Trapped in a Tesla
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🗓️ 28 September 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
When you’re getting out of an Uber, Tesla’s unintuitive door handle can embarrass you. In an emergency, getting out of the car quickly can be the difference between life and death.
Guest: Dana Hull, Bloomberg News reporter covering Tesla and Elon Musk
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| 1:07.8 | A quick warning before we get started today, we describe some car crashes in detail. |
| 1:14.4 | This show is probably not appropriate to listen to with kids. |
| 1:17.6 | Okay, here's the show. |
| 1:23.5 | Last November, Krista Sukahara flew home from college for Thanksgiving break. |
| 1:29.2 | Krista was the first year at the Savannah College of Art and Design, but she'd grown up in |
| 1:33.9 | Piedmont, California, across the bay from San Francisco. It was the Tuesday before the holiday. |
| 1:40.1 | Krista had dinner with her family, then went to meet up with some friends from high school. |
| 1:45.0 | They all hung out at someone's house. At some point, Krista and some other friends piled into a cyber truck. |
| 1:52.9 | That's Dana Hull, who covers Tesla and Elon Musk for Bloomberg News. |
| 1:57.7 | And at 3 o'clock in the morning, that cyber truck crashed into a tree and a retaining |
| 2:02.5 | wall and got kind of wedged between the two of them, caught on fire, and Krista and the driver |
| 2:11.3 | and another passenger all died. But Krista, who was 19, was not killed instantly, which some of her friends who were following behind in another car quickly realized. |
| 2:25.3 | She survived the impact of the crash, but died in the fire, and the friend that was desperately trying to rescue her could not open the doors. Can you explain that for listeners? |
| 2:38.2 | Yeah, so like a lot of electric vehicles or a lot of cars that have electric door handles, |
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