My son came over for dinner last night. We were taking about the events of the day and I told him a Tesla Cybertruck exploded near the Trump Hotel. I said it looked like a bomb was in it. He said "Nah, that's just what they do. They catch on fire." It took me showing him to the video for him to get it wasn't just a normal Tesla issue/problem.

It's a longstanding myth.

He spoke of many issues with this vehicle.

Happy New Year to both of you.

For one, some of the people they bring are not smarter or better prepared than us here...I have been in that boat, the company I worked for started using H1-B visas to bring people from India, we had to prepare them to do the job, some of them could not catch up.

Nice people. One of the people I trained was so thankful that he asked me to stop by his house to have something to eat with him and his family, I did. We ate on the floor, they did not have any furniture, they were sleeping on bed sheets, no pillows, and they could not afford it because they were not getting paid enough. Luckily we had at home about three mattresses that we were not using, and they were pretty new, so I gave the mattresses to them.

And the bottom line is, we train those people so they can replace us. Its like constructing one's own guillotine.

Just a shortage of talented people who are willing to work for peanuts.

Same for their cars with their lame outdated styling. A decade ago different assumptions would have been made.

When an electric car burns it is a major problem.

I had one car go on fire while I was driving. It was over 20 years ago, and not a EV. I had to abandon ship.

fortunately it was a rental car.

If they is electric vehicles, or toyotas with big batteries, I believe you, easily.

If they is tesla, or specificly tesla cybertrucks... I'd really want to see actual data.

The first thing I thought when I saw the video of the explosion, What caused it? If only President Biden had secured the border.

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The mini-series is "Fresno" which parodies the prime-time soap-opera-type TV series of the time. One plot line in "Fresno" has the diabolical older brother played by Charles Grodin involved in a plan to bump off his younger, idealistic, environmentally minded brother played by Anthony Heald. One morning, the younger brother's car blows to pieces just after he parked it and walked away from it. He excitedly tells his older brother that someone has just tried to kill him. The older brother pooh-poohs him by saying, "Nobody is trying to kill you. I saw where they have been having that kind of trouble with those models."

I believe Carol Burnett was in it as well.

"This tastes like Fresno!!!"

It contained the explosion and saved lives.

If you look at the video the top of the "truck" bed disintegrated allowing the sides of the bed to direct the blast upward instead of toward the buildings entrance. Those "trucks" have been plauged with failures and recalls since they've been on the market. To me it looks like something a child might have built in his backyard out of plywood.

As a young driver many years ago, and older guy told me never to buy a first year vehicle. Wait till year 2 or 3.

The Tesla assembly plants are non-union so they are off my list anyway.

Or they would be, if I had enough money for Tesla to ever be ON my list in the first place!

I worked in Tier I automotive many years.

You wait till they get the kinks out of it

I waited until July of '21. Almost all of DU was vaccinated by March or April.

Particularly for those that paid, either $120k, or $100k for the early models, they are out of their minds.

I sure won’t be losing any sleep over it.

Ugliest vehicle on the road.