SF News Day Around The Bay: Elvira Donates Tesla With 'Elon Sux' Painted On It To NPR Trump issued an executive order calling for swathes of US national forests to be used for timber; Elvira donated her Tesla to NPR while wearing a "Make America Goth Again" hat; and a San Mateo substitute teacher was arrested for possession of child pornography.
SF News Scenes From Saturday's Protest at SF's Tesla Showroom Yesterday‘s rally at SF’s Tesla showroom had another large turnout with protesters crowded around the intersection and in the center island on Van Ness. The energy was lively as participants chanted and waved to drivers who honked encouragingly, along with the occasional dog, barking in solidarity.
SF News Meet The Organizer Who Turned The Tesla Showroom Into a Weekly Protest Hub Patty Moddelmog has been spearheading Saturday protests outside the Tesla showroom in SF, and about 200 people showed up last week, with the Brass Liberation Orchestra adding a tuba bass line to chants like, “People over profit, stop the coup!"
SF News Day Around the Bay: Tesla Sales Plummet In Europe Tesla sales decreased by 45% across Europe in January; Oakland city departments were found to have paid more than $1.6 million in excess overtime over the past six years; and a man who shot at San Leandro police was charged.
SF News Sunday Links: Yosemite Workers Hang 'Distress Flag' From El Capitan Yosemite workers hang "distress flag" from El Capitan in view of Firefall spectators; SFUSD is discussing 559 preliminary layoffs on Tuesday; and protestors were outside Tesla again.
SF News Saturday Links: Daily Beast Breaks, Then Deletes, Bombshell Story That Trump Was Allegedly Recruited By KGB in 1987 The Daily Beast broke the news that the KGB allegedly recruited Trump in 1987, which they've deleted; Twilio signed a three-year lease for its current Rincon Center space but maintains its remote-first policy; and the suspected killer of Too Short's brother has been linked to a more recent murder.
SF News Sunday Links: Protesters Rally Outside Tesla Showrooms Discouraging Buyers Protestors gathered outside of Tesla showrooms across the Bay Area calling for a boycott yesterday; a group of activists in Kentucky recently purchased land that was being considered for a new federal prison; and Canadian sports fans are booing the American anthem at international games.
SF News Piedmont Undergrad Cybertruck Crash Victims Had Cocaine and Alcohol in Their Systems, Says Toxicology Report After an early morning Cybertruck crash in Piedmont killed three college sophomores in November, the Alameda County Coroner’s Office has determined that the driver and the two other victims had cocaine and alcohol in their systems.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Claims Tesla Will Have Self-Driving Robotaxis This Year, Which He Has Claimed in Five Previous Years This is at least the fifth time that Elon Musk has declared he’d have self-driving cars this year, though if it ends up being true, at least they would start rolling in Texas and not San Francisco.
SF News Tesla Reportedly In Autopilot Mode Plows Into Mission District Plant Store A plant store called Mellow SF was hit by a Tesla that was reportedly in autopilot mode early Sunday afternoon, but the car seems to have taken more damage than the shop, and no people or plants were harmed.
SF News One Killed, Seven Injured In Multi-Vehicle SoMa Crash; Tesla Driver Detained, Linked Also to Freeway Crash A violent collision Sunday evening on Sixth Street between Bryant and Harrison streets involved seven cars, and left one person and a dog dead. The suspect vehicle that may have caused the crash is also linked to a hit-and-run incident minutes earlier on I-280.
SF News One Person Dead After Tesla Cybertruck Explodes Outside Trump Hotel In Las Vegas In a highly symbolic New Year's Day event, a Tesla Cybertruck exploded as it sat outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas, leaving one person dead, and speculation is swirling about a possible link to the tragedy in New Orleans hours earlier.
SF News Family of Cybertruck Owner Says Allegedly Antisemitic License Plate Was Misunderstanding Over Tagalog After an outrage last week that the DMV approved a license plate which appeared to make a joke about the October 7 attacks against Israel, the family of the truck’s owner says people are misunderstanding that it was meant as an unrelated Tagalog reference.
Business & Tech Tesla Temporarily Halts Cybertruck Production, Amidst Rumors of Slumping Demand Assembly line workers at a Tesla production plant that makes Cybertrucks were told to take the next three days off, without explanation, and the Tesla rumor mill says it may be because of declining sales.
SF News Three Dead, One Injured In Early Morning Fiery Cybertruck Crash In Piedmont A Tesla Cybertruck jumped a curb, hit a cement wall, and burst into flames just after 3 am Wednesday morning in Piedmont, and three of the four occupants in the car died at the scene.
Business & Tech Feds Probing Tesla ‘Full Self-Driving’ Mode After Pedestrian Killed, Plus Multiple Other Crashes Amidst several reports of Teslas in “Full Self-Driving” mode having crashes in low-visibility conditions, including one crash that killed someone, a federal road safety agency is now investigating whether the Tesla technology might be to blame.
SF News Driver Dead After Tesla Crashes Into Fremont Apartment Building A driver died in a fiery high-speed crash Monday evening in Fremont that caused a structure fire at an apartment building.
SF News Tesla Semi Truck Crash and Fire on I-80 Being Investigated By Feds A crash and subsequent battery fire earlier this week involving one of Tesla's semi trucks that shut down I-80 in both directions for most of an entire day is now being investigated by the National Transportation Safety Board.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Tesla Semi Truck Catches Fire, Shuts I-80 In Sierra A Tesla electric big rig caught fire on I-80 in the Sierra; San Jose just had its 32nd pedestrian death this year; and it's back-to-school day in SF.
Business & Tech Tesla In ‘Full Self-Driving’ Mode Goes Plowing Into Police Car An Orange County Tesla driver wasn’t actually driving his Tesla while cruising past the scene of a fatal car accident last week, and that Tesla in self-driving mode went and crashed into a police car.
Business & Tech Tesla Shareholders Sue Elon Musk For Starting Competing AI Company, xAI Elon Musk has often said that Tesla is an AI company, and not just a car company, and now some shareholders in Tesla want to hold him to that.
Business & Tech Has the Self-Driving Car Bubble Burst? Some Analysts Say So, As Apple Exits the Autonomous Vehicle Race When the $70 billion tech giant Apple abandons an idea, it may be an idea simply not worth pursuing, which could be the state of the suddenly struggling autonomous vehicle industry.
SF News Are the Waymo and Tesla Arsonists the Same Person? The SFPD has reportedly made an arrest in connection with the arson of an autonomous Waymo taxi in Chinatown last month, and they say the suspect is linked to other vehicle arson cases.
SF News SFPD Suspects An Arsonist Is Targeting Teslas After Two Catch on Fire in SoMa Police are investigating after they discovered two Tesla Model Ys on fire within a few blocks of each other in San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood early Saturday morning.
SF News Tesla To Pay $1.5 Million After Lawsuit From 25 California Counties, Including SF, Over Illegal Dumping of Hazmat Waste A lawsuit from 25 different counties in the state, including eight in the Bay Area, claimed that Tesla violated state regulations about the proper storage, disposal and management of hazardous waste.
