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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
I appreciate the information, It just wasn't in the article at all. The part you quoted didn't explain anything. Only stated the make and model. It's not clear why from the article.
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.
Old news... what's the update?
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.
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.
UPDATE: the battery fire obviously didn't help, but according to new reporting it turns out that the Cybertruck really did trap the victims inside.
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