Summary

A Tesla Cybertruck crashed in Piedmont last November, killing three college students after hitting a cement wall and bursting into flames.

The California Highway Patrol (CHP) attributed the crash to intoxication and high speed but found that the victims likely died from the fire.

Testimony revealed the vehicle’s doors would not open after the crash, preventing rescue attempts. A survivor was pulled out after a bystander broke a window with a tree branch.

The CHP’s investigation into the crash remains ongoing.

  • MagicShel@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    There are cameras inside the car, it self drives… imagine if it used AI to decide if the driver was Jewish. Or queer. Or just a particular individual who might be thrown out a window were they in Russia. And it steered itself into a wall and burst into flames, destroying any internal telemetry that might tell the story.

    The technology is there. The regulatory agencies that might investigate are gutted. There is nothing but the integrity of a few programmers standing in the way. Programmers whose livelihoods and perhaps admission to the US are at stake.

    That feels awfully thin.

    There’s a fucking conspiracy theory for the nutters.

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      1 day ago

      There are cameras inside the car, it self drives… imagine if it used AI to decide if the driver was Jewish. Or queer.

      How would a camera determine if you are queer?

      Also, I am just imagining the piles of blackmail material Tesla has on it’s customers.

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        1 day ago

        AI. I didn’t say it would do a good job, lol. It’s a conspiracy theory. It doesn’t have to make sense, it just needs to be barely plausible.

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      2 days ago

      I don’t think that a lot of the people who would be likely targets for such an attack are the same people who would be buying Teslas in the first place.

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        2 days ago

        They might well already have Teslas. They are far more likely to drive them (I think) than the good old boys out in the country.