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Tesla driver and two kids burned alive because rescuers can’t open electronic doors: reports (nypost.com)
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[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 76 points 6 days ago (3 children)

In summary, never buy a Tesla.

The CEO is a bona fide nazi, and the board will stop at nothing to pay him a trillion dollars.

The vehicle will incinerate you at a time of its choosing.

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 20 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Holy fuck this is all arguably not hyperbolic, satirical, nor seen as extreme.

Too ridiculous for fiction. Except P.K. Dick I guess.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

PKD would've been like

Oh, killer cars? that's cute. How about a drug that makes you become a car for 12 hours at a time, and each time you use it, it physically destroys your brain a little bit

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

kinda sounds like that movie, "The Substance", in a manner of speaking

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 days ago

I was thinking a little bit of Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

It was only mild to moderately unnerving to compose it.

[–] PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 11 points 6 days ago

Makes you wonder if this is just another case of deregulation driving up its body count, or if a certain Nazi is acting out his oven fetish.

[–] moody@lemmings.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

the board will stop at nothing to pay him a trillion dollars.

If he can somehow manage to skyrocket the value of the company from 1 trillion to 8 trillion.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Trump: I'll get the money printers going, we'll make that $1 Trillion into $8 trillion in 6 years, 4 years ahead of schedule!