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  And you thought holiday dinners were tough in your family.
context: Imagine the wait to be rescued for the woman with her two kids knowing her husband just tried to kill them all.. >
  
  Imagine being the husband and realizing you survived along with everyone else and now your family knows you tried to kill them.
  No sympathy, but damn. Hope he gets what he deserves. >
  
  Yeah I imagine it was awkward >
  
  "soooo, you guys hungry?" >
  
  Who wants In-n-Out? >
  
  “There’s a dope Taco Bell further down the road tho” >
  
  “I know a shortcut!” swerves >
  
  “I can’t believe you fell for that..” >
  
  Are we there yet ? >
  
  “———“
  P.S That’s the sound of the Tesla accelerating to get there quicker. >
  
  That was not the outcome I expected to read. Wtf >
  
  Seriously. And can you imagine having to face your family that you tried to off? Hope this guy gets locked up forever if it's true >
  
  I'm sooooo glad they all survived, especially him so he can face the consequences >
  
  This guy will probably have to be on constant suicide watch. 
  I hate to imagine what the marriage must have been like... This is like the biggest sign ever someone could get that an abusive relationship is not worth it 😬
  Edit: I meant it's not worth waiting for things to get better; leave as soon/when as you can. No one deserves abuse >
  
  Literally no one thinks an abusive relationship is “worth it” people stay because they’re scared >
  
  Living with an abusive family member currently while trying to find better paying work. Sitting in my car in the driveway waiting for them to go to sleep so I can slip inside
  Can confirm, not hear because it's a thrilling lifestyle or anything >
  
  I hope you find something fast. You deserve a safe place to live. Don't give up. <3 >
  
  Thank you. A few new better paying positions opened up with my current employer in my area recently so I've applied for several of those. Any of them would be enough to provide a way out even if it's not glamorous. But hey, a studio apartment I feel safe in is better than a rented bedroom I don't.
  I'm also going to have a serious talk with a family friend when I visit them at the end of this month. They'd talked a few times a couple years ago about possibly being able to find me something at the hospital they work at in a support role. Again, not glamorous but I'm by no means too proud to take a job like that if it's a way out. >
  
  Might be worthwhile to sleep in a friend's couch for a bit. I can't imagine what you are going through. Be safe and I hope you are ok. >
  
  unfourtenatly the nearest friend is 9 hours away by car. Trust me, if another easy option was available even if it required groveling I'd have taken it >
  
  My dad almost did this when I was maybe 4 or 5 years old.  parents were arguing during sommer holiday road trip and something snapped and he drove off the road towards a cliff.  The car got stuck and had be towed out.   Also he trampled his glasses out of anger after that and couldn’t see much after that. >
  
  Damn. Glad you survived.
  Also : "don't go on road trips with parents", noted. >
  
  Don't do it with kids either! When I was 16, my parents and I travelled around Spain with a rented car. I'm an awful navigator and tried to insist that we drove off a small cliff in an audi a3 because "Google maps says it's this way, so it must be this way!" >
  
  "It can't mean that! There's a cliff there!" >
  
  I know someone who went over a cliff on a motorbike and survived, he said that he blacked out as soon as he went over the edge, as if to say "ok nope." Ironically it was being relaxed that probably saved his life. >
  
  One of my friends got in a pretty bad accidental motorcycle crash and had to be hospitalized, nearly killed him. He has no memory of the actual event but the report said he took very specific evasive maneuvers right up to the actual collision. Basically, he was all there, actively trying to solve the problem. But after the event, his mind just decided to block out the 2 min prior as if to say “this is too traumatic and it will only protect you to not remember it” >
  
  I'm not scientist so I don't have the terms for that but I think its a well established brain trick. Bad memories and/or traumatic events tend to be forgotten way faster than the good ones. 
  Thank for being so smart brain 🧠 >
  
  Yes and no. The brain is trying to protect you/itself by locking away the traumatic memory, but that just means it doesn't get processed and filed away properly, but instead remains in a kind of limbo state and can cause all sorts of PTSD-type fuckery down the line. The only way to really put it to bed is to force the brain to process it through therapeutic techniques like EMDR. Fascinating stuff. >
  
  at least it's trying to help, i guess lol >
  
  This will be pretty open and shut with the black box and the 8+ cameras on a Tesla that will capture every angle >
  
  See mentioning Tesla to reference the cameras it has makes sense. Mentioning “Tesla driver” is just lazy af/click bait  writing. >
  
  I wonderhow they found out. I imagine his wife screaming to her saviors, "He tried to kill us!" >
  
  That, plus no skid marks on the road from trying to brake or turn away >
  
  The guy was also driving a blackbox on wheels. The car recorded cameras (8 external, I do not believe the internal one outputs to crash logs, could be wrong) and every input before the crash, it is going to be completely obvious to investigators what was happening when they look at those logs. >
  
  For real. Dash cam footage on this will be evidence at the trial. Wonder if he had the internal cam uncovered…could be great for safety folks to see performance of air bags in real world situation. >
  
  Imagine how traumatizing it would be to have to watch real footage of air bags inside these kinds of accidents. >
  
  You’d need trauma counselors like those people that moderate flagged YouTube videos. >
  
