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Fire fighters reportedly used 32,000 gallons of water and spent hours suppressing the fire that resulted from the electric vehicle crash.

TheCatt wrote: ↑Mon Apr 19, 2021 8:34 am No one in drivers seat during fatal accident.

Tesla chief Elon Musk was unsurprisingly unhappy with this, saying his company "sure would appreciate" a change in the law to avoid this workaround. The proposed law would have allowed any automaker to sell directly to customers in Texas so long as the vehicles were entirely electric and weren't sold through dealerships, opening the door to Tesla as well as competitors like Rivian.

Leisher wrote: ↑Tue Jun 22, 2021 3:45 pm Whistleblower fired by Tesla heads to the 9th Circuit.

Leisher wrote: ↑Wed Jun 23, 2021 9:41 am I do too. Based on her story I'm actually a little surprised that media savvy Elon hasn't reached out to resolve this before it became a bigger issue.

Leisher wrote: ↑Wed Jun 23, 2021 9:41 am I do too. Based on her story I'm actually a little surprised that media savvy Elon hasn't reached out to resolve this before it became a bigger issue.

TheCatt wrote: ↑Wed Jun 23, 2021 10:09 am

Leisher wrote: ↑Wed Jun 23, 2021 9:41 am I do too. Based on her story I'm actually a little surprised that media savvy Elon hasn't reached out to resolve this before it became a bigger issue.

Leisher wrote: ↑Wed Jun 23, 2021 9:41 am I do too. Based on her story I'm actually a little surprised that media savvy Elon hasn't reached out to resolve this before it became a bigger issue.

That's not his style. Remember the whole pedo thing?

GORDON wrote: ↑Wed Jun 23, 2021 11:40 am Anything ever come of it, or did he keep quiet because he knew it was true?

Unsworth brought the suit against Musk in September 2018, after the Tesla and SpaceX CEO had called him “sus” (suspicious) and a “pedo guy” on Twitter earlier that summer. Musk also characterized the spelunker as a “child rapist” in e-mails to Buzzfeed reporter Ryan Mac, and practically requested the lawsuit in August 2018 with a tweet that said, “Don’t you think it’s strange he hasn’t sued me?”

In his testimony during the defamation trial this week, Musk apologized to Unsworth and said he did not believe the cave explorer was a pedophile.

Musk and his defense team, led by attorney Alex Spiro, argued that “pedo guy” was simply heated rhetoric and not meant as a statement of fact. They also argued that the phrase “pedo guy” is widely known as slang for “creepy old guy.” And they suggested that Unsworth was looking for a payday in court, and had not sincerely been harmed by the “pedo guy” label.

The clash between the two men began when Unsworth criticized Musk for involving himself, and his employees, in an effort to rescue 12 boys and their soccer coach from flooded caves in Thailand in July 2018.

Unsworth’s expertise and knowledge of the caves proved instrumental in extracting the soccer team. He is credited as being a leader of the rescue effort.