This is why Americans drive big cars.
So when a hitman kills their target, it just looks like a regular occurrence.
this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2026
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A car accident is the USA's "falling out of window"
Driving in the USA is like standing too close to the window in Russia
Probably nothing, but reminds me of Michael Hastings who felt stalked by LAPD and died in single vehicle crash Probably nothing
How politically expedient.
The conditions of the car crash per the NYT:
Mr. Orta died in a fiery car crash at around 1 a.m. on Saturday when he lost control of the vehicle he was driving and struck a utility pole. The car caught on fire and Mr. Orta died before the three other people in the car, including a stepsister, were able to pull him out, Mr. Arriaga said. The crash over the weekend had no connection to the shooting last March.
According to a preliminary San Antonio police report, which did not name Mr. Orta, the person behind the wheel was driving “at a high rate of speed” when he attempted to exit the highway and lost control of the vehicle.
Mr. Arriaga got an alert on his phone about the crash and headed to the scene. When he arrived at around 1:30 a.m., he saw a charred vehicle and his injured daughter. “The three of them got out and they were trying to pull him out, but then it exploded,” Mr. Arriaga said.
Mr. Orta’s stepsister, who suffered several bruises and burns, remained at the hospital, Mr. Arriaga said.
but then it exploded
Ahh, they must've been playing GTA!
Cars don't explode like in movies
It's also a huge vulnerability that modern cars have internet connections and could easily trigger the immobilizer or drive it into a wall
There are only a handful of models that use a drive-by-wire system where an electronic attack would let you do something like that (Teslas and some models of Humvee are the only ones I know right off) - pretty much everything else still uses supplementary physical connections to prevent loss of control during a hardware failure. Loss of steering assist or activation of an immobilizer will cause your engine to shut down and your controls to be less responsive, but it does not cause you to lose control of a car and both have a long enough purely mechanical delay to allow you to safely stop the vehicle.
There's no way for a remote attacker to "drive your car into the wall" unless you're using one of those very rare models. Even cars with lane assist are designed so that -mechanically- they cannot override user input.
That begs the question: what were they driving?
I thought Tesla's were a little bit on the explody side of things.
The victim had a loving family with him, so it couldn't have been a Tesla
Firey, yes. Explodey? Not so much from what I've seen.
Yeah I think the issue is the fiery and all electric means you're locked inside with the fire...
At least the fire can't escape.
"I'm not locked in here with the fire... the fire is locked in here with ME."
I wasn't trying to imply that the nazimobiles were safe. Just that they are mostly dangerous to the Nazi supporters that buy them.
Oh this is crazier than I initially imagined. My first gut reaction was conspiracy. If it is then there's some collateral damage.
A driver of a blue Ford intentionally ran over a Homeland Security Investigation special agent resulting in him being on the hood of the vehicle.
Yeah that paragraph is unrelated to this kid's situation beyond pointing out how trigger happy ICE was in murdering his friend.
Oh you are right. This article is a mess. They didn't even name the driver that killed the guy.
They also didn't mention what kind of car was in the accident.
If I was ran over that means the tires were on my body.
Yeah but the headline! Run over sounds worse than struck.
Run... under?
Pedantry.
Semantics, actually.
Okay but this is ped... or no, it's sem...
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... well played.
I’m not going to lie this made me laugh full throated and I wasn’t even stoned. I needed that, thank you.
well done troll good sir.
...the way i figure it, if you take out at least two fascists before they put you down, it's a net positive for society...
accident
Maybe? Hopefully? I'm really, really hating that I have to question this. >.<
The other three in the car including his sister said nothing about anything suspicious, and they surely would have.
And if you believe that "someone is keeping them quiet", then all bets are off and nothing anyone says matters. :shrug:
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