Exclusive: “There’s my challenge to Elon,” attorney S. Scott West told The Independent. “Make these vehicles so safe that I don’t have to do this anymore.”

A Tesla Cybertruck owner in Texas was unable to escape after rolling it into a ditch last year, experiencing an unthinkable demise as the batteries powering the $100,000 stainless steel SUV burst into flames with such intensity the helpless driver's skeletal system literally disintegrated, his family says.

Michael Sheehan, 47, "burned to death at 5,000°F – a fire so hot his bones experienced thermal fracture," according to a gut-wrenching lawsuit his widow and parents have now filed against the electric auto manufacturer headed up by billionaire Elon Musk.

"He was eight inches shorter in length than he was before he burned," attorney S. Scott West told The Independent. "That's thermal fracture."

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[–] 111 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Sheehan was driving home when the Cybertruck “left the road” and struck a large concrete culvert, after which the vehicle’s “hyper volatile” battery system went into “thermal runaway” – a chain reaction of short-circuits ultimately resulting in uncontrollable temperature escalation – and caught fire.

Once power was lost, it was impossible for Sheehan to open the Cybertruck’s electrically operated doors in the normal way, the complaint goes on, highlighting a major issue that has similarly doomed others riding in Teslas. The external door handles also failed to work, and the emergency manual door release handles within the Cybertruck are “unreasonably difficult to locate in an emergency,” the complaint states.

These design problems are so glaringly obvious that the fact Tesla hasn't bothered to fix them gives big "fuck you" vibes. A company's culture comes from the top.

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  • [–] 109 points 1 year ago (9 children)
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    [–] 102 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Elon: If the bones disintegrated, how do you know anyone was even in there? 😏

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  • [–] 87 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    How appropriate that a Swastitruck cremates its drivers.

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  • [–] 48 points 1 year ago

    Load up batteries into a Swastikar with a massive number of recalls that was manufactured by a company run by an ultimate idiot who lives by "move fast and break things" ...

    What did you think you bought? Something good? 🤡 🫏 🖕 💩

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You signed your death warrant when you bought an Incel Camino

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    So, a mobile crematorium. How apt.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    The perfect fake death.

    Take out huge loan. Take out massive life insurance policy. Flip Tesla. Ignite.

    Idk, head to somewhere with no extradition by cargo boat or some shit.

    Edit: okay there's a flaw. You gotta drive a cyber truck.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    okay but that's pretty fucking metal

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  • [+] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
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    [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    That's 2,760 C. holy shit. poor guy. I'm so glad these hunks of rubbish are banned here in the UK

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    5 out of 10: Shit car; great Viking funeral.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    I'd rather not fuck him, thanks. There are enough wives/baby mamas who have done that at this point.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    It's all computers!

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    a 100k charcuterie machine, a mobile crematorium, or a venison slicer. a swiss army knife of cars.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Technician A: "Here's where the infant went through the windshield. Three points."

    Technician B: "The teenager's braces around the backseat ashtray would make a good "anti-smoking" ad.

    Technician A: "The father must've been huge. See how the fat burnt into the driver's seat with his polyester shirt? Very "modern art."

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Tesla ad: SAVE BIG ON BURIAL/CREMATION SERVICES

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    So they're providing free cremation services now eh?

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    [–] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I don’t know how so maybe this isn’t entirely true, but I’ve seen past news reports of Cybertrucks having to be buried due to the temperature of these fires. Supposedly they burn so hot that they are difficult to extinguish.

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