Las Vegas Police report Cybertruck contained gas canisters and mortar-type fireworks in bed of truck

[Dennis Donovan]

They know ID of deceased driver but not releasing it yet.

On MSNBC now...

Reporter asks if related to Trump and Musk...

On edit:

Link to tweet

[mobeau69]

1. Crazy stuff.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

25. indeed... all on one day

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

2. LOL, I doubt we see anymore Cybertrucks in Trumps motorcade after today!

[Maru Kitteh]

9. LOLZ! He's going to be scared of Cybertrucks now. This is EXCELLENT

[allegorical oracle]

3. Strange. Gas and fireworks, don't yet know ignition source, rented from same

rental company as NOLA truck. Both events seem like statement events...and the driver was OK with suicide, although the Las Vegas police chief did say the car locked up from the explosion.

[scipan]

5. Any guess as to the reasoning for locking its doors because of an explosion?

I can't think of any ATM. Seems like the opposite should happen if anything.

[LeftInTX]

10. It has something to do with the design. Probably the weird shape of the thing cause the blast to stay more "inward" than

"outward". Less outward shrapnel than with a regular vehicle. It's probably why they can't determine the sex of the person. They were burned beyond recognition. Most images show doors flying open and many times the occupants are partially ejected.

&ab_channel=CBSNewYork

[scipan]

17. Oh thanks it makes sense to contain a blast. Still,

I could have nightmares thinking about being in a car like that and not being able to escape...

[Celerity]

15. Unlike traditional car-rental services, Turo does not own or maintain any cars. The company offers a platform on which

car owners and car-renting companies can rent their cars.

Same concept as Airbnb, just for vehicles, not properties.

[WarGamer]

4. there goes the "must have been an accident" meme.

Everyone dumps gasoline and lighter fluid on their fireworks.

[MichMan]

7. Along with "It was the battery" n/t

[RockRaven]

8. Gas, camp fuel, fireworks and a Cybertruck are also congruent with

a dangerous dipshit headed out to the desert for some New Years knuckleheadry. Once they release the name/bio/affiliations of the dead driver, the accident/misadventure can be more thoroughly put to rest.

[wnylib]

21. Gas in a pressurized container

could turn out to be an accident. Pressurized gas containers sometimes do explode.

[LeftInTX]

11. It's best to wait for info. I knew they were looking into it, so I didn't want to jump to any conclusion either way.

[obamanut2012]

13. It can absolutely be an accident

[Bluethroughu]

6. Don't they have cameras and tracking???

Easy catch, if they really wanted to know who did it.

[LeftInTX]

12. They have a name. They need to contact and verify next of kin.

I know it's slow......

They know it was rented in Colorado. It was rented via an app and not a car rental. Peer-to-peer rental. So, I wonder if you can not give someone your real name when you rent from an app?

[Quiet Em]

14. For some reason they have not been able to remove his body from the Tesla

They can't positively identify him until they retrieve his body from the truck.

[Bluethroughu]

16. I'm talking about Tesla cameras to the cloud...

It tracks the car to the cloud. It records everything around the car.

[scipan]

18. FWIW, I just read on xitter that they tracked it from CO

and somehow used Tesla charging stations along the way.

So, obviously they could and probably have looked for who the car is registered to in CO.

[Bluethroughu]

19. It's in starlink. It has that capability with all the makers subscribed.

[wnylib]

20. If presurized gas was stored in the back of the truck,

is it possible that the sun bearing down on the car raised the heat in the storage area causing the pressurized gas container to explode? Even on cool days, the steady heat of the sun can cause enclosed spaces to get hot.

I have a can of hair spray, for example, which says in the warning section, among other things, "Contents under pressure. Do not store at temperatures above 120°."

Regarding identification of the person in the car, wouldn't the paper trail from the rental give a clue? Not a definitive ID, but a starting point.

[Union Label]

22. It was only in the 60's today in Vegas

So I have to say it was no where hot enought for that.

[wnylib]

23. Yeah, I checked the Las Vegas weather and edited my post.

But, even at a cool 60° the enclosed interior of a car or its storage area can get hot if the sun is steadily on it.

Or, perhaps more likely than overheating, the pressurized canister failed for some other reason. It happens. There is a post upthread with a video news report on a car in NY that exploded into flames because pressurized gas containers in it failed.

[LeftInTX]

24. Cybertruck guy - former Green Beret.

Multiple sources confirm 37yo Matthew Livelsberger from Colorado Springs was the driver of Cybertruck that exploded outside Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas.

https://gazette.com/news/sources-confirm-to-news5-driver-of-the-cybertruck-in-las-vegas-explosion-lived-in-colorado/article_788f3e33-8582-52c5-a140-7f80035f26b4.html

https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-livelsberger-514ab383/

Link to tweet

It's possible that he's still in army?? Says he currently works on drones.

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