Tesla is on the hot search again! Other manufacturers really can't learn!
Some car owners suspect that the Tesla they purchased (produced in Shanghai Gigafactory) is not equipped with knee airbags, so they started to remove the cover under the main co-driver, and found that they were indeed not equipped with knee airbags, and questioned Tesla's burning operation of reducing the allocation of domestic models.
The owner asked Tesla customer service about this question, and the other party responded: "The knee air bag does not affect the safety of the whole vehicle, and when an accident occurs, its safety effect on the whole vehicle is not high, and the entire domestic Tesla is not equipped." ”
We all know that airbags are important passive safety protection devices, many users will look at the number of airbags in the car when buying a vehicle, and the current mainstream models are equipped with the main and secondary + front and rear side air curtains + front and rear head airbags.
Japanese cars are more "generous" and even many A-class cars are equipped with knee airbags, such as Xuanyi, Corolla, Leiling, Civic, Sagitar and other cars are also equipped, and many B-class cars also have knee airbags, such as Maiteng, Passat, Camry and other models.
Of course, in addition to the domestic Tesla does not have knee airbags, the models sold in Europe also do not have this equipment, mainly because there is no mandatory requirement of policy standards, while the United States is mandatory to have knee airbags, so Tesla sold in the United States has this equipment.
Some people say that you don't require it on the standard, why should I install it?
Adapting to local conditions, following local customs, saving costs, this kind of thing is not only Tesla will do, ask other joint venture brands have not operated in this way, it is estimated that none of them are spared.
Tesla also brought out a study by the National Association for Highway Safety Insurance (IIHS), which said that knee airbags have limited effect.
2021 Tesla can be said to be a bumper harvest year, selling 313,400 vehicles in the United States, ranking second only to BMW in luxury brands, with a total of 936172 new cars sold worldwide, an increase of 87.4% year-on-year.