We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars

24 Replies to “We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars”

1. I used to clean an ambulance chaser law firm at night a couple decades back. One of the cases they were working on was on behalf of the relatives of a couple who was rear-ended and trapped in their car. The car burst into flames and the couple was incinerated. They had a giant 48″x60″ exhibit photograph mounted on foamboard of the aftermath of the interior in one of the conference rooms. All their skin was gone and both of their mouths were wide open probably from screaming in agony. That image will stay with me forever.

2. do they ever burn! and here I always thought gas could be dangerous.

3. Everyone knows it was never about building a great car.
   The ‘ Gang Greens ‘ have no shame. When are these malevolent thieves going to get locked up with the keys thrown away for their unscrupulous movement.

   1. It costs money to lock them up. I propose solution Colt .45 instead. Much more economical.

4. A bit of hell on earth.

5. Remember, it’s not about the people; but that can’t be good for the environment, so……..

6. That car does not look too “zero emissions” to me!

   1. Wait awhile. Say 4-5 more days.

7. The new 2019 Telsa will have a much larger ash tray to hold your remains.

   The family can just slide it out for your memorial service.

8. Tesla, the modern-day Pinto.

   Or…. maybe it’s a feature not a bug. We know how strapped Tesla is becoming for cash. Just maybe, Elon has programmed these auto-pilots to self-destruct on your first missed payment.

9. Ha I was going to make a Pinto comment myself…
   At least the Pinto didn’t trap you in the car when the battery died…

   1. And the Pinto didn’t crash itself for no good reason. (Like a scene from “Top Secret” with Val Kilmer)

10. It’s time EV owners started paying a carbon tax.

    New report suggests broad adoption of electric vehicles may actually increase air pollution

    Using a recent forecast prepared by the U.S. Energy Information Administration, Lesser’s analysis shows that, over the period 2018 – 2050, the electric generating plants that will charge new EVs will emit more air pollution than the same number of new internal combustion engines, even accounting for air pollution from oil refineries that manufacture gasoline.

    What’s more, EV subsidies benefit the wealthy at the expense of the poor. A nationwide survey of EV owners in 2017 found that 56% had household incomes of at least $100,000 and 17% had household incomes of at least $200,000. In 2016. median household income for the US as a whole was less than $58,000.

11. A fraud built on a science fraud.

12. Who cares? I have no sympathy for cultists who drink the koolaid. Whether it’s Jonestown, or Solarcity, it is the same crap. The governments who hand out money to electric car buyers are not going to be held to any standard. The subsidy farmers are guaranteed to be free and clear. You get incinerated in a car you thought was a good idea? Well, sucks to be you. And now for the sound of the world’s smallest violin.

13. Don’t forget….not too long ago (and maybe still) Tesla was making owners sign nda’s after getting repairs.

    Duckduckgo “Tesla nda”

14. On the plus side, seems that there is not much to clean up.
    The thing burned up quite well,

    Sad that it took a life, even of a progressive earth saver.

15. Chapter 1 – “The Sporty Tesla-The One-Car Accident”.

    Time for a Ralph Nader rewrite …

    1. “Time for a Ralph Nader rewrite …”

       In fact the Corvair was no more dangerous than its competitors. Ditto for the Pinto.

       1. My VW Bug (and about 10 million others) … had a swing axle. The thing Nader identified as “unsafe”. Along with being “too lightweight”.

          However … it did NOT have a highly flammable and unstable lithium ion battery. Just a Ni-cad 6V … then 12V battery.

          And since Tesla fanboys like to cite the large numbers of ICE fires … I wonder how many of those fires caused a death? Death by the FIRE … not the impact of an accident. Are we receiving Autopsies of the Tesla-dead? To determine whether the impact, or the FIRE was the cause of DEATH. A horrible way to DIE … chemical battery fire!!

16. I was 18 or so when me brudder the body shop owner hired me for the summer.
    his shop was in the sticks, so he got the highway wrecks.
    Q: brudder, howcum that wreck got a pair of bumps in the windshield?
    A: HB, dat’d be where dere heahds dun smacked into it . . .

    EEEPPPP !!!!!
    always wore a seat belt and drove safely and conscientiously ever since and NEVER EVER EVER EVER drove drunk.
    now we’re getting this ‘phenomenon’ all over again except NO great call to ‘fix’ the sit’n, in fact, *the total opposite*

    1. Ugh … I had a friend who, as a college student, drove a tow truck in Pacific Grove, CA. He showed me his shop and yard one day … and all the wrecks he towed AFTER the jaws of life had extricated the lifeless bodies of the occupants. The most gruesome thing I’ve ever seen … where every cracked and shattered windscreen had hair embedded in it. When I saw the first one, I innocently asked if that driver had hit a deer (and left its fur in the windshield)? No, he told me … that’s … human hair. And skin. And in some cases … gray matter. It was a gruesome graveyard of deadly wrecks.

17. Hmmmmmm… now that I think about it….

    What do you think the chances are, that Tesla’s engineer’s graduated from “Yale’s special undergraduate laboratory course”?

    I am thinking EVERYTHING is going to become increasingly dangerous for the next few decades. When anger studies is your captain for this flight type of thing…

18. I forsee the Tesla being a high points item on the Ram -A -Van check list.
    Rental vans will be so yesterday.
    Rent a tesla and you can incinerate the evidence ,yourself and the target of choice..
    A three-fer for the Desert Pedophile.