if you know anything about who did it no you don’t
Multiple Tesla vehicles were set on fire in Las Vegas and Kansas City
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https://www.theverge.com/news/632217/tesla-arson-dealership-vegas-kansas
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cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Jax@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Maybe, maybe this is actually stochastic terrorism being carried out by MAGA themselves.
Think about it, their plan is to declare martial law - right? Conservatives already hate EVs, they think that Trump is a ‘good’ billionaire while billionaires like Gates are ‘bad’ billionaires - I don’t think it would take much to make Musk out to be a ‘bad’ billionaire.
Idk if this is as clear as ‘good guys vs bad guys’ - these are freedom fighters, but it’s never been clearer that a lot of people are divided on what ‘free’ actually means. You shouldn’t assume that the people doing this are actually on your side.
rockhard@lemm.ee 1 year ago
MAGA don’t even like EV’s to begin with.
victoriathecompact@lemm.ee 1 year ago
maybe im deep in the conspiracy but I’m unsure who is doing the vandalism at this point
VanillaFrosty@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The engineers did this, Teslas just kind of do this.
cynar@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s obviously the MAGA crowd. They’ve spent years complaining about electric vehicles. They’ve just escalated that to burning them out. The police need to go have a nice chat with the rolling coal types.
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 1 year ago
Probably god’s will or something. What’s the pont of investigating.
pyre@lemmy.world 1 year ago
they should amend this article to include teslas en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_combustion
ugtug@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Tesla just likes building things that spontaneously catch on fire. 🤷♂️
dmention7@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Man, if I had the poor luck/foresight to have purchased a Tesla earlier, I would be driving like the politest mofo in existence these days.
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’d set it on fire and make an insurance claim.
Curmudge_john@lazysoci.al 1 year ago
We know that Teslas sometimes just catch fire on there own.
We also know that sometimes Tesla drivers will set their cars on fire themselves on purpose. Because of that…
We also know that Elon has a backdoor into all Teslas.
Now ask yourself which is more likely, the woke liberal crybabies actually causing violence or a drug addled and politically embattled CEO of a company that lost 50% of its value in the past 3 months creating a false flag to villainize the left and get insurance to cover damage to the vehicles he can’t sell?
/s (kind of)
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 1 year ago
For the Vegas incident, I’m pretty sure those were customer cars at a collision center.
HelloHotel@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Wdym by "backdoor into all Teslas"
- This could mean "taking an industry standard sorfware update feature and making it abusively aggressive to or push malware to end users"
- it could mean "grants tesla 25-75% of the car’s controls from the internet"
- it could mean the former AND "grants access to diagnostics, settings and controls the consumer cannot access themselves"
- it could also mean “can run arbitrary code on your tesla at any time with little or no notice”
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 1 year ago
If unsold teslas catch fire, i’m convinced it’s some insurance scam. A car sold and a car gone that they can’t fix anyway
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They’ve already shown what they are capable of, in terms of scam behavior, up in Canada.
techclothes@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Given Elons history, it’s definitely possible.
Nindelofocho@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Didnt the Nazi party burn down the Reichstag and blame it on the other party?
smiletolerantly@awful.systems 1 year ago
They blamed it on the communist party, yes. There were 8 parties represented in the Reichstag at the time though.
carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Oh no anyway…
kandoh@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Insurance fraud due to slow sales
pyre@lemmy.world 1 year ago
perfect. let’s see if all tesla dealerships do it
astro_plane@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Tough shit.
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Can’t believe the Insurrection Act is gonna be used because of homie’s swasticars
Lexam@lemmy.world 1 year ago
As a someone from Kansas City I want to say, this is who we are.
cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 1 year ago
beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
I have zero evidence Musk ordered the Tesla vandalism. Which, coincidentally, is exactly how surprised I’d be to find out he had.
mutual_ayed@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Great way to get rid of rotting inventory and recoup costs through insurance.
samus12345@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I’d be surprised if he did. He sees Teslas as an extension of himself. Which is why it’s so very effective at upsetting him whenever people do stuff like this.
Azal@pawb.social 1 year ago
Surely it was a glitch that set the Teslas on fire themselves and no one was involved.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
I have never, and will never, see anyone vandalize a Tesla. 🙈
Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Very fucking GOOD.
the803@lemm.ee 1 year ago
“Resist” is a tired slogan of the paid-to-lose Democrats, and the last time I saw it surface as “angry-Leftist vandalism” in pluto-fash corporate media propaganda, it turned out to be a Republican trying to cover up insurance fraud.
Kool-aid-drinking Tesla dealers are losing their shirts because Glorious Leader locked them into bad contracts and is now poisoning the brand; they have AMPLE incentive to destroy their own property and play victim.
Botzo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
As a reminder, Tesla is “direct to consumer” and the “dealership” is corporate owned!
So when the party of conspiracy theorists claims conspiracy against them, you can rest assured it’s a conspiracy by them.
