Curious. I backed my car up earlier and it was super easy. Didn't drown, didn't need to break a window to save myself. Maybe I'm just infinitely smarter.
The existence of the Cybertruck window demonstration video makes this whole thing extra hilarious. Not strong enough to serve a purpose, just strong enough to kill.
Though I will say, that had to be an awful experience for the firefighters or whoever was trying to rescue her, I hope they get some compensation from
But details of how Chao's Tesla ended up in the pond have not yet been divulged by authorities, leading some people, including J. Kyle Bass, a prominent hedge fund manager and founder of Texas-based Hayman Capital Management, to question if the Tesla was hacked.
"Does the Blanco County Sheriff have the technical capacity to investigate the Tesla logs to determine if the car was tampered with or even hacked?" Bass wrote on X. "This case continues to become more and more suspicious."
It really is crazy how American view their cars as personal tanks protecting them against other drivers which leads to them trying to make cars indestructible, forgetting that insufficient cushioning for the squishy human inside is much, much more likely to kill them.
Also they need bulletproof glass to protect them from the "criminals", which is why a less car-centric society is a completely terrifying prospect. But at the same time they also believe that we shouldn't reduce the number of guns in the country and everyone should be armed to the teeth at all times.
I'm not really sorry, it sounds horrific but she was who she was...
Honestly it sounds like a scene out of a 00's Ben Stiller comedy. It sounds like a deleted scene from Zoolander. All his friends died except for one, who then put his car in reverse and slowly drowned in a pond.
The fact that they call it a pond even! Not a lake, that would be too big. She drowned in a fucking pond! There's about three carps that will feast on her for years to come.
If I had a billion dollars I would simply never drive myself, and I would not ride in a Tesla. It's the same car that techbros drive and has a subpar safety record.
A lot of celebrities used to drive Priuses as the eco-friendly choice back when it was new, and I didn't read anything about them dying in crashes. But Priuses don't have the acceleration of a drag racer or quality control problems.
everything else aside imagine being a billionaire and CHOOSING to live in texas. would never ever be me. you could live in a Bhutanese mountainside cave mansion! you probably fucking buy a town in switzerland! you could have an entire fjord to yourself in new zealand! hell if you're that committed to dying underwater you could make the city from bioshock real! why would you live on a RANCH in TEXAS. if you gotta have a ranch at least have it in fucking new mexico or something
Yes I know her surname isn't cháo as in 潮 (tides/waves) but I'd like to imagine a shipping magnate who eventually drowned having a surname to do with the tides to be funnier.
I don't think the Model X comes with bulletproof glass standard, which means that either Tesla found a way to screw up regular safety glass or that Chao went out of her way to replace the standard glass with bulletproof glass. Either way
Well if you want the glass to be able to possibly survive someone breaking into it or being hit by something from outside (which seems they are doing better since that hilarious moment on stage). Then it seems that it would be obvious that it would mean also not being easy to break from inside. Even if it were regular car windows, the shit is hard to just break out from the inside without a pick or something else with a hard point. Also very curious how fast she had to have reversed to not have been able to stop and switch to drive or open the damn door. Not meaning to defend Tesla (and more specifically Musk), but kind of get the feeling she would have met the same fate in some other brand. Very stupid for someone that runs a shipping company to not know why it is important to not just floor it while being so close to a body of water.
If we are lucky, we will see more CEOs meet similar fates. Put there by their own incompetence and their last moments having nothing but fear. Their wealth and egos being unable to save them.
I imagine this like the scene from The office, with the GPS having Michael drive into a pond. The Tesla took control, because the driver was foolishly trying to go the wrong way, and just drove full on into the water.
Lol did they make the window indestructible because they smashed a window at the demonstration? Everything is reactive nonsense. What’s next? The seat belts are steel reinforced so firefighters can’t cut you loose?