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Mitch McConnell’s billionaire sister-in-law Angela Chao made panicked last call before dying in ‘completely submerged’ Tesla on Texas ranch: report
nypost ^ | 3/9/2024 | Patrick Reilly

Posted on 03/09/2024 7:09:04 AM PST by bitt

Angela Chao, Sen. Mitch McConnell’s billionaire sister-in-law, spent her last minutes alive frantically calling her friends for help as her Tesla slowly sank in a pond on a remote Texas ranch, according to a report.

Chao, the billionaire former CEO of dry bulk shipping giant Foremost Group, tragically died at the age of 50 on Feb. 10 after accidentally backing her car into the pond while making a three-point turn.

The driving mishap was detailed in a report by The Wall Street Journal that shed light on the chaotic rescue efforts that ultimately came up short, turning what was supposed to be a celebratory weekend with friends into a nightmare.

Chao invited several of her girlfriends from Harvard Business School to spend the weekend on a gorgeous, sprawling 900-acre private property in Texas’ Hill Country, that included horse stables, a swimming pool and a 10-bedroom guesthouse, the Journal reported.

After eating dinner together and celebrating the Chinese New Year on Friday night, Chao left the guesthouse around 11:30 p.m. to head back to the main house, where her son was sleeping. It was cold out, so she decided to take her Tesla Model X SUV for the four-minute drive rather than walk.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Kentucky; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: angela; angelachao; chao; kentucky; mademitchretire; mcconnell; mcconnellsil; mitch; mitchmcconnell; texas; warning; warning2mitch
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To: Blueway
The Taiwanese were very friendly and seemed to like Americans.

Mirrors my experience in Kaohsiung, but the drivers and cabbies were more or less sane.

61 posted on 03/09/2024 8:11:45 AM PST by null and void (There’s only one thing that’s for sure. Everyone on all sides a conflict will be happy to lie to you)
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To: ConservativeMind

” an Asian friend of my wife, who was born in Taiwan, says Asian women are the worst drivers “

I lived there a few years in the 60s. We were told Right-of-Way was determined by gross vehicle weight! Good advice to always assume that...

Driving in the Philippines, it was a good idea to wear mirror sunglasses. If another driver could make eye contact, they assumed they had the right to pull out in front of you. With mirror glasses, they never made eye contact and would hesitate.


62 posted on 03/09/2024 8:12:37 AM PST by Mr Rogers (We're a nation of feelings, not thoughts.)
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To: bitt

Comedy of errors rescue attempt but at least there was one. Not like poor Mary Joe Kopechne waiting for that b@stard Ted Kennedy.


63 posted on 03/09/2024 8:13:30 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: HollyB

How I wish I could afford to hire a Chinese cook.


64 posted on 03/09/2024 8:16:02 AM PST by 353FMG
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To: wildcard_redneck
You don't realize how hackable a Tesla is, everything is run on software from the brakes, accelerator, and steering. You hack a Tesla and you essentially have a drone. Chao was murdered and the Demonrats got their $ billions from Mitch McConnell the brother-in-law.


Yup.

Throttle has not been connected directly to the engine or motor for a long time. Brakes are transitioning to full electronic control for power regen. Steering on many cars is electric powered with the steering column being more of a fail safe and we are an automotive technology generation or so away from fully electronic steering where the steering wheel is not connected to the wheels.

It all works great right up until it doesn't

65 posted on 03/09/2024 8:18:15 AM PST by rdcbn1
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

“Comedy of errors rescue attempt but at least there was one.”

It was a gathering of Harvard grads. They are generally unfit for the real world.

Our “betters”.


66 posted on 03/09/2024 8:18:52 AM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI)
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To: brownsfan

Asian women drivers...

The most dangerous creatures in Hawaii. Lived there a couple of years.


