news station article said local FD had to call Tesla for advice on how to put out fire.
Yep, I never wanted to be around when the Halon was activated.
I belong to a steam tractor club. The club was started a hundred years ago to lobby for the right to drive the tractors on the roads to get to plowing/threshing gigs. Now the tractors get trailered over the roads.
I expect manual drive cars to be about as welcome on public roads as farm equipment and horse buggies.
Manual drive cars will be seen as terribly dangerous and they will require expensive insurance policies. It’s gonna happen fast. I keep cars for 10-20 years, and I’m at 15 now. I doubt I buy another manual drive/gas powered car — it will not be welcome on the roads in less than 15 years.
I love cruise control on my motorcycle. Nothing sucks more than holding the throttle with your hand, mile after mile after mile.
Ha ha! I had a guy I used to work with who Married a woman who had six sisters!
He used to call them “The Coven”!
“Halon itself is nasty to breathe and under fire conditions makes a really nasty atmosphere.”
Leaking refrigeration equipment and open flames are a bad combo. Phosgene is created when freon is burned. If you smell a chlorine/hydrochloric acid sort smell, run — there will also be phosgene.
re: “When one designs, builds and markets a vehicle specifically for the demographic that has more money than common sense ..”
I’m thinking “Doctors and high performance twins and small jets”
IOW, aircraft.
This was in The Woodlands, Texas, in a gated neighborhood, nicknamed locally as “Cartel Woods” that has multi million dollar homes.
Sure? The local news channel from the article gave an address that was in Spring. Address minutes from The Woodlands border but technically still Spring.
“Now the tractors get trailered over the roads.”
Massive agricultural machine are a common sight the road just outside of Raleigh.
I have not heard of any pushback against manuals, at least not any more than there is for ICE cars in general. I think the people who cannot drive them are what should be banned.
That's pretty sad.
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