  As someone who grew up with a dad with anger issues/suicidal threats, aggressive driving with all of us in the car, this is really scary to think about. Really feeling for the kids and the mom going through this ordeal. >
  
  Spent his whole life in school to become a doctor, started a family, then decided to kill everyone (but they lived).
  What a coward and a waste of life. >
  
  Theres a phenomenon where doctors can be really emotionally immature/stunted.
  Once they hit the real world after 2 decades of school things can get weird. >
  
  I worked at a hotel for 6 years, and during the summer months our main revenue was conferences. Lots of doctors, lawyers, highly educated people coming for their company shindig. I learnt early on that most of these highly educated people had zero life skills, no common sense, no problem-solving ability and as you said were emotionally stunted. It almost felt like they had devolved through over specialization and the only thing keeping them from running into traffic was a someone else shouting 'look out you idiot!' >
  
  a friend of mine growing up had 2 practicing MD's for parents.  The parent that I considered extremely intelligent, witty, sarcastic, understood subtleties, excellent problem solver, was apparently bad at medicine and was eventually confined to  just doing administrative work.  The other parent, was dumb on all counts, could not drive a car to save their life, and would panic freeze at the slightest stresses or inconveniences, but apparently was excellent at medicine and their patients loved them.  go figure.... >
  
  Interesting, albeit anecdotal. But surely you can both be a good doctor and a functional competent adult and not being in the extreme. >
  
  Have you heard about hours during residency? There’s no making it out of that at full functionality. Especially after going through med school. >
  
  Family annhilators are gut-wrenching and depressing.
  Why do they have to be like this? Why does life, beautiful life, even innocent life, end simply by some dude having anger / vengeance problems?
  FUCK. >
  
  One of the prosecutors at Nuremberg came to the conclusion, after many interviews with Nazi war criminals, and seeing how ‘normal’ they all seemed despite their hideous crimes, that the source of evil is simply a lack of empathy. To see your fellow humans as nothing more than props to give their existence meaning, and who have no agency or inner life of their own. If people can be trained to do that, or by some psychological or biological quirk are incapable of it, then they can be just as vicious as any demon from Hell. >
  
  This is why artificial intelligence is scary to some. It doesn't have to be actively evil, it just has to not value you, and have the power to end your life if it means completing a task at a slightly more efficient rate >
  
  Interesting insight. >
  
  What a POS. His poor kids and wife. >
  
  I've seen three articles on this story and all of them put the fact that it was a Tesla front and center despite it seemingly not being relevant at all >
  
  Low key kind of a good ad for tesla, it saved everyone after a long, long plunge off a cliff.  But yeah, I see your point.  If it was any other car probably would not be in the title. >
  
  Yup. It's just an attempt to get attention. Pretty sick, considering the context. >
  
  An attempt to get attention on who's part? >
  
  The news media. Most articles these days are talking about Tesla auto pilot failing and crashing (while the driver isn’t paying attention when they should be). So putting Tesla in the title will get them more clicks. 
  I’m not a fan of Tesla, but this is definitely a win for them. >
  
  So my whole life it's always seemed to me that there is an ongoing low key thing to put any EV in the most negative light you can. >
  
  It started off as slander because of the oil industry paying them off. Now it’s just trendy to talk about EVs, regardless of if it’s good/bad. >
  
  Ya starting maybe 5 years ago there was a pro push from certain sectors, but I still see a dedicated stream of misinformation both in articles and comments. >
  
  That's just the political climate these days. After Trump was elected, it sent a message that you can say whatever the hell you want if you're angry (or act confident) enough about it and nobody can tell you you're wrong. >
  
  What kind of car seats did these kids have holy cow! >
  
  Wait. Did I read that this was the second attempt? >
  
  If you mean at the end, I think they mention another family quickly whom I'm assuming all died but it doesn't say >
  
  Fucking hell >
  
  Did I read this correctly, the father is being charged with "child endangerment" and not 'attempted murder' even though he intentionally drove over the cliff?!?!
  Edit: ok, the charges are 'attempted murder AND child abuse'. >
  
  if he manages to beat the attempted murder charge, at least they can make sure he never gets joint custody of his kids >
  
  Your honor, the whole driving the family off a 300 foot cliff thing wasn’t a true reflection of the person I am deep down. I love my kids now and definitely won’t try to kill them again. >
  
  Honestly, when I heard about this, it made me think of the Hart murders. Sad that I was correct in my thinking. >
  
  Whoa. That was unexpected. >
  
  Omg. Those poor babies. >
  
  $20 says the headline would not feature the word "Nissan" if the car was an Altima. >
  
  Correct, because the Altima is not self driving, so the person making the article wouldn't make the assumption that the self driving is what drove it off the cliff, because the reality of it being murder is a lot less obvious. >
  
  Early articles literally said the car was in self driving mode despite there being no evidence for that. >
  
  Can you point to an article that did that? All of the ones that I read yesterday said that the police did not believe that was case. I saw tons of speculation from the usual reddit moron brigade though. >
  
  It was the very first version of an article that happened immediately after the crash. They later updated the story and removed the false info, so the statement is gone now. Don't remember the specific site but I saw the same article before and after the change... >
  
  Fuck this guy. Rot in hell.