67 posted on 03/09/2024 8:19:34 AM PST by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda.)
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To: rdcbn1

Couple days ago I had the throttle stick on my truck.
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And on that theme, here’s a piece that came out the other day that certainly gives one pause for thought....
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/03/07/ev-malfunctions-at-100mph-and-wont-stop-forcing-police-to-ram-it-off-the-road/
“An electric car driver whose £80,000 Jaguar I-Pace “went rogue” on the M62 has told of his terror as he pressed the brakes and his car sped up, forcing him to swerve through traffic at speeds of up to 100mph.”

And this is what happens when the humans don’t have enough control because it has all been handed over to the machines…


68 posted on 03/09/2024 8:21:04 AM PST by hecticskeptic
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To: bitt

I knew a guy who was killed when he forgot to set his parking brake. As he got out of his car it started to roll and came to a rest with his neck wedged against the door and a dumpster. DOA.


69 posted on 03/09/2024 8:23:04 AM PST by rexthecat
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To: wildcard_redneck

I have friends and colleagues who cheerfully established “Smart Homes” with everything (including entry locks and faucets) on-line and managed by AI.

Meanwhile, my friends who are in the tech industry insist on keeping everything archaic...


70 posted on 03/09/2024 8:23:11 AM PST by Cold_Red_Steel
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To: Chgogal

When your car can do 0 to 60 mph in under 3 seconds, she could have been going pretty darn fast, and with the torque and weight on a Tesla it does not take much speed to pull it up an embankment.


71 posted on 03/09/2024 8:23:25 AM PST by rdcbn1
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To: rdcbn1

You don’t realize how hackable a Tesla is, everything is run on software from the brakes, accelerator, and steering.
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This and the fact that one no longer is driving a ‘car’ but a ‘computer with 4 wheels with extensive surveillance capabilities’ is the primary reason why the vehicles I own are all about 15 years old. Until that changes (which will be never), I keep a good relationship with my buddy who runs Doug’s Garage....


72 posted on 03/09/2024 8:25:35 AM PST by hecticskeptic
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To: bitt

Was Ted Kennedy seen leaving the scene?


73 posted on 03/09/2024 8:26:58 AM PST by sunny bonobo
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To: bitt

Doesn’t Tesla advertise how un-breakable their windows are? Or are those only special versions of their cars?

In this case, its not good.


74 posted on 03/09/2024 8:31:15 AM PST by PGR88
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To: wardaddy
It’s a shame she didn’t deserve it.

Disagree. Chao was one of the globo-whores Mitch utized to make a fortune off selling his office to the Chinese.

Hope her end was horrific and the McConnels got to listen her very last gurlges. Maybe the POS Mitch cans join her in the graveyard ASAP.

75 posted on 03/09/2024 8:31:49 AM PST by AAABEST (That time Washington DC became a corrupted, existential threat to us all...)
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To: Joe 6-pack

I worked at a plant on the Korea east coast in the late 90’s.

We had a lot of engineers that grew up and got their degrees in Seoul. Most had never been in a private car till they came to the jobsite.


76 posted on 03/09/2024 8:33:28 AM PST by TexasGator
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To: TexasGator

Were you there when the Nork submarine washed up in Kangneung?


77 posted on 03/09/2024 8:35:40 AM PST by Joe 6-pack
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To: PGR88

“Doesn’t Tesla advertise how un-breakable their windows are? Or are those only special versions of their cars?”

Not car. Cybertruck


78 posted on 03/09/2024 8:36:59 AM PST by TexasGator
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To: bitt

I thought Tesla’s floated…… ??


79 posted on 03/09/2024 8:37:01 AM PST by willgolfforfood
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To: lee martell
This could have been you or me, depending on luck and distracted driving skills.

In an all electric vehicle, once the system shorts-out, the windows don't roll down and the doors likely lock shut.

Doubtful that many 50 year old women have the capacity to break out a window in a Tesla.

80 posted on 03/09/2024 8:39:12 AM PST by Thommas (The snout of the camel is already under the tent.)
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