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Tesla says it will assist police probe into fatal crash in China

U.S. automaker Tesla said on Sunday it will assist Chinese police investigating a crash involving one of its Model Y cars after local media reports said two people had died and three were injured when the driver lost control of the vehicle.

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BEIJING, Nov 13 (Reuters) - U.S. automaker Tesla (TSLA.O) said on Sunday it will assist Chinese police investigating a crash involving one of its Model Y cars after local media reports said two people had died and three were injured when the driver lost control of the vehicle.

The incident on Nov. 5 in the southern province of Guangdong killed a motorcyclist and a high school girl, Jimu News reported, posting a video of a car driving at high speed crashing into other vehicles and a cyclist.

"Police are currently seeking a third party appraisal agency to identify the truth behind this accident and we will actively provide any necessary assistance," Elon Musk's electric vehicle maker told Reuters in a message on Sunday, cautioning against believing "rumours".

China is Tesla's second-largest market, and the crash was among the top trending topics on the Weibo social media platform on Sunday.

Jimu News quoted traffic police as saying the cause of the incident in Chaozhou city had not been identified and an unnamed family member of the driver who said the 55-year-old had issues with the brake pedal when he was about to pull over in front of his family store.

Tesla said videos showed that the car's brake lights were not on when the car was speeding and that its data showed issues such as there being no action to step on the brakes throughout the vehicle's journey.

Calls to police in Raoping, the county where the accident happened, went unanswered on Sunday.

Tesla has faced claims of brake failure in China before.

In its statement to Reuters, the company said a Chinese car owner had been ordered by a court to publicly apologise and compensate the firm after it ruled that comments he had made to the media about issues with his brakes were inconsistent with the facts and had harmed Tesla's reputation.

Reuters could not immediately verify Tesla's assertion.

Last year, an unhappy customer caused a social media stir by clambering atop a Tesla at the Shanghai auto show to protest the company's handling of her complaints about malfunctioning brakes involved with a car accident.

In that instance, Tesla said speeding violations were behind her crash but promised to improve how it addressed customer complaints.

 

[Pixy]

I had to do a double-take when watching the video, thinking it was an edit by OP but no, the original video is set to a rather inappropriate choice of music. If TikTok/Douyin is going to replace liveleaks, I'm all for it.

Who's to say it wasn't Chinese glowies testing out how they could stage 'motor vehicle accidents'? CIA's pulled it off with a Mercedes already, also a speeding crash.

 

[kcbbq]

Why wouldn't hitting the break pedal immediately cause a disconnect of power to the motors? Its a fucking electrical car, you just hit the breaks and it should flip a switch disconnecting power to the motors. Especially with the accelerator not being pressed.

No, because an electric car uses the motors like generators to provide extra braking power and to collect some of the energy that would otherwise be turned into heat. You can stop even harder than with just the mechanical brakes. The normal brakes on a Tesla are made by Brembo and are pretty high quality.

There is nowhere near enough information to put the fault on the car yet, especially considering how notorious Asian drivers are for their, umm, driving skill.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

I'm looking forward to the future self-driving car stampedes. One car gets spooked by a plastic bag blowing around in the street, it tries to stop or swerve, this spooks the other cars which spooks the original car even more and suddenly they're all going full speed down the street and no individual car can stop without causing a massive pileup.

 

[Breadbassket]

I'm looking forward to the future self-driving car stampedes. One car gets spooked by a plastic bag blowing around in the street, it tries to stop or swerve, this spooks the other cars which spooks the original car even more and suddenly they're all going full speed down the street and no individual car can stop without causing a massive pileup.

Autumn will become the car pileup season of the year. Autonomous driving cars will fear the leaves blowing in the breeze.