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Students Burned Alive in a Cybertruck

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0:00 Or maybe if the car is hot or whatever, reach a certain temperature, all doors just automatically open. >> I like that. >> So in Vegas, all the car parts. >> Yeah. Yeah. Just pop right >> until that turns into another, you know, lawsuit when the door flings open and hits somebody in the head. >> Welcome back to another episode of the Careful Boys, where we do some serious news out here. There was a car crash in the end of November of last year via a Tesla Cybert truck that was speeding, ran into a tree, and here's the problem. >> They killed themselves. >> Well, uh, that's that's too strong to start. We'll get back to that. Three victims ended up dying in this crash, >> and the rear passengers reportedly were unable to escape. Now, let me ask you

0:51 guys a question. You guys have all been in Teslas, right? What do you mean? >> You guys have Have you guys been in a Cybert truck as well? >> I have not been in a Cybert truck. >> It's really It's really fun. It's really nice. >> Shout out to Cybertruck. >> Okay, so anybody who's familiar with the Tesla, okay, you guys know that they have the push button door opens, right? You just push a button, it opens. That's kind of how it works. We're not talking about the handles on the outside where you like >> No, you press it and it goes. >> Yeah. But do you guys also know that there is a manual function uh door handle? I would have been ████ >> if it goes into the ocean and and I'm in a Tesla. I would have been ████ >> You just hitting the button the whole time? >> Yeah, >> I think I mean in the ocean. >> What's the manual? >> Can you pop off like a armrest and there's a hidden handle or something? >> No, it's actually just right there. >> Oh, >> yeah. It just looks It's like smoothly integrated in the door handle. So, you wouldn't have assumed it was a handle unless you knew there's actually a

1:41 regular car handle here. >> That'd be nice if they would have told us. >> I think there's the argument. >> I didn't even know how to open the Tesla door on the outside. Me, too. >> So, there is a uh girl who died in the car accident. And it's important to know that she's kind of fine because everybody sympathizes when somebody's a little bit more >> hell yeah. You don't want you don't want wasted puss. >> Yeah, but she looked like a teenager. >> ████ >> Okay, we'll take the photo down now just in case. That's good catch, Joe. Good catch. We don't We don't want to get >> So, what happened? The The car went up in flames. So, her name is Christa and her parents. Her parents are suing the company Tesla as uh onlookers were unable to remove her from the car that was going up in flames >> cuz it was like us who were like, "What the f███?" And then we're trying to hit the button and ████ >> Yeah. >> Can't get it. And the car is probably hot as ████ cuz it's a cyber truck.

2:33 >> It's all steel and ████ >> So, she she's 19. She was uh she was riding the backseat of a cybert truck along with Jack Nelson, age 20, while Saurin Dixon, age 19, was driving. >> She's a legal teen. Did you say that she was 19 right now because you felt uncomfortable about what you had previously? >> I just had to make sure. >> Okay. >> Yeah. So, the Tesla vehicle smashed into a retaining wall and tree at high speed in San Francisco and burst into flames. Three of the college students died while a fourth passenger managed to escape after an onlooker smashed the windscreen uh with a tree branch. The family of Nelson also filed a lawsuit as both claimed the design of the doors of the electric vehicle from Elon Musk's company made it nearly impossible for the children to escape. And the the the windshield wasn't supposed to break cuz remember he said that it was supposed to be like super bulletproof and then he threw that thing and it broke. >> I believe it was a door that was supposed to be bulletproof. >> Well, he was talking some mad ████ about

3:23 the windows and then he immediately broke it. >> Yep. >> So Tesla again, they're they're uh pioneers for car doors that open or shut with the push of a button. And latches the latches rely on a 12volt battery separate from the high voltage battery that drives the Cybertruck's electric motor. So, if a crash happens to cut off the power, the electronic door might not function, which was the case in this particular incident. >> Oh, damn. The lawsuit claims that Nixon and Christa survived the crash with minor injuries, but then couldn't escape the burning vehicle as it had lost power and the electronic door release system failed. >> That's so sad. >> The students are said to have died of burns and smoke inhalation from being trapped inside with the suits claiming the manual door releases were too hard for them to locate. >> Locate or not even know. So that that's kind of like the larger issue here. The claim basically is saying that it's um like it would be nice if you would have