But that’s what they’d say if the the tables were turned, so fuck 'em and their shit. I hope the insurance adjuster finds a way out and leaves them holding the bag.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 year ago
As a reminder, Tesla is “direct to consumer” and the “dealership” is corporate owned!
Gasoline powered vehicles have to be sold through dealerships, but of course Musk doesn’t like to follow the law and nobody stops him. Just like how ‘ride shares’ pretended to be sharing rides but were just cabs with extra steps.
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
In posts on X following the incident, Tesla CEO Elon Musk called the incidents “terrorism” and said the company “just makes electric cars and has done nothing to deserve these evil attacks.”
OK buddy.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“Evil attacks”, like we’re killing puppies, or something.
It’s vandalism against machines, and the only victim here is the insurance companies.
MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Also some people who bought teslas before all this happened having their rates go up. And the people who had their Tesla vandalized or totaled who didn’t get a good enough payout from insurance to replace it (if you’ve ever dealt with insurance you know you’re not getting the actual value back). I’m not saying I’m losing sleep over it, but still.
I had a friend buy a Tesla after Elon was talking about buying twitter but before one could objectively say he went full fash, and I told him he’d be embarrassed about it eventually. He went through with it because it had X features or whatnot. Do I feel bad for him? A little, but it’s not like the writing wasn’t on the wall. Obviously once Elon was with Trump 24/7 he said he regretted it, but it’s a bit late for that.
There’s no ethical consumption under capitalism, so it sucks to see consumers be targeted, but I understand. I have a phone and I’m sure somewhere child slavery was involved. Does that make me a bad person? Yes, the answer is objectively yes. We’re all making shitty choices every day and if one day someone decides to draw the line and I’m on the wrong side of it, I guess I’ll just have to cope. That’s kinda how I feel about it. So Tesla owners are being harmed too, but I don’t know that I’d call them victims of anything except their own decisions. I’m not sure they deserve it all equally, but we all kinda suck so whatever.
Furbag@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“Evil attacks”, like we’re killing puppies, or something.
Leave the puppy killing to the expert, Kristi Noem.
ragingdachshund@lemm.ee 1 year ago
It’s not terrorism. They were just peacefully touring the dealerships. Just like January 6. Peacefully touring.
fitgse@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
The board needs to remove Elon today.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
the board are his handpicked toadies that have him a bonus despite tesla losing money
Ulrich@feddit.org 1 year ago
You can remove him from the board but he’ll still have all of his shares. And I’d bet he’s not really doing much as Tesla these days anyway.
pivot_root@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Even if they do, protests and boycotts need to continue past it. A lot of his wealth is in Tesla stock, and he’s going to benefit from the shadows if the public moves on and TSLA recovers.
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
yep. I don’t get why they haven’t. He’s tanking their shit badly.
samus12345@lemm.ee 1 year ago
The cars suck, but he’s right that the company hasn’t done anything to deserve this. He’s the one who chose to make himself the face of Tesla, though, so however people feel about him, they’ll feel about any business he owns.
Terrorism, though? Hardly. It’s protest. He’s the one doing terrorism by dismantling the government.
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 1 year ago
This is terrorism. Storming the capitol is clearly not.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The cars are poorly designed to the point of being dangerous. They deserve it a little.
Ulrich@feddit.org 1 year ago
Terrorism, though? Hardly.
Pretty much the definition of terrorism. Doesn’t necessarily make it wrong.
timewarp@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I didn’t see nuffin
db2@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Oh no. Anyway…
rational_lib@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Don’t destroy Tesla cars, destroy the brand. Destroying Teslas means there’s fewer Teslas and that makes them more valuable. The goal is to remove money from Elon, not the customers.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Tesla has much higher output than the number of vehicles that spontaneously combust. So the supply shortage you envision won’t occur unless cars light up by the hundreds or thousands a day. And that’s before accounting for all the extra slack in production created by decreasing demand around the world.
Teslas combusting damages the brand. It’s a material risk of owning a Tesla. It would also mean higher insurance. In fact beyond some combustion threshold, Teslas would become uninsurable. Therefore Teslas on fire directly contributes to decreasing Elon’s purchase power.
potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
In fairness, I think the possibility that someone might light your car on fire is a stronger incentive to not buy a brand than internet posts making fun of the brand. It also means now they have to beef up security at all of the dealerships. Car sales are surprisingly impulse driven, hence the famous high pressure sales tactics, so it’ll be harder to get people in the door if they’re strip searching everyone and if they can’t have as much inventory on the lot, customers can’t drive home with the options they want so less impulse buying. Also full coverage insurance, required for financing, will get more expensive or even impossible to obtain which possibly means a massively decreased customer pool.
I think a better counter argument is the environmental damage caused by lighting all the cancer boxes on fire.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Do teslas even have options? Isn’t it just the battery pack and awd/rwd and then maybe peformance