On November 5, a Tesla Y, launched at high speed, slalomed to avoid obstacles.
Behind her, wisps of thick dust testify to the extreme speed that the vehicle is reaching on a busy road.
The driver manages to narrowly avoid a moped, before hitting a cyclist, and another vehicle in the middle of a busy road in Guangdong province, China.
Two people died and three others were injured during this crazy race.
The driver of the vehicle will finish his ride by colliding head-on with a building.
Several surveillance cameras make it possible to trace the course of these two kilometers of swerving.
The 55-year-old driver claims to have lost control of his car, citing problems with the brake pedal after trying to park in front of a business.
A version that Tesla denies, as usual.
The brand invokes failures of the driver, who would have confused accelerator and brake pedals.
The American company ensures that the data collected does not make it possible to point to technical failures of its vehicle.
This isn't the first time Tesla has come across these wild ride images.
The brand points to driver failures rather than its electric cars.
A statement published on a blog in January 2020 already went in this direction: “In each situation where we were able to recover data from the vehicle, we can confirm that the car responded as expected”.
“In other words, the car accelerates if, and only if, the driver tells it to.
And it slows down or stops when the person presses the brake”.
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In Paris, on December 11, 2021, a similar tragedy caused the death of a cyclist and injured twenty people.
A Tesla had dark in the middle of an artery limited to 30 km / h, in the 13th arrondissement, before colliding against a glass container.
Questioned by Le Parisien, the taxi driver at the wheel of the vehicle had assured that he had lost control of his car.
“I pump with one foot on the brake, but it doesn't work.
My wife said to me: But why are you going so fast?
I answer him that it is blocked “, then described this fifty-year-old.
After this new drama, Tesla assured to call on an independent expertise to support the Chinese police and to highlight the causes of this mad race.
