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What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Trapped in a Tesla

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News Commentary, Politics, News

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2025

⏱️ 29 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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1:01.5

A quick warning before we get started today, we describe some car crashes in detail.

1:07.9

This show is probably not appropriate to listen to with kids.

1:12.3

Okay, here's the show.

1:21.6

Last November, Krista Sukahara flew home from college for Thanksgiving break.

1:27.3

Krista was the first year at the Savannah College of Art and Design, but she'd grown up in Piedmont, California,

1:28.8

across the bay from San Francisco. It was the Tuesday before the holiday. Christa had dinner with her

1:34.7

family, then went to meet up with some friends from high school. They all hung out at someone's

1:40.3

house. At some point, Krista and some other friends piled into a cyber truck.

1:46.5

That's Dana Hull, who covers Tesla and Elon Musk for Bloomberg News.

1:51.2

And at 3 o'clock in the morning, that cyber truck crashed into a tree and a retaining wall

1:56.3

and got kind of wedged between the two of them, caught on fire, and Krista and the driver and

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