“It’s just a horror story. Tesla knows that it’s happened and that it’s going to happen, and they are doing nothing but selling the car with a system that entraps people and doesn’t provide a way of extraction.” Tsukahara’s family attorney, Roger Dreyer, told the San Francisco Chronicle, per the New York Post. “The design of this vehicle failed Krysta. There was no functioning, accessible manual override or emergency release for her to escape. Her death was preventable.”

‘Machine that’s not safe’

In a statement shared with Fox Digital news, Krysta’s father, Carl said of his daughter: “Krysta was a bright, kind, and accomplished young woman with her whole life ahead of her.”

“We’ve had to endure not only the loss of our daughter, but the silence surrounding how this happened and why she couldn’t get out. This company is worth a trillion dollars – how can you release a machine that’s not safe in so many ways?”

Meanwhile, the lawsuit filed by Nelson’s parents said: “Rear passengers like Jack were left with only a concealed mechanical release that was obscure, nonintuitive and highly unlikely to be located or operated in the smoke and chaos of a post-crash fire.”

Both wrongful death lawsuits are seeking punitive damages from Tesla, accusing the company of knowingly selling a vehicle with fatal design flaws.