AI6YR Ben2d ago

The Guardian: Inside the fiery, deadly crashes involving the Tesla Cybertruck

"...Cybertrucks have locked passengers inside and burned so hot they’ve disintegrated drivers’ bones. Victims’ families blame what they say is the faulty design...“The body inside was severely burnt and was completely unidentifiable,” one officer wrote in his report. “You could see a pelvic spine and ribcage laying across the front two seats, mostly in the passenger seat,” another wrote..."

(CW: gory descriptions of what happens when people are incinerated to death in a Cybertruck)

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/18/tesla-cybertruck-crashes-battery-fires

#tesla #cybertruck #gory

Inside the fiery, deadly crashes involving the Tesla Cybertruck

Cybertrucks have locked passengers inside and burned so hot they disintegrated drivers’ bones. Victims’ families blame what they say is faulty design

The Guardian
Show threadAI6YR Ben
Per article: “He burned to death at 5,000°F – a fire so hot his bones experienced thermal fracture,” reads the complaint from Sheehan’s family. The lawsuit contends Sheehan could have survived the crash, if he had been able to open the doors and escape the blaze, which flared to temperatures hotter than most cremation ovens. “The crash forces themselves were survivable,” the lawyers wrote.
Mar 24 at 7:33pmWeb
Show threadtom jennings2d ago

@ai6yr

It's hard to believe any vehicle emergency exit is allowed to have any electrical component in the emergency exit mechanism path, at all, of any kind, for any reason. It seems the most obvious thing in the world.

Show threadNine Oh Real2d ago

@ai6yr 5,000F equals 2.760°C
Just as a quick note.

I've been converting between °F and °C so much these past few weeks watching the heatwave in the US.

Regarding the topic: holy rolling hell 😱

Show threadMeanwhile, on Earth One2d ago
@ai6yr that's just horrible, horrible, horrible. 😥
Show threadLab-TediousBastard-Spokane2d ago
@ai6yr Nazis building and selling rolling crematoriums to other Nazis is - something.
Show threadU.S. Elaine2d ago
@ai6yr
So, just spitballing here, but with a Cybertruck, you have a remote-controllable vehicle, with a continuous, uninterruptible datastream of all activity, audio, location, etc. being fed to the DOGE-like AI minions of a gazillionaire bent on, literally, world domination, and it serves as an instant mobile crematorium?
Show threadAI6YR Ben2d ago
@USelaine Yep, apparently. I sure wouldn't trust one.
Show threadAccordionBruce2d ago

@USelaine @ai6yr
They have done so much in the last 50 years to make crashes survivable for the people inside cars

(Not so much for pedestrians, cyclists, and SUV owners’ toddlers they back over in their driveways)

Now Tesla goes and locks the doors on all that. Amazing they’re allowed on the road

The power of investor value and the stability of the stock market over consumer safety