Recently, a Tesla owner broke the news in the car friend group, saying that his Tesla had an accident on the highway. The owner said that his Tesla automatically accelerated to 170 miles ("mile" or "mile", 1 mile = 1.6093 kilometers) at high speed without any warning, so he began to step on the brakes, but there was no reaction, and finally stopped after hitting four cars in a row, and the owner was glad that he had "picked up a life".
Judging from the driving video released by the owner, at the beginning, Model 3 was driving at the rightmost lane at normal speed, following the truck in front of it after changing to the middle lane, and then a tank 300 appeared in the leftmost lane, and then Model 3 also changed to the leftmost lane, but the Model 3's driving speed was particularly fast, directly hitting the tank 300, after the tank 300 was hit aside, the hood of the Model 3 was lifted and blindly opened for a long distance. Finally, after hitting multiple cars in a row, it stopped. Judging from the scene of the accident, the Model 3 was very badly damaged, the maintenance cost was high, and one of the Japanese cars that was hit was directly scrapped.
For the accident, Tesla responded that the owner was contacted for details at the first time on the day of the incident, through multi-party comparison and analysis, and communicated with the owner himself to verify that the incident was caused by the driver accidentally stepping on the accelerator pedal. Tesla said that it has assisted car owners in the vehicle insurance claim process with the approval of car owners. At the same time, Tesla also reminds drivers and friends that during the driving process, if they encounter unexpected situations, please stay calm and control the vehicle correctly.
In response to this accident, the veteran car blogger "Hanlu" expressed his opinion on Weibo: "This is a high probability that the accelerator has been stepped on, and the probability of the two fatal problems of brake failure and automatic acceleration at the same time is about equal to 0."
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