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Multiple Tesla vehicles were set on fire in Las Vegas and Kansas City (www.theverge.com)
submitted 18 hours ago by ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] Curmudge_john@lazysoci.al 98 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (4 children)

We know that Teslas sometimes just catch fire on their 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)

[–] HelloHotel@lemmy.world 1 points 33 minutes 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 16 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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 7 points 4 hours ago

They've already shown what they are capable of, in terms of scam behavior, up in Canada.

[–] Nindelofocho@lemmy.world 56 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Didnt the Nazi party burn down the Reichstag and blame it on the other party?

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 18 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

They blamed it on the communist party, yes. There were 8 parties represented in the Reichstag at the time though.

[–] Nindelofocho@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

Thank you. My history has unfortunately become a bit rusty

[–] techclothes@lemmy.world 15 points 12 hours ago

Given Elons history, it's definitely possible.