Tesla CEO Elon Musk e-mailed a grieving father over seven weeks. Picture: MAJA HITIJ/GETTY IMAGES
Barrett Riley was at the wheel of his father’s Tesla Model S on May 8 2018 when he lost control at 186km/h and crashed into a concrete wall of a house in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The car was engulfed in flames. Riley and his friend sitting in the passenger seat were both killed. “I understand,” Musk responded. “My firstborn son died in my arms. I felt his last heartbeat,” he wrote, referring to his son Nevada Alexander Musk who died when he was 10 weeks old.
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