Tesla, as the leader in the field of new energy vehicles, gave a very eye-catching report card in 2021, even under the influence of the lack of core haze, Tesla has also achieved a total of 936,000 electric vehicles in the whole year, of which the Chinese market contributed a considerable part.
The reason why Tesla can stand out in the fierce competition, in addition to the technical gap, the safety of the product is also an important aspect. Tesla has strict safety design standards, and all of its models have passed the five-star crash safety rating test in the United States, and are confident of achieving the highest standards in the industry.
However, recently Tesla has fallen into a storm of allocation reduction, and many people have questioned the suspicion that Tess has the suspicion of foreign car companies entering the countryside and reducing the allocation, and has not done the same in terms of safety between various models and high and low versions in the domestic and foreign markets. It is reported that a domestic Tesla owner found that the Model 3 in the US market is equipped with knee airbags, but when he opened the cover under the main co-driver of the Tesla Model 3 produced by the Shanghai Super Factory, he sadly found that there was no shadow of the knee airbag in both parts, and although there was a plastic cover inside, there was actually no airbag installed.
In order to further confirm, the owner dialed Tesla's official customer service phone, but the other party said: knee airbags do not affect the safety of the whole vehicle, and in the time of the car accident, the role of knee airbags on the safety of the whole vehicle is not high, so the entire domestic series of Teslas are not.
The importance of airbags I am afraid I do not need to emphasize it, airbags are an indispensable passive safety protection device for a car, many consumers will first check whether the airbags are complete when buying a car, the current mainstream models are equipped with the main and secondary + front and rear side air curtains + front and rear head airbags.
It is reported that the knee airbag is usually configured under the dashboard, when encountering a collision accident, the airbag will automatically pop out, the purpose is to reduce the damage to the driver's legs, form a collision buffer area, but also help to alleviate the driver's chest and abdomen impact force.
If the knee airbag is really as Tesla customer service said, more chicken ribs, no effect, does not affect the safety of the whole vehicle, then why like Xuanyi, Leiling, Civic, Corolla, these Japanese A-class cars are equipped with knee airbags, saving production costs is not good? You must know that everyone is a big reducer.
So the root of the problem is that Tesla has exploited the loopholes in the system, Compared with the United States, the Chinese automotive industry started late, the rules and regulations are not sound, giving some car companies the opportunity to take advantage of, since you do not require configuration, why should I do more? Hey, save another stroke, but what a little elf ghost! Tesla claimed that the knee airbag was useless, and this matter was changed to the United States to try, which has a policy to mandate that the knee airbag must be equipped.
Write at the end
The knee airbag is only a small problem, but the corporate responsibility reflected is a big problem, Tesla's casualness in the Chinese market is thought-provoking, and the feeling is like "It's not impossible to pass, what kind of bicycle do you want?" "The Shanghai government has shown great sincerity in allowing Tesla to build an independent factory, however, Tesla obviously did not appreciate our good intentions, and the practice of double standards is like a toad lying on the surface of the foot - do not bite people, diaphragm should be people!"