Tesla didn't brake again!
Recently, a Tesla owner broke the news on the Internet, saying that he was driving normally on the highway, and the vehicle suddenly and automatically accelerated to 170 km / h, resulting in a series of four vehicles.
At first, the owner's statement was "the car suddenly accelerated" and "then the brakes failed". But soon, Tesla's official response said: "After multi-party comparison and analysis, and the final communication and verification with the owner himself, the incident was caused by the driver stepping on the accelerator pedal, and has now assisted the owner in the vehicle insurance claim process with the approval of the owner." ”
There are already too many such "Rashomons" that happened on Tesla, and the young lord has long lost interest in paying attention, because they say different things to each other, whether it is a problem with the car or a mistake that people have made, no one can come up with a basis, and the pure "melon-eating" masses of young lords are unwilling to do it.
This time is different, the owner of the car sent the video of the incident to the Internet, and there are two perspectives before and after. After watching the video, the young owner can say very responsibly that the cause of this car accident is not the driver's "accidental acceleration pedal".
Why dare I say it so absolutely?
First of all, the accidental step on the accelerator pedal can only be a matter of a moment, when parking, the wrong step on the accelerator hit the wall or fell into the ditch, which is possible, but has been "mistakenly stepping" on the accelerator pedal at a high speed of 1 km, and in the middle also very perfectly avoided a white car, which is absolutely impossible!
Something like this is likely to have indeed been a mistake in stepping on the accelerator pedal.
The conclusion that Tesla "is caused by the driver stepping on the accelerator pedal", the owner also strongly denied it at first, she said: "As a 30-year (driving age) old driver, (how can) a distance of nearly a kilometer have been stepping on the accelerator? ”
A kilometer distance, even if it has always been 170km/h speed, it takes 21 seconds, in fact, the average speed of this 1 km "stall" is certainly not 170km/h, so it lasts longer, and no one will "mistakenly step" on the acceleration pedal for so long when they are conscious.
For the reaction time of normal humans, 1 second is already a long time, and it is impossible to continue to "misoperate" for more than 20 seconds.
Secondly, in the video, the accident vehicle has a clip of dodging the white car, which is a near-perfect avoidance, showing that the driver is not only skilled and accurate, but also unusually calm and calm at the time of the incident.
This avoidance action proves that the driver of the accident vehicle is not only a long driving age, but also has very good emergency response experience and ability. Such a person does not rule out that he will occasionally misoperate once, but it is absolutely impossible to continue to step on the accelerator pedal for more than 20 seconds.
Screenshot of the network video. The accident vehicle's maneuver of avoiding the white car was perfect.
Of course, what the real cause of the accident is, the young owner can not make a conclusion, but from the video, the driver accidentally stepped on the accelerator pedal can be ruled out; since it is not a human problem, then it can only be a problem with the car - this is also certain.
In fact, if it is indeed a "mistaken acceleration pedal", Tesla is easy to confirm, and there is no need to "communicate with the owner himself to verify", because Tesla has background data.
Light up the background data, the facts are easy to reveal to the world. However, there are so many questions from the media and so much public opinion, why is Tesla unwilling to use relevant background data to "prove its innocence"?
The incident has been on the "hot list" of today's headlines, but Tesla has been unwilling to disclose the background data related to the accident vehicle to prove its innocence.
Do you remember the female owner of the roof guard? That time, Tesla released the background related data at the time of the accident vehicle, although Tesla did some processing of the data, but these data still irrefutably proved that the female owner had been stepping on the brakes at the time of the incident, did not accidentally step on the accelerator pedal, which was a conclusive "brake failure". (Link: Tsinghua University automotive professional doctoral supervisor: Tesla's data sat on the "brake failure" | Stand and Talk)
With this "lesson from the past", Tesla estimates that it will not disclose the background data again; and the owner cannot come up with evidence to prove that he did not step on the accelerator pedal by mistake, since both sides cannot prove their innocence, then there is only one way to "communicate".
The owner of the car in question reluctantly admitted that she really could not come up with strong evidence that the brakes failed.
Why the owner finally "recognized" Tesla's statement and accepted the conclusion that "the incident was caused by the driver stepping on the accelerator pedal", the specific reason is not known to outsiders, but the expression of "final communication and verification with the owner himself" is quite interesting.
Because facts do not need to be communicated, what needs to be communicated cannot be facts, but can only be forgiveness or compromise. How Tesla and the owner of the car "communicated" this time, we can't assume, but the young lord wants to substitute for it -
If one day the qing lord's car suddenly brakes and fails, and the car crashes, fortunately, the person will be fine. At this time, the manufacturer told me that I had two options:
One is to admit that you have misoperated, then you can not only "assist in handling insurance claims", but also give some additional compensation; the second is not to admit to misoperation, then there is nothing to say, take the legal process.
Think that you really can't come up with strong evidence to prove that the brakes fail, look at the valuable car that almost crashed, and then think about the female owner of the roof to defend her rights, assess the various costs of fighting a lawsuit, calculate the gains and losses, and the young owner estimates that he has to choose one.
Text | Green Lord
(This article is the author's personal opinion only and does not represent the position of DearAuto.) )
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Mr. Li Guoyong of Guangdong Green Law Firm