To make this story make sense:

Leon County is 40% non-white.

Full-self defusing: subscribe to not explode

Even I can math that math!

Spoilers: I pre-mathed it. It’s dismal or very funny, depending on if your car is a Tesla: https://fuelarc.com/evs/the-top-3-fastest-depreciating-cars-in-2026-are-all-teslas/

“The wheel rolled away autonomously, so FSD was achieved” - Elon

“this stunt worked” is relative.

Look at their . By comparison, Toyota moved 11-12 million.

Gravity is inevitable. 1.5 million units a year is a unsustainable failure if the stock price is $300+. They need to multiply it by something insane like 20x for the stock price to make sense.

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I mean they’re already white, just throw little sturmtruppen hats on them

It should make the whoopie cushion sound when the electric system fails and all the doors jam.

The fact that “it didn’t catch fire and the doors opened” is the measure of success means that the bar is really on the floor for Teslas.

For real though don’t run over the bar with a Tesla, if it goes through the battery, you’re toast

Happy Labor Day 😎

It’s a Cybertruck thing! If you look at photos of wrecks, you’ll see an inordinate number that tossed a wheel.

I was just thinking… last time this happened, in 2013, the NHTSA investigated 2 fires and Tesla issued a free fix.

I wonder what changed to make Tesla fear the NHTSA so little? :>

What, is carpentry illegal now…?

15 EVs ignited, 6 allowed to burn without mitigation, 9 they tried to extinguish, 2 of which reignited.

I’m famously bad at headlines, but it’s both an interesting study and a hard-to-distill-into-a-headline study.

That’s hilarious and I had never heard of it, sure enough, Volvo has a factory moose crash-test dummy.

https://www.popsci.com/technology/moose-crash-test-dummy-volvo/

y’all not got bendy bollards? most bollards are bendy.

is that just a Chicago thing? they don’t trust us with solid bollards, it would be a mass-casualty-incident instantly

A non-existent car is ALSO safer than a human-driven car, so it’ll sound weird coming from an automotive journalist, but I totally agree. There’s no car safer than a railway car.

The human safety supervisor of a Tesla Robotaxi who crashed was apparently sleep deprived and having a mental health episode, so, if you think self-driving cars will insulate you from human foibles, just you wait. The futures going to get real weird!

Broadly I agree, though. The goal is better-than-human. It really shouldn’t ever cross a solid line, though.

That was this case, it’s all self-reported so take it with a grain of salt, but it was interesting food for thought: https://electrek.co/2026/07/28/tesla-self-driving-manager-rolling-hazards-lawsuit/

I actually looked into that…!

The Google Maps interface lets you see when the street was imaged. It’s been that way since 2024, at least. A helpful Redditor shared the link to it.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/VZRjSc325Kg7Vpq17

I’m bad as an automotive journalist. What I lack in skill, I make up for with effort and comedic timing