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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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[–] 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.