Angela Chao, a billionaire and sister to Elaine Chao, Trump's Secretary of Transportation, tragically died after her Tesla car, specifically a Model X with a criticized "shifter" design, slipped into a pond on her Texas ranch. The incident occurred when she mistakenly put the car in reverse instead of drive, a mistake she had previously made with the Tesla gearshift. Despite the tragedy, the family does not blame Tesla, with Breyer, Angela's brother-in-law and a friend of Elon Musk, having owned three Teslas. The incident has sparked discussions around the safety of Tesla's gearshift design, criticized by some as dangerously unconventional. Additionally, connections between Breyer, a friend of Musk, and Elaine Chao, who oversaw the NHTSA from 2017 to 2021 without significant regulation of Tesla, have raised questions about potential regulatory leniency towards Tesla's safety issues.
MyPOV: so poorly written researched it reads like a bunch of amateurs covered this story. @WSJ A Mistake in a Tesla and a Panicked Final Call: The Death of Angela Chao https://t.co/pLwJKuxaBg
I'd like to see @uber and @lyft let riders opt out of deathtraps I have to disassemble a door I am unfamiliar with and pull an unlabeled cable to escape if my gig economy driver working 80+ hours a week drives off the road into a body of water. https://t.co/IiAxl3RuU7
Left unsaid in the story of Chao drowning because she accidentally put her Tesla into reverse is the Model X's ridiculously dangerous "shifter" design. Any other carmaker would change this immediately (and would never have used it in the first place). Musk doesn't give a fuck. https://t.co/VymHjZV71v
In the USA, a billionaire woman died after accidentally driving into a pond in a Tesla car https://t.co/SdQqouQuU4 https://t.co/Sp8RMhA8Dx
My Uber driver is steering with his elbows and angrily yelling into his phone — pray for me
"Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao doesn’t seem to understand self-driving cars" https://t.co/qUR3vSTyqy Ironic that this moron's brother-in-law (Breyer) is friends with Musk and her sister died in a Tesla.
So I read this story and it freaked me out so much that I panic ordered multiple tools for shattering windows of a submerged car “A Mistake in a Tesla and a Panicked Final Call: The Death of Angela Chao”https://t.co/VU318e6Trj
Though she was one of the world’s most powerful women, when Angela Chao's car slipped beneath the cold water in a pond on her sprawling Texas ranch, all the power and status in the world were irrelevant. Hers is a tragic story of a life cut short. https://t.co/vjXCSmQspH
It's FASCINATING that Breyer, the brother-in-law of Trump's Secretary of Transportation (Elaine Chao, who was in charge of NHTSA) is "a friend of Musk's." THAT might explain NHTSA doing ZERO from 2017 to 2021 to regulate Tesla's multiple deadly safety issues. https://t.co/Kgox3sCnRp
"While making a 3-point turn, she put the car in reverse instead of drive... It is a mistake she had made before with the Tesla gearshift." "No one in the family blames Tesla... Breyer and his wife had three Teslas and loved them... Breyer considers himself a friend of Musk’s." https://t.co/Kgox3sCnRp