4:13 like educated or or it was easy to understand or was intuitive to know that there is a manual door and you're not just relying on this electronic thing you think you can't get out. >> Is this where we go to a world where like you have to paint the handles red or something? >> No, but I do like analog ████ like uh I that's one of the reasons I turned my car back in the new tech ████ I really don't like Bart likes doing this with the windows. >> Yeah, he misses the >> I like automatic windows, but then like the you know like the um I don't know if your car does it, but like the new new Teslas, there's they don't even have a shifter. >> Oh, yeah. I I still have toggles. Yeah. >> Yeah. You have to go like this >> on the screen. >> I'm like imagine you have to make an emergency three-point turn. Like if you're a ████ like a detective, whatever, right? And the days of like are over. You have to go click. >> Yeah. >> Like you can't even make emergency maneuvers. That's crazy. >> Yeah. Cuz at our job, we do a lot of we

5:04 we turn u we make people do U-turns a lot and it's always a Tesla go stuck in that one angle. >> They don't know how to U-turn >> or they're just trying to find it maybe >> cuz you have to swipe to shift. So imagine going reverse and then you go and then swipe to drive and then swipe to reverse instead of like >> it's not intuitive. >> Yeah, that's crazy. >> Compared to like a Tacoma, we could just go >> Yeah. I'm only going to drive cars under 1996. >> Yeah. >> 1996. >> And then now I want a window like this cuz I get worried like >> what if I get trapped in the ocean and I got to ████ open up. >> Yeah. But those tend to break a lot too. >> Or you have one of those um window breaker things just on the side. >> Oh yeah. >> Or on your or on your keys. Dude, my mom used to watch way too much Oprah and she

5:55 Oprah one time had an expert on who like was teaching women how to use this one tool to break the window and then my mom was like I have to buy this and I'm like we don't even live near water mom and she's just like I have to I have to [snorts] I have to have this now >> in case she falls in >> like for no reason. >> Do you guys remember that one tool? It was like an emergency. It had the thing >> cuts the seat belt cuts and then Yeah. It had like a couple of things on it but no one has it anymore. >> No. All you need is like a if I I keep a knife in my car. You just have you just throw that against the glass. >> Damn. >> Or the end of the knife. Yeah. Sad. >> She is beautiful, man. And then it sucks, you know, wasted life because they couldn't find a door handle, you know, and it's someone's kid, a daughter, 19year-old. >> There's a beautiful guy, too. There's there's there's a lot of good-looking people that that pass. >> Who's in Florida? >> Uh San Francisco. >> San Francisco.

6:45 >> Yeah. So, both the wrongful death suits are seeking unspecified punitive damages against Tesla. Uh, the claim says rear passengers like Jack were left with only a concealed mechanical release that was obscure, non-intuitive, and highly unlikely to be located or operated in the smoke and chaos of a postc crash fire. Now, granted, all the victims had cocaine, alcohol, and other substances in their systems at the time, with the California Highway Patrol having also stated that impaired driving and speeding were both factors in the crash. They probably were going ████ 100 if you smash into a tree and a retaining wall. >> That's crazy. >> But all of us have partied and I don't think that any of us deserve to die from partying >> even. And I think too like if you're doing cocaine, aren't you like hyper aware? >> Yeah. Aren't you like reverse >> with a drunken and and high? >> Oh, right. >> I think when Tao gets of age, I'm going

7:35 to buy him like a ████ 1980s Jeep that can't go past 50 mph. [laughter] >> Yeah. >> I'm like >> anything past that a speed wobble. >> Yeah. That way if you bump into anything, you're you're good. >> They're dead, not you. [laughter] >> Yeah, >> it it is it is tragic. I do I'm definitely not taking a side. I do have a Tesla obviously. Um I do think anybody who buys a certain type of like cuz now we're not just talking about cars. We're talking about tech. We're talking about like the hardware of like a technological machine, it's like you need to at best educate yourself on how to like use the tech. That's why I don't even go with tech. I know I know I'm too dumb for that ████ >> Yeah, but but okay, Anthony, think about this. Who's driving? Probably the owner of the vehicle, right? The people in the back, you don't give them a tutorial on how to use the car every time. >> No, I like I said, I I do think it sucks. That's why I'm just saying like uh I'm not taking a side on. I'm just

