The sheriff said Tesla CEO Elon Musk helped the investigation by having the truck unlocked after it auto-locked in the blast and giving investigators video of the suspect at charging stations along its route from Colorado to Las Vegas.
What if this hadn’t been purposeful but an accidental blast… and the doors auto-locked someone inside? Do you need Musk’s personal cell number to be able to get out alive? What even is this?
Seriously, how are Tesla’s not widely considered dangerous deathtraps at this point.
If I wasn’t just so very, very tired, I would find amusement in how this story is going back and forth. “Haha, cybertruck exploded! Stupid Elon!” “Oh, it had a bomb, it was a deliberate explosion. And the cybertruck’s structure stopped anyone outside it from getting hurt…” silence “Ah! It auto-locked, something about cybertruck we can criticize! Stupid Elon!”
And people complain about the “tribalism” in politics these days.
I think that it is a complex situation that people are trying to distill down into internet takes. It is frustrating, but understandable.
The reason nobody outside was hurt was because there wasn’t really anyone around to get hurt. The video shows a pretty sizeable explosion that would’ve likely killed someone standing close by.
I don’t think the Cybertruck did any better than other cars in that respect. Not worse either btw.
There was someone just inside the glass doors the truck was parked in front of, you can see them just moments from coming outside through them in the security cam footage.