Produced by | Tiger sniff car group
Author | Zhang Bowen
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The Tesla brake door thing has made new progress.
On August 12, 2020, Mr. Chen, the owner of Wenzhou, said that at a distance of about 100 meters from the parking lot, his Tesla accelerated out of control, and the brakes did not work, hitting more than a dozen cars before stopping.
Subsequently, Tesla cooperated with law enforcement departments and the identification agency to obtain the driving data recorded on the "black box" of the vehicle by retrieving the vehicle EDR data and decrypting it. By comparing Tesla's cloud background data with the vehicle's EDR data, the result given by the identification is that the owner accidentally stepped on the pedal and caused the vehicle to have an accident.
Today, Mr. Chen, a party to the Tesla Wenzhou incident, posted a public apology letter on his certified Weibo account.
There are several key pieces of information inside:
1/ On the night of the accident, I drove home on the road inside the community and suddenly found that someone appeared in front of me, wanted to step on the brake, but stepped on the wrong one, put the throttle as the brake, the vehicle rushed into the parking lot, collided with the parking lot road gate, parked multiple vehicles, isolation rail, etc.
2/ After the accident, although I knew that I had stepped on the accelerator as a brake, I was unwilling and began to fabricate the content in August.
3/ In the above-mentioned acts, other self-proclaimed "rights protection" car owners also came to contact me. Mr. Feng, the owner of the Shanghai car, took the initiative to contact me and introduced me to a certain platform, the platform arranged a lawyer for me, all the fees of the first-instance lawyer were paid by this platform, and I myself did not pay any of the first-instance lawyers' fees. Ms. Henan Car Advocate and Tianjin car owner Mr. Han also contacted me. I also joined the group of activist car owners, but later I quit the group because of different ideas. After the judgment was rendered, Ms. Henan Che asked me to write a joint petition class action with other car owners, but I refused.
The full text of the apology letter is as above, simply summarized: I did step on the wrong step, I deliberately created rumors, and there was support behind it.
There are several key people here: Mr. Feng and platform in Shanghai, Ms. Zhang in Henan, and Mr. Han, the owner of tianjin.
According to the exclusive information received by Tiger Sniff, it supports Mr. Chen's lawsuit against Tesla and arranges a lawyer's platform for Mr. Chen, which is just an ordinary lawyer platform, but this lawyer platform often contributes to "supporting the rights protection of Tesla car owners", not only arranging lawyers, but also taking the initiative to pay litigation fees, participating in several Tesla owner rights protection cases, but the investors behind this lawyer platform have not been exposed.
Ms. Zhang of Henan in Mr. Chen's apology letter of Wenzhou is actually a member of the Tesla roof rights protection team at the 2021 Shanghai Auto Show.
The story of Ms. Zhang in Henan is like this:
At about 18:00 on February 21, the owner's father, Mr. Zhang, collided with another vehicle while driving along national highway 341. On the evening of the same day, the traffic police issued a letter of responsibility for the accident: It was determined that Mr. Zhang violated the provisions of relevant laws on safe driving and maintaining a safe distance from the car in front of him, and should bear full responsibility for the accident. In response to this accident caused by illegal driving, we expressed our willingness to assist Ms. Zhang in completing vehicle maintenance and insurance claims, but ms. Zhang strongly refused.
On March 6, Ms. Zhang put a seal on the whole car to refuse any form of vehicle testing, and made demands for returning the car, as well as compensation for mental losses, medical expenses, and lost work expenses.
On the morning of March 9, the Zhengzhou New District Market Supervision and Administration Bureau invited Tesla and Ms. Zhang to mediate, and finally Ms. Zhang agreed to choose a third-party testing technology agency to negotiate the appraisal matter and sign the mediation statement.
On the afternoon of March 9, Ms. Zhang repented and once again blocked the accident car with the seal back to the Tesla store, and clearly told the Tesla staff that she would not accept, would not recognize any third-party test results, nor would she accept any mediation, and continued to defend her rights by sitting on the roof of the car and playing the recording on a loop with a horn.
For Ms. Zhang to question the failure of the brakes, after the review and analysis of the vehicle data and on-site photos, Tesla found that the speed of the vehicle before pressing the brake pedal was 118.5km/h, the ABS worked normally during braking, the front impact warning and automatic emergency braking function started and played a role, and the vehicle braking system was not abnormal.
But Ms. Zhang is obviously not satisfied with the results of this appraisal, and has repeatedly claimed that the appraisal agency "China Quality Certification Center" given by the Municipal Supervision Bureau is not credible, and it is possible to have "cattiness" with Tesla, so compared to finding her own satisfactory testing agency to make things public, Ms. Zhang chose to form a partnership with Ms. Li and make a fuss to the end.
Image from, Sina Weibo
And Wenzhou car owner Mr. Chen in the apology letter of The Tianjin car owner Mr. Han, is also one of the Tesla rights protection owners, and is also an active member of the rights protection owners, before there was an exposed WeChat dialogue, Mr. Han was giving two ladies a trick, making trouble to protect the rights.
Mr. Feng, Ms. Zhang, Ms. Li, Mr. Chen, Mr. Han, several rights defenders who are good at mobilizing the emotions of Internet users, have jointly shaped the label and concept of "Tesla brake failure" in network public opinion, although more than a year has passed, and now anything about Tesla on the Internet, the comment area will also sporadically appear Tesla brake failure comments.
Spread rumors with a mouth, refute rumors and run off legs.
Tesla's storm, in fact, has long been not the meaning of the owner's "rights protection", which is mixed with too many various positions first, interests, rubbing traffic and other groups of participation, which means their own experience.
But the most crucial thing in the whole incident is who is supporting the owners to defend their rights, or a mystery.