8:25 saying like you're you're going into a like imagine the um the switch from manual transmission to automatic for the first time. You way more intuitive, but you still had to learn a new mechanism. you still had to like understand how it was going to operate. Like I don't have to do this no more. >> But but and I'm not saying that well whatever. I look I think regulations are often whack as hell. Like every time I'm on an airplane and they're giving the same damn speech before we get to go and they're talking about the what's coming from the compartments and all that stuff. I'm like can I just hit I agree and we just move on. Like cuz so there's just so much like red tape. >> Well because now that you've learned it is all. >> Right. But but is but is that what you want for a car too? It's like you can't get in the car yet. you have to like look at a tutorial before you get in the damn car or whatever. It's not even your car has >> to do it, >> right? It's not even your car. It's just >> I I think I mean ultimately I think that

9:16 the lawsuit has grounds because anything in a a beginning adoption of something like new like is going to need to go. It's like Trunks didn't have glow-in-the-dark emergency like release open things until kids got kidnapped. >> Exactly. you know, but like you weren't when you were manufacturing, I'm guessing they weren't thinking like, "Yo, dude, everybody's going to start getting kidnapped in these trunks. We got to put, you know, it wasn't until probably a lawsuit happened and then it's like, all right, we need to put these like emergency escape handles that glow in the dark in there." >> Yeah, we could cut cut it off. >> You know, tragic things have to happen in order for like the more appropriate things to to be developed is all. So, like Tesla's probably going to have to pay some sort of settlement. And I think it's right that >> and then maybe all cars moving forward have a manual something. >> Yeah. Or something that's more intuitive. I think it's going to have to happen. >> Well, they already had the manual thing. Now, that's what I'm saying. Like, do

10:06 you paint it? Like, do you make it glow in the dark? Do you like >> something? >> Or maybe if the car is hot or whatever, reach a certain temperature, all doors just automatically open. >> I like that. >> So, in Vegas, all the car doors. >> Yeah. Just pop right >> until that turns into another, you know, lawsuit when the door flings open and hits somebody in the head. [laughter] >> Yeah. Yeah. Or it it flings open and and just you're driving on the highway. >> Why can't we just have a engine four seats frame? That's it. Let's go. >> Toyota, you know, they that's one of the weirdest things is that we can't have like affordable trucks here that are like mini that other I don't know why there's like weird regulations. >> Ours is mainly collision. >> Oh, >> cuz we go so fast here. Well, we still also have the smart cars and stuff here. >> No, I think what he's talking about is like there's these really sought after

10:57 group of trucks that are available like in Japan or Australia or whatever. We can't have them here just cuz we have freeways that go 75 80 or whatever. >> But that's what I'm saying though, like what's truly the difference between something like that versus like one of those smart cars? >> No, smart cars are actually super strong and super safe because they're actually built in uh by Mercedes. >> They're actually super strong, super safe, and they're built by Mercedes. Okay. So, if Mercedes makes a really small >> small truck like like the the new Amazon project, the Slate or whatever, is that what it's called? >> The truck. Yeah. >> Those things are super small. >> Yeah. >> Cuz they're customizable. You can like add a snug top basically turn into a SUV. You can make it kind of like a hatchback or whatever. >> Starting 30 GS. >> Yeah. But it can also just be a truck bed, but they're also really small. >> Those mini trucks, you could get them for like six grand. It's ████ cheap, dude. And then they

11:47 use them like as a work truck. Oh, that's why they can't be here. >> Maybe it's going to be >> undercut big trucks. Maybe. >> By the way, I don't think this lawsuit has no grounds. I just think that sometimes we go a little far when something tragic happens and and we end up doing silly silly things. >> Yeah. >> It already has a manual thing. Now, you can't have like a design if it if it looks a certain way. Like, I don't know about that. And the lawyer is probably going to be like, "Hey, there was obviously a manual door, blah, blah, blah, blah." But because they're under the influence, it might have counter that >> impair their judgment. >> Impair the judgment on. >> Yeah. I think it's not going to work because they're they're going to blame that they're on cocaine and >> Exactly. then it might still at the very least turn into one of those things that maybe the suit uh maybe the people who are following the suits won't get exactly what they want, but like in

12:37 order to compromise, Tesla may also have to make an adjustment to the intuitiveness of the manual handles. You know, >> I'm personally fine with it cuz I've looked like an absolute ████ getting out of Teslas before cuz I don't know where the hell the handle is or nothing. So, I'm fine with it. But, so yeah, I take it back. Okay, I'm fine with it. >> I'd rather have a horse. >> Way more manual. >> Whoa. Dja Vu. [laughter] >> You get deja vu right now? >> You heard Joe say you rather have a horse before the >> exactly same ████ >> Really? >> Yeah. This is crazy. >> What happened next? >> We cut. >> That's all right there. [laughter]

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