2 dead after fiery crash involving self-driving Tesla, authorities said
Monday, April 19, 2021 7:00AM
SPRING, Texas (KTRK) — Two people died in a fiery crash involving a 2019 Tesla Model S and its autopilot functionality while taking it for a test drive on Saturday night, according to authorities.
The flames reportedly took hours to extinguish, and Harris County Precinct 4 Constable Mark Herman said the investigation has led them to believe that there was no one driving the car when the crash occurred.
The crash happened just after 9 p.m. on Hammock Dunes Place in the Carlton Woods Creekside subdivision. The victims were said to have been a 59 and 69-year-old man, however police have not released their names yet.
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The batteries on board the Tesla continued to ignite despite efforts to douse the flames, authorities said. It reportedly took around four hours and more than 30,000 gallons of water before firefighters decided to let the fire burn itself out.
Source: ABC13 Eyewitness News
Demonstrators in Oakland, California vandalized buildings and lit fires during a march in response to two fatal police shootings that have occurred over the past week. Similar unrest has been seen in other US cities.In related radical leftwing authoritarianism and insanity, Black Lives Matter tells white 'ally' at Minnesota protest 'YOU DON'T BELONG':
Hundreds of protesters took to Oakland's streets on Friday night following the killings of two black people at the hands of the police, 13-year-old Adam Toledo in Chicago and 20-year-old Daunte Wright near Minneapolis, local media reported.
Some local businesses had boarded up their windows as a precautionary measure. The city saw riots and looting last year following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Their fears were soon validated. Black-clad demonstrators were spotted smashing the windows of a Target. Local media reported that "several" other businesses were also damaged.
There were also numerous reports of arson. Videos posted to social media purportedly show fires started by the demonstrators. One blaze was lit inside a car dealership. A car parked outside was also targeted, with flames coming out of its broken windows. A large fire was also ignited outside the city's California Bank and Trust building. A local ABC affiliate insisted however that the "majority" of protesters were peaceful.
A white protester who joined in a Black Lives Matter demonstration over Sunday's police shooting in suburban Minneapolis apparently overstepped his bounds, being told to leave for failing to be a proper guest "in a black space."
Footage from Thursday night's protest in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, shows a confrontation between a group of black protestors and a young white man. Washington Examiner journalist Nic Rowan, who posted the video on Twitter, said the conflict began after a group of white protesters told demonstrators to stop throwing water bottles at police.
As a bearded black man tells the white man, "If you don't like that s**t, go that way," a black woman adds, "You're a guest in a black space, remember that. You're white, you already don't belong."
The white man begins to speak, saying "I'm not trying to," but the black woman cuts him off. "But you are," she says. "So shut the f**k up. Shut the f**k up."
The white man begins to walk away after the bearded black man repeatedly tells him to "go that way," pointing away from the crowd. The black woman adds, "You and your compadres go... because you're clearly here for all the wrong mother-f**king reasons." She and other people in the crowd then tell the white man to "get the f**k out."
Another video, posted by Rowan shortly before, shows the same white man admonishing a protester who threw a water bottle over a fence toward police. "This happened after these kids tried to get other protesters to stop throwing water bottles at the police," Rowan said.
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