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In an event Elon Musk has called “Weird,” the Amazon cargo plane involved in a tragic crash on Sunday in Miami very nearly wiped out a parking lot full of Tesla Cybercabs. Last week, Tesla announced that Cybercabs, its gold-colored autonomous vehicles with no steering wheels or pedals, were now available to provide rides as part of the company’s app-based ride-hailing service, but only in a very limited coverage area in Austin, Texas. On Sunday, an Amazon Prime Air cargo plane at Miami International Airport experienced some kind of malfunction in the air just before touchdown, and ended up overshooting its runway. In a horrifying turn of events, it crashed into a cargo van carrying an airport cleaning crew, as well as an SUV just outside the airport. There were five fatalities. The plane skidded to a stop just shy of a parking lot where, for reasons unknown, Tesla Cybercabs were parked. Tesla started manufacturing them in April, naturally at its Gigafactory facility in Texas. The company has the capacity to build 125,000 Cybercabs per year. A particularly snarky Sherwood News headline described Cybercabs as “piling up,” apparently unused. Tesla-tracking social media accounts sometimes count the number of Cybercabs that accumulate in the Gigafactory’s Cybercab outbound lot at a time. They sometimes total more than 100. For the full story, tap our link in bio. Story: Mike Pearl #amazon #transportation #airplane #crash #tesla