Billionaire Angela Chao Tragedy and Tesla Controversy

Is life becoming possibly a little too complicated even for the rich and the famous because there's some recent tragedies that kind of point to something, you know, if you follow the media, it feels that way. R.I.P. to Angela Chow, a billionaire, an heiress to a gigantic expediting shipping fortune, the sister of Elaine Chow, who is the wife of Mitch McConnell. Long story short, she was driving her Tesla on her Texas compound, mistaken the gearbox, basically the forward for the reverse, backed into her own pond and ended up drowning tragically. And a lot of people are asking, is life just becoming too complicated? Because recently there have been some really high profile deaths of people who even come from families that are billionaires, essentially. And yeah, I just think that it's something that's sparking a lot of discussion right now, obviously, both on the physical side and people are actually questioning, questioning if Teslas are too complicated to navigate. But then a lot of people are saying, man, is this just life in general in twenty twenty four? So anyway, guys, we're going to get into it, Andrew. Yeah, I think a lot of people are just saying, you know, these high profile billionaire deaths. They sort of highlight something that everybody might be going through, but just it only gets highlighted when it's a certain segment of the population. Yeah, I mean, you're going to hear about when someone rich and powerful and famous passes away, no matter how bad it is or how tragically or I guess how much people expect it. But obviously, unexpectedly, it's going to it's going to make news, because I think that even as a regular person who's not rich and famous, you're going to be like, whoa, I thought like rich and famous people like that kind of stuff didn't happen. Right. For example, what happened? The tragic death of Susan Wojcicki's son. You almost think that that's just like, oh, that happened to a dude at my high school, but not the billionaires. Yeah, I mean, even Kobe's death. Right. They're flying in a helicopter. Oh, rich and famous. But but he thinks that he's going to go through a foggy day and then something terrible happens, obviously. Um, obviously, like if you look at the details of Angela Chao and the reason why we're talking about her is, you know, not just because she's Asian, but she is involved in the Asian community on some, you know, internal level. But I guess there was like a lot of different factors that came into play. It was probably the evening time. I heard she had had some drinks. She was celebrating something. Even her friends try to come out and save her. But but none of them were prepared. They couldn't help her. You know what I mean? So it was just a whole perfect storm of elements that would lead to something that almost like it seems crazy to like drowning your car in your backyard. Yeah. Yeah. And it's crazy that it's like because there was a lot of arguing. There's still a lot of arguing right now of whether you blame the car or you blame the driver. Or are we as citizens, Andrew, more responsible for navigating a more complicated world? Right. And then the question is, yeah, are there too many buttons, too many panels on a Tesla or one of these new cars? Like I've hopped in these new cars in Ubers. Right. I don't own a car right now myself. But when you jump in, they got basically like a gigantic iPad that you're you're handling. Like, is that better or worse? Well, would you agree, Andrew, that for a boomer, they might not even be able to figure out how the door handle on a Tesla works? Dude, even for a Gen X, for a millennial, guys, anybody like there's a lot of buttons, you know, and and do we need to go back to a more simplified world? That's my question, I guess. Are things at some point better? Because like our brains as humans, our brains are not any better than they were 300 years ago, essentially. I obviously the things around us are better, but like things are so much more complicated than the creatures of habit or something like that. Yeah. The world is so much more complicated than it was 300 years ago. Can our brains even handle it? Well, for example, on old school cars, I want to say for like decades and decades and decades. Usually when you're going to put the car in a drive, you put it back almost like a throttle on like a fighter jet. Right. When you're trying to accelerate. But nowadays on some of the EVs or something like that, you just tap back on the screen to indicate you want the car to go back. Right. And maybe there's a learning curve with that because, you know, the next generation is not going to have a problem hitting buttons. But, you know, for now, a lot of people who grew up with the with the e-brake where you just pull it and you hear that thing crank, then you're like, oh, it's safe. This car's not moving. Right. The car was physically you. You were physically pulling the brake of the car into like lockup status. Obviously, Andrew, this is not the only case of this famous actor. Anton Yelchin was crushed RIP to him by his own Jeep Grand Cherokee, because when he put it in the park, the gear would slide back into a position where it was unclear if it was parked or not. Oh, wow. Yeah. And there was a gigantic lawsuit about that. They had to like change it up or like do a firmware update. Yeah, I do think I'll say this when it comes to and we're going to get into society later. But when it comes to the cars, there might need to be more standardization on how the instrument panels work, because on one car, it could be a cruise control button. And then on another car, that could be the park button. So nothing is standardized. There is that it causes confusion. There's a learning curve. People got to process new things. Right there. Push the button. Start. Andrew, the BMWs, sometimes it was like kind of hard to tell on, you know, on a BMW if you turned it off or not, if you had the push button start. Yeah, sometimes like especially if it was a hybrid, like the engine is so quiet, you can't even tell if it's on or off until you get out of the car. And then you realize, oh, this thing's still on. What is it doing on? What is the responsibility of people to learn their new cars? Or are people more like, you know, how everybody's there's there's like a 10 page manual that comes with anything you order from Amazon anymore. But I don't think the propensity for the average citizen to read that 10 page manual has gone up. Yeah, I do think that people are underestimating how complicated things are. And they figure, hey, I got this nice car. I know how to use it, but it's not intuitive. It's not built into you yet. You know, so yeah, I mean, if you haven't been driving Teslas for years, you're about to maybe make a mistake. Right, right, right. I guess the three point turns using a touch screen because a three point turn, Andrew, you're always you're going back, you're going forth, you're going back, you're going forth. It's like you need to, you know, just use the touch screen. You need to be really well versed to make it especially in the dark. You know, it's just not going to have the same intuitiveness that you develop from your previous vehicles. Ultimately, man, one thing I learned is that a lot of people from these like tragic incidents and they go so viral, there's a lot of different factors involved. Like you said, when it's like anytime there's a tragedy, oftentimes it's not always, but there's usually like a stack of events that happened, you know, in a row. Like, for example, I remember there was these kids that we knew, not that we knew, but like we knew of them. And this is back in L.A. And they would always go have a few drinks at this bar, a few towns over, and they would drive back. And it was just along the 10 freeway. It's really easy. It's really flat. You can't really like it's just a straight line. But they were doing work on the 10. So they had to take a detour through a completely different highway. And they got rerouted through like an overpass. And I remember the kids had a few drinks and they fell over the overpass. And that led to, I mean, obviously, R.I.P. Not all of them survived. But I'm saying that it's this storm of like, first of all, you shouldn't be drinking and driving. Right. But then had the 10 freeway that they always had ridden on for like 10 years been exactly the same. Then but there was like an additional wrench thrown in there. Yeah. So I guess what I'm saying is things they just stack in complexity. But I think in modern day life in 2024, there's more ways to stack complexity, even like your car's instrumentation panel. Yeah. And also people get comfortable nearby home. I mean, that's when most accidents happen. You feel comfortable. You're like goes in off or you're like, yeah, you're letting your guard down. I know these streets, you know, and also you've had some drinks. Very, very common for people, man. Yeah. So anyway, guys, let us know what you think in the comments section below. I think that, you know, this debate over Tesla's instrumentation panel about the gear shift, you know, touch screen versus, you know, physical stocks. It's just an interesting debate. But you could argue that this goes for a lot of areas of society, especially as we go forward with technology, guys. R.I.P to Angela Chao. And of course, everybody who dies in these styles of tragedies. But of course, it's much higher profile when it is somebody, you know, of that stature. 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