The couple drove off a cliff and died, and the dashcam data disappeared?

Southern Metropolis Daily

2024-05-06 18:04Published on the official account of Guangdong Southern Metropolis Daily

Recently, he drove a Tesla down the mountain road with # husband and wife and unfortunately died ##特斯拉坠崖致夫妻身亡记录仪数据却没了#相关的词条上了热搜. Today, a reporter from Nandu Bay Finance Society inquired about this matter, but Tesla said that it had no more response for the time being, and is now paying attention to the accident, and everything is subject to police information at present, and will provide necessary support.

The incident happened three days before the May Day holiday, according to the victim's cousin, Mr. Tang, a couple surnamed Tao in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, who were driving a Tesla Model Y, had a serious traffic accident on their way home. At that time, the vehicle rushed off the road while driving on the winding mountain road, rolled over for more than 30 meters and stopped, which eventually led to the death of two people after rescue efforts failed, leaving two children behind.

The victim's family raised several suspicions: First, Mr. Tang's father-in-law learned from the traffic police that the vehicle's top speed reached 120 km/h at the time of the incident. The family wondered why the vehicle was moving so fast on the winding road.

The second is that there are no brake marks at the scene, but on the side of the road near the mountain, there are obvious scratch marks, indicating that the vehicle may have made contact with the mountain when trying to slow down or avoid. Mr. Tang said that from the scene, they speculated that his cousin may have tried to stop the vehicle in the form of scraping the hill at the time of the incident, and did not rush down until it was too late at the turn.

The third is that the data of the dash cam disappeared at the time of the accident, while the previous records were complete. Mr. Tang said, "It stands to reason that the dash cam of the vehicle in the driving state must be useful, even if the impact paralyzes it useless, the record of the moment of impact is always there, but now the police say that there is no direct none, how much people feel incredible, and have to have other bad ideas." ”

The victim's 14-year-old eldest son said that the accident vehicle had several problems before, including the summon function could not be used, the tires swinged irregularly, the car automatically accelerated when AP assisted driving was turned on, and the car would shake when parked.

The reporter of Nandu Bay Finance Agency asked Tesla about this matter, but the official said that there was no more response to this matter, and now it is paying attention to the accident, and everything is subject to police information at present, and necessary support will be provided. However, since the incident is mainly handled by the police, it is inconvenient for Tesla to interfere too much.

According to public information, Tesla's Model Y model's dashcam is a built-in function of the body, which records the driving situation through cameras around the vehicle. In order to use the dash cam, the car owner needs to prepare a properly formatted USB flash drive, plug into the vehicle's USB port, and the dash cam can start working.

The user manual posted on Tesla's official website states that all recorded videos will be saved on a local USB device and will not be transferred to Tesla's servers. In auto-recording mode, if the car detects a serious safety event such as a collision or airbag deployment, the dashcam will automatically save a video recording to a USB device. Car owners can view video footage recorded by the dashcam on the touch screen or computer.

However, Tesla also states on its official website that whether the dashcam will automatically save footage of serious safety incidents depends on several factors (such as the amount of force, whether the airbag is deployed, etc.). Don't rely on a dashcam to automatically record all serious safety incidents.

This is not the first time that a Tesla Model Y has been suspected of losing control and resulting in casualties. On the morning of November 5, 2022, a man drove a Tesla Model Y in Raoping County, Chaozhou City, Guangdong Province, when he was about to stop. The vehicle suddenly "ran wildly at high speed" and hit two motorcycles and two bicycles one after another, causing a vicious traffic accident in which 2 people were killed and 3 were injured. The incident has caused widespread discussion on the Internet.

On the afternoon of May 1, 2024, a runaway Tesla Model Y in Dayu County, Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province, collided with several cars in a row, which also attracted attention. The accident caused serious damage to a number of vehicles, injured a number of passers-by, and the driver and co-pilot passengers were also injured to varying degrees.

Reporter Hu Wenwen and intern Hao Peiqi

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