We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars

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Zerohedge;

Tesla slams into tree in Florida, bursting into flames and killing driver before reigniting in tow yard.

But wait! There’s more!

“Police say officers tried to save the driver but couldn’t open the door because there was not a handle.”

h/t EMS

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

  1. And in this year Darwin award nominations we have a driver who burned to death due to a lack of a door handle on the door of the car he was driving.

    1. Those things are the most laughable bit of far fetched imagination ever…. Reminds me of some of the “Popular Mechanics” mags of the late 50’s & Early 60’s. Buck Rogers Bullshit.

      Virtue Signalling JUNK….and deadly at that.
      So to all of the Anti Fossil Fuel SJW Eco-Nazi’s …. I say to you:

      “PLEASE BUY a TESLA”
      And we’ll call your eventual demise, be it via fire or freezing to death,
      “Natural Selection”.

      1. emphasis on BUCKS. lots of them. pouring into the bank accts of the ‘new green entreprensewer’ class.
        including BILLIONS ‘with a B’ in gubbamint subsidies.

        I remember those far fetched musings as well. aka ‘things that make you go hmmmm’.
        my fave was the single seater personal helicopter. my earliest thoughts were, lovely. all we need,
        *drunk driving in 3 dimensions*.
        what I didnt realize at that time was how fcukin skeptical I was about ‘stuff’ as compared to
        teachers, pundits, media, hollyweird types, etc.
        I guess thats why I never fell for a ‘quick riches’ or ‘latest conspiracy’ and ah shucks, nebber got my invite to the cult.

        so whats tesla’s stock price today? and is Nicola turning and turning in his grave?

  5. Tesla is an example of a great car which is fun to drive when everything is working just right.

    I want a car that will still keep me alive when NOTHING is working right. Battery dead, broken brake line, universal joint on the drive shaft lets go, axle breaks, tire blows, the engineer better have planned for all that to happen, maybe all at the same time.

    Fuel tanks are very well understood. Cars do not explode these days, even when they go on fire.

    Batteries are -not- well understood. I do not want half a megajoule of electricity in my car, thanks all the same.

    1. “Tesla is an example of a great car which is fun to drive when everything is working just right.”
      No it is not fun to drive. It is a soulless transportation appliance, not a fun to drive car.

      1. ever drive a “battery” car, didn’t think so, so again yer bull orifice is in over drive. Yah they are a great drive when working properly

        now tell me all about yer experience that allows you to determined what frighter aircraft is best fer kanada. I godda admit, you sure as schitt are entertaining

        1. If it were up to me, we’d be flying the F-35. Hands down.
          With the child in the PMO, I’m actually surprised he didn’t buy piston engined aricraft…that would be his speed.

        2. Yes, I drove both Tesla and Volt, soulless.

          As for the fighter aircraft you really need to get some preparation H for your butthurt. First law of holes and all that.

    2. Incorrect. Batteries predate the internal combustion engine, and are a well understood technology. Electric cars been available in many countries of the world since 1832.

      They have never caught on. They did not replace horses. They did not become taxis. They did not become buses. They are a mature technology, they have always been available, and not many people have ever wanted them.

    3. It’s actually quite difficult to get gasoline to even ignite, much less explode; the fumes need to be well-mixed with oxygen. It’s why engines have pistons. Cars have never exploded as a result of a crash, that’s a Hollywoodism.

      Batteries contain both their own fuel source and their own ignition, and the chemicals used are generally a lot more flammable. They’re very well understood; when reporting to a fire in (say) a data center firefighters know to be careful of the UPSes in the bottom of the server racks because they can explode and shock you to death.

      All of which means that running a car off of them was probably not a good idea in the first place.

      1. Exactly. Cars going over cliffs in the movies and then exploding in a ball of flames is just silly. It looks kewl … but very far from reality.

  6. I can say with abaolute confidence that I feel no sympathy for anyone who gave their money to subsidy farmer Musk.

    Do the taxpayers who paid this millionaire to buy a tesla get any cut of the insurance money? Yeah, didn’t think so.

    Do the legislators who passed the electric car subsidy laws lose any of their salaries or pensions or sinecures or get to pay any part of the law suits? Yeah, didn’t think so.

  7. Business history will record that Tesla, as an automobile company was short lived; but later met with great success in the marketplace, by producing the world’s first mobile crematorium.

    1. While Tesla has been recorded as having spontaneous fires in their cars since 2013, the Russians had been using mobile crematoriums in eastern Ukraine since February 2014 to incinerate their war dead in an attempt to hide the fact of their military invasion of Ukraine from the Russian people.

    3. well there ya have it, the ol’ ‘cradle to grave’ ‘car in every driveway’ thing resurfacing.
      little did we know the car in the driveway was so closely related to the grave thing.
      just had to wait for elon to show up with his spiel. where the FCUK did that guy get his startup money??????

