Lawsuit: "Defectively Designed" Cybertruck burns in crash -- driver's bones disintegrated

[allegorical oracle]

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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The suit by Sheehan's family says the single-vehicle crash would have normally been survivable, but that the "defectively designed" Cybertruck instead trapped the registered nurse inside and incinerated him alive.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/tesla-cybertruck-lawsuit-driver-burned-bones-disintegrated-b2771728.html

[area51]

1. omg

[Marie Marie]

2. Those ugly rolling monsters have so many safety issues I still keep asking,

How did Elon get these things on the road when Ford and GM would have had to make so many changes to comply with auto safety standards.How was he able to bypass so many obvious design flaws?

[allegorical oracle]

3. Same here. Seems like Tesla can skirt the National Highway Safety and Transportation

Act. After I posted this, saw a headline that one of the self-driving Teslas being tested took a wrong turn, got onto train tracks, and was hit by a train. Recall reading that Musk said he'd have self-driving taxis ready to go soon.