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  While most folks probably do experience that, most aren't family annihilators.
context: Probably immediately followed up with divorce papers >
  
  Seems reasonable after attempted murder. >
  
  Really? I think he deserves a second chance
  edit: /s >
  
  Your comment reminded me of those relationship posts where the OP is like “my guy is so amazing expect for this teeny tiny thing,” where the “one thing” ends up being a fondness for cruel and/or illegal things. >
  
  Or when the 'one thing' was addressed, but it turns out there where actually a lot of other things the 'tiny thing' was blocking. >
  
  "My husband is great, except one tiny thing: he's a terrible driver." >
  
  “One time when he was stressed, he tried to kill me, but otherwise he’s a keeper.” >
  
  Radiologist, living in a fancy suburb and driving a Tesla, two young kids, neighbors say they were a "beautiful, idyllic family, no indication of issues", wife apparently had no clue as well...and then he randomly decides to drive his family off a cliff. You can never really know WTF is going on in a person's head. Hope everyone (especially the kids) can get all the help they need to recover and move on. >
  
  Medicine is a high stress job and environment, suicide and mental health issues are higher than national averages. The money is great but the mental price tends to be high. Not justifying anything but I guess I’d more more surprised if a construction worker or something did it. >
  
  Construction workers actually have massively outsized rates of suicide, way higher than most jobs. Their harsh and unsupportive work culture leads to a lot of repressed mental health issues.
  I do understand the point you’re getting at though >
  
  Plus a lot of times you are just one project away from unemployment all the time. That house is finished. Will you be on the crew for the next one? Will there be a next one? >
  
  
  Two of the three counts against Patel come with domestic violence and great bodily injury enhancements, San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said during a news conference Monday.
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  “Miraculously though, the four-year-old came out with just some bruises, and that does not qualify for significant bodily injury,”
  
  Good for the kid and somehow also the would-be family killer. >
  
  Also nevermind the Tesla that managed to fall off a cliff, not explode, and not get anyone killed, whoever made that kid's carseat needs to be pushing this for the rest of the year. >
  
  That's a tough row to hoe. 
  On the one hand you can point to that incident for the car seat effectiveness. On the other, it's shown that your car seat was picked out by a would-be family killer. >
  
  Huh? Nobody should blame a car seat manufacturer because a psychopath chose to buy it once.
  Nobody’s like “don’t buy Cheerios, Jeffrey Dahmer loved them!” >
  
  I’m never buying cheerios again. >
  
  Dahmer was a candy man, you should be okay. >
  
  We all know his favorite snack was chopped dates. >
  
  Oh my god. >
  
  One of my first childhood memories is my dad yelling at my mom in the car and threatening to kill us all as we drove to the kindergarten orientation for my older sister. >
  
  What the hell? I hope you got away from that ass?!? >
  
  My parents divorced 10 years later. I’m an old man now so he’s probably dead by now.
  Also thank you to everyone that sympathized. It’s not something I think about, but this article reminded me of it. >
  
  You aren’t supposed to listen to the call of the void. 
  Thankfully the family is okay. >
  
  At least don't drag other people into the void with you. >
  
  In bird culture this is considered a dick move >
  
  Boy, that is crazy they survived that. Awkward for the father. I wonder what went through his mind when he realized everyone, including himself, were still alive? >
  
  He's going to have a lot of free time to think about it. >
  
  More family annihilations >
  
  Picks car with highest safety rating 
  👁️👄👁️ >
  
  I can't imagine the kinds of nightmares the survivors will have, reliving the moment when the car went over the edge. >
  
  When this first story came out I imagined new elements forged from the heat and intense pressure inside this guy’s chest realizing OH NO WE LIVED and knowing how screwed he was. Like Ohshitnium >
  
  How awkward to have been in the car after the attempt failed. Especially if he screamed something right before he drove them off the cliff. >
  
  Are we sure the steering wheel didnt come off? >
  
  Route 1. I drove that once. Set off my fear of height all the time. PCR was developed in the inventor’s head on the same highway. >
  
  Wow, I didn't know that part of history concerning polymerase chain reactions. DNA testing wouldn't be the same had the inventor not driven on that road . >
  
  I have seen the wreckage of other cars driving off the cliff that he did and it’s a miracle that everyone survived. It’s easily a 200-300ft drop on nearly vertical terrain. The other car I saw down at the bottom (2 years ago) certainly had no survivors. >
  
  News says it was 250 feet. >
  
  Now that we know the driver did it intentionally and the safety of the car kept them alive, it's interesting that the brand of car isn't making it into headlines anymore. >
  
  No it's not. Half the articles after the initial one didn't say Tesla anymore, we all knew which story they meant when they talked about the man who drove his family over a cliff in cali and they all survived. Find a hobby, dude. >
  
  This is the first article I’ve seen that didn’t specify Tesla in the title. If there were others, well I hadn’t come across them. Don’t know what to tell you other than I don’t attempt to memorize article headlines because I do actually have many hobbies. >
  
  Damn, have a bit less an obvious hard on there, dude. 
  Memorise article headlines? No, no, I just used this thing called "basic recall" to "remember" how often I see people making this claim, and "remember" that you're not the first tin foil sherlock out there to think this is the first time they didn't say "Tesla". 
  I dont need to spend all day on reddit to remember things thay I experienced, but go on >
  
  If I don’t come across other headlines I don’t know you can expect me to recall them. The only ones I saw specified the car manufacturer, until this one. >
  
  This sounds like the beginning of a thriller movie. >
  
  You mean the end, the END of a thriller movie. >
  
  Thriller movies often open dramatically on the ending scene then recount what happened before that opening scene. >
  
  Imagine being such a miserable failure that you try to kill your family only to learn you can’t even do that right.  What a fucking loser. >
  
  I think I heard about this guy on a podcast recently. He was driving a Tesla and expected it to explode like a gas powered car. Instead it just got stuck on some trees. I could be wrong. >
  
  Cars rarely explode from impacts. Can they yes. But it’s still rare >
  
  Right, but a lot of people believe what they see in the movies. A leaf lands on a car, and it explodes like Hiroshima. >
  
  Depends on who's driving the car. If it's the protagonist then they're built like tanks. >
  
  To be fair, he’s been threatening to do that for years if those damn kids wouldn’t stop fighting in the back … >
  
  No, we don't all think about trying to kill our families