In the case of Tesla v. Xi'an female car owner for infringement of reputation rights in the "Shanghai Auto Show Incident", the court made a judgment last year, and Ms. Li in Xi'an was sentenced to apologize and compensate Tesla.
However, Tesla is not satisfied with the amount of compensation, Tesla claims that its claim is to compensate 5 million, but the judgment is only 2,000 yuan, and Tesla told the media that the incident caused huge losses to it, and the judicial evaluation agency assessed that Tesla's orders and goodwill losses are as high as hundreds of millions of yuan.
In March 2021, Ms. Li of Xi'an drove a Tesla into a traffic accident. In February 2021, Ms. Zhang's family in Henan Province also had a traffic accident when they drove an imported version of the Tesla Model 3. On April 19, 2021, Ms. Li from Xi'an and Ms. Zhang from Henan Province wore clothes with the words "brake failure" to "defend their rights" at Tesla's booth at the Shanghai Auto Show.
Both owners said they were involved in an accident while driving the Tesla they bought because of "brake failure."
In addition to these two accidents, there have been many allegations of brake failure in the past two years, including Tesla's Wenzhou accident, Beijing Airport's second high school accident, Sichuan Nanchong Tesla's "out of control" accident, Zhejiang Taizhou Tesla collision traffic police accident, etc. After that, public opinion questioned Tesla's brake problem wave after wave.
Some question Tesla's one-pedal mode, there is a risk of misoperation, there are also doubts about Tesla's brakes, ibooster system design problems, brakes are too hard to press, of course, there are also doubts about the owner's misoperation.
With the identification results of these accidents, all of which show that there is no problem with Tesla's brakes, it is difficult to see everyone's doubts about Tesla's brakes in the past two years. Is it Tesla's brake design that has been improved? Or is Tesla's brake problem itself unwarranted, and the problems are caused by the driver's misoperation?
In fact, I personally think that Tesla's several brake failures may be caused by domestic consumers' unaccustomed to new energy vehicles, coupled with Tesla's single-pedal mode. A few years ago, Tesla's models could only be driven in single-pedal mode, and Tesla also carried out a recall in 2023, for the reason for this recall, the recall announcement shows that the vehicles within the scope of this recall do not allow the driver to choose the energy recovery braking strategy, and the driver presses the accelerator pedal deeply for a long time, which may increase the risk of collision and have potential safety hazards.
Although Tesla has a brake pedal, but in the past few years, the default is a single pedal mode, simply put, the electric door is released is the brake, and the full release is the full brake, which can indeed reduce the fatigue of driving, because there is no need to switch back and forth between the electric valve and the brake pedal, and it can make better use of kinetic energy recovery and improve the battery life.
Accustomed to the one-pedal mode, it is indeed quite easy to use, over time, the brake pedal is basically not used, and it will not put the foot on the brake pedal, but the problem is that domestic drivers in the driving school are learning to accelerate the accelerator pedal and brake to slow down, most Chinese car owners are used to driving fuel vehicles, and have developed the habit of putting their feet on the brake pedal after stepping on the accelerator pedal for many years.
When encountering an emergency, many people subconsciously step on the pedal, and when driving a Tesla, you may be stepping on the electric door, which may be the reason for the frequent occurrence of Tesla's suspected brake failure incidents in the past few years. And with Tesla's recall, which allows consumers to choose the level of kinetic energy recovery, the brake failure problem has disappeared.
To put it bluntly, the single-pedal mode of new energy vehicles takes a certain amount of time to adapt, and it is precisely because domestic consumers do not adapt to the single-pedal mode that there is a "painful period" in the early stage, and Tesla's strategy is too aggressive, and I hope that similar accidents will not happen again in the future.