  8. Even if there was a door handle, they would not have been able to open the door because in the event of battery failure, the doors remain locked and cannot be opened. I would refer you to the case of the two boys in Utah that burned to death in a Tesla as I recall last year. It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.

    1. But have you SEEN those disappearing door handles … so damn James Bond (Q) kewl!
      At least you’ll die in THE most technologically advanced automobile ever conceived by mankind!!! You can probably watch your own death on the massive dashboard video display. While you start to burn, your Tesla will be Tweeting and Instagramming your incineration. Think of all the hits you’ll get!!! Epic!!!

  11. It’s Junk! How can they get away with producing such dangerous cars? Where’s the Consumers’ Rights people when you need them?

  12. Haha. Let’s have us some Long Pig for dinner tonight cooked on the planet saver’s version of the Big Green Egg.

  13. What’s not to like? One less Tesla on the road. And one less Tesla owner. I feel sorry for the poor tree. And hope that nothing else was damaged in the tow yard. And that none of the others were injured in this process. But at least the fire fighters got some good training out of it!

    1. sir. you are heartless. (just kidding)
      trying to outdo elon? HE is the REAL heartless one.

      in my past research and reading I found out Howard Hughes’ people were developing a steam powered car back when.
      and when HE found out how it was designed, kiboshed the whole plan out of concern for the SAFETY of the occupants.
      I still have a great deal of admiration and respect and sympathy for Howard. I had OCD too, really bad. none now.
      for the sake of a friggin $2 pill we could have been on the moon 5 years earlier or such.

      this is his legacy:
      https://www.hhmi.org/
      medical research in the interests of people, way way way into the future. God Bless you Howard, wherever you are.

  16. There was a very good point made by an airline pilot with respect to the autopilot in an airplane versus one in a car. His point was that there was a slew of air controllers, onboard radar, onboard computers ensuring that no two planes were at the same altitude and each plane had open skies in front of them–but even with all that, accidents and close calls still occurred. Then the pilot opined how much harder that would be in a car which had so many different “bad” scenarios that could occur just going down a residential street (kids and/or pets running into traffic, car door opening at the wrong time, car pulling out, unmanned vehicle sliding down the driveway because of ice, etc). I think this is an effort by the elite to control those who would drive. Imagine a populace unable to actually drive a vehicle–it would be trapped into going only to places that are programmed into the vehicle. And who would program these vehicles?

    1. You’re catching on, a similar situation is developing with digital money replacing cash. The government will soon argue that citizens having cash (negotiable tender) facilitates crimes: illegal drug trafficking, murders, armed robberies, burglaries and home invasions. (Similar to the Cult. Marxist arguments used to make the peaceable possession of firearms illegal and also, the use of them in emergencies to prevent/stop crime/subversion of Parliamentary democracy tyrannical government.)

      Once cash is outlawed and only digital currency is lawful, the government will be able to decide if, what and even when, you are allowed to purchase. This *temptation for today’s bureaucrats, Social Justice Warrior school graduates that they are, is just too great for them to resist.

      *(“Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”)

  17. https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/national-electric-vehicles-advances-1.5019046
    In their relentless push to foist EVs on Canadian public, CBC published this story. And story it is, focusing on % sales increases, rather than actual numbers of EV sold compared to ICE cars is one tactic. Also unmentioned is any direct buyer subsidy so essential to EV sales. Ont’s subsidy under Wynne was a whopping $!4,000, since ended by Prem. Ford. And the sales of Nissan Leaf went from 695 cars in Aug to 10 in Nov once the subsidy disappeared.
    Electric cars’s just around the corner success has been with us since the model T at least in some circles. CBC holds the record for number of showings of Who Killed the Electric Car.
    Glancing at the comments, the supporters are all city dwellers, EVs are not too popular in rural hinterlands for obvious reasons, obvious to most readers here, anyway. One more example of rural taxpayers subsidizing choices for urbanites. If anyone wishes to buy a EV for whatever reason, let them pay the full freight, same as anyone buying a F150.

  18. My girlfriend just bought a new car, it is not electric but it has NO key and not one door has a key hole

    if the remote battery dies or worse the car battery dies for some reason, to open the hood, you need to jack the car, then somehow manage to reach either the battery ( unlikely as it is very high and your arms won t fit between the hundreds of things there ) or if you know enough about cars find the positive and negatives on the starter, but even that may not work

    I will not provide all the other insanely ridiculous problems having no keys cause but I will say this

    she still has to carry the remote with her, in her purse or in her pockets, so how is this an improvment over keys???

    a 3 year old could grab the remote from her purse, walk to the car, the door would open, he could start the car ( pressing the push button is even easier than turning a key ),

    How is a remote thingy better than a key?

    I only see more problems, more dangerous situations

    why are we designing things that are stupider instead of better???

    Am I the only one who can see that a keyless car is absolutely NOT an improvement in ANY way ?

    Anyone can steal the remote and leave with the car

    Anyone can start the car

    you can lose the remote just as you can lose a key

    you need to carry the remote at all times just as you would a key

    where is the improvement???

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