Thanksgiving - 3 dead teens Cyber truck crash and resulting fire

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Trav said:
Maybe it is time to restrict the amount of HP that can be licensed for public road use.
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Weirdly enough Australia restricts turbo and supercharged vehicles till 25 I think. The only downside is that many turbo vehicles aren't super powerful.
 
alarmguy said:
I suspect a time will come for this and/or the ability to electronically restrict power by the owner. However that might imply the manufacturer is admitting guilt about marketing a dangerous vehicle.

One thing to remember all cars go over 95 mph so it won’t matter much and nothing will change human behavior except the death rate in cars are at all time lows percentage of drivers percentage wise.

But this could be a nanny regulators dream to further regulate
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Some high performance vehicles have a low and high performance key. In theory you could do this with a Tesla "key".
 
demarpaint said:
True, but lets not forget the horrific fires these EVs are getting a bad rep for, how intense the fire can be, the resources needed to put them out, and how difficult they are to put out.
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Yeah I've seen 30-50,000 gallons of water to extinguish a Tesla fire. I'm sure other ev's are Similar. The Tesla semi truck that caught fire needed 50,000 gallons of water and took five plus hours to extinguish.
 
andrew_j said:
Never realized that Wednesday was called Blackout Wednesday until my 19 year old informed me. She did not want her 16 year old sister driving home at 11PM.

Our local yearly death was this time a policemen at local college hit by wrong way driver RT95 in MA driving a TESLA. Guessing drunk as did not stop for state troopers from NH following on opposite side.
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A.J, I read that article with sadness. I don't know why the Staties didn't cut over and pit the wrong-way driver immediately, along with them preparing for a spike strip deployment in the next town. You can not let a dope proceed the wrong way on an interstate for any amount of time. Wig-wags in the opposite oncoming lane might also distract any driver from what is not supposed to be coming right at you at a closing speed of over 150 mph.
A sad and terrible tragedy.

Sgt. Jeremy Cole of the Endicott College Police Department

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"On this Thanksgiving Day, our hearts are with the family, friends and loved ones of a police officer who reported for duty keeping the rest of us safe and secure but did not return home."
 
alarmguy said:
I get it, it’s an EV and garners attention.
But EVs have a market saturation of only less than 3% on US roads but these tragedies are significant already.
What will this look like when thst number is 40% on the road.

Here is a key statement though. There is a comment that the battery may not have caught fire so clearly there can be other electrical causes in a vehicle with no fossel fuel if correct. There is conflicting information in the story other than the flames were intense

Ps. Notice that an iPhone actually automatically notified police.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...h-dead-injured-california-bay-area-rcna182121



https://nypost.com/2024/11/29/us-ne...-crash-idd-speeding-probed-as-possible-cause/
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Something is wrong, have to have clear eyes about it. It isn’t about the miles driven. This is a new truck.
Vercingetorix said:
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That’s the trouble with making a story from a snapshot, not the whole story. They said fire and burns, it doesn’t go away with a snapshot of the car not on fire.
 
Fair enough said:
Something is wrong, have to have clear eyes about it. It isn’t about the miles driven. This is a new truck.
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IN my opinion there are not enough vehicles on the road to know the impact of EV accidents vs gasoline. Is it the media creating a sense of overwhelming burning fires and death. I say they are partly responsible, just look at the activity in this forum.
However as statistics come out, there seem to be some early indications of more deaths which recently gave Tesla top spot of vehicle deaths. To me, that is mind blowing. (we might be talking the same thing, not sure if I am reading your post as intended)
 
Trav said:
Maybe it is time to restrict the amount of HP that can be licensed for public road use.
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I respect you but the logic needs some massaging. A 6000lb vehicle with 400HP can't compete with a 80HP (600cc) motorcycle with acceleration or most categories one would choose. Limiting horsepower isn't the solution IMO. You get the gist. Regulation is not the answer. Non-political statement so don't construe it in that manner BUT blue states are often overloaded with volumes of laws exceeding many less restrictive states yet both often have similar end results.

I'm no Tesla fan and EV's aren't for me. That stated, let's not pretend any of the auto manufacturers are different than the other. Even if a known issue presents, unlikely to stop a production line in progress for a remedy. Big pharma is a shining example. A drug comes to market and ultimately found unsafe. Newspaper screams justice for the people with the offending pharma group paying 200 million in fines yet they profited 1 billion.
 
alarmguy said:
I suspect a time will come for this and/or the ability to electronically restrict power by the owner. However that might imply the manufacturer is admitting guilt about marketing a dangerous vehicle.

One thing to remember all cars go over 95 mph so it won’t matter much and nothing will change human behavior except the death rate in cars are at all time lows percentage of drivers percentage wise.

But this could be a nanny regulators dream to further regulate
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We can already do that, but most people probably won’t voluntarily limit themselves. I can set parental limits and assign it to a specific user if I wanted my daughter to have these limitations if I wanted to have her drive one of our cars.

GM offers this with a number of models too.
 
Torrid said:
We can already do that, but most people probably won’t voluntarily limit themselves. I can set parental limits and assign it to a specific user if I wanted my daughter to have these limitations if I wanted to have her drive one of our cars.

GM offers this with a number of models too.
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Far more basic, but anything Hellcat-powered comes with two keys for a similar reason.
 
Fair enough said:
Something is wrong, have to have clear eyes about it. It isn’t about the miles driven. This is a new truck.

That’s the trouble with making a story from a snapshot, not the whole story. They said fire and burns, it doesn’t go away with a snapshot of the car not on fire.
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The car did not get engulfed in flames. The battery did not catch fire and burn to the ground.
 
GON said:
As all accidents of this nature are, this is very tragic.

Disclosure- I do not own a Tesla or any EV, and I do not have stock in Tesla, any of its suppliers, not any of its competitors.
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That is some excellent CYA!
 
Vercingetorix said:
The car did not get engulfed in flames. The battery did not catch fire and burn to the ground.
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Considering all the stories we hear like this it’s pretty crazy that a car can catch fire and the main battery is untouched. So many are convinced that they’re just so fire prone.
 
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