I’m not a basketball fan, so while it’s a very sad for his family, I’m having trouble getting worked up about it. But judging by what I was hearing on talk radio while running errands, LA is gutted.
Sounds like it was controlled flight into terrain in IFR conditions. It’s been a cloudy/foggy day. That area has a lot of steep hillsides that can come up at you quickly if visibility is bad. Apparently he’d been using choppers for commuting for years, and it finally caught up with him.
I rode a Tesla for the first time a couple weeks ago, and the silence was eerie. They really do need some kind of sound effect. I wonder if its horn is a real horn, or a speaker with a synthesized horn sound? If the latter, seems like it already has the hardware to update the software to make sounds at low speeds. It could be like selecting a ringtone.