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Recently, a car owner, Mr. Chen, reported that the car crashed and caught fire caused by the Model 3 highway out of control on the Internet, with the owner insisting that the Model 3 vehicle he was driving accelerated automatically and the brakes failed. In response to this matter, a repair contract of Tesla's sales and service store gave the preliminary investigation results of the accident vehicle.

According to the maintenance contract, after the background access to vehicle driving data and Tesla on-site investigation, the basic situation is as follows: 1. The system detected a few minutes before the accident, there is a signal to press the acceleration pedal, no brake pedal signal; 2. Survey the scene, the accident section did not see the brake marks; 3. The speed detected by the system at the time of the collision is 112 km. The system detects that when a collision occurs, there is a signal to press the acceleration pedal, but there is no signal to press the brake pedal.

This report is the preliminary test results of Tesla, but has not yet reached a final conclusion. Tesla official said: "We are actively cooperating with the relevant investigation departments, while submitting the relevant information to the police, waiting for the police conclusion." According to media reports, the Institute of Traffic Management Science of the Ministry of Public Security and the General Administration of quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine have sent people to Nanchang to investigate the accident.

In addition, at present, the Institute of Traffic Management Science of the Ministry of Public Security and the State Administration of Market Supervision have sent personnel to Nanchang to participate in the accident investigation.

Tesla Model 3 crashed and caught fire in Nanchang, Jiangxi province on June 16. The owner, Mr. Chen, said that before the accident, the car suddenly increased its speed to 127km/h while driving. He hit the brakes without any reaction. He dodged 40 or 50 cars all the way. After driving for about 8 kilometers, he finally hit a mound at the end of the road and caught fire.

It is understood that Mr. Chen's Model 3 was purchased in March 2019, when the landing price was close to 600000, and it traveled about 30, 000 kilometers before the accident. Mr. Chen said that usually running high speed is more, 127km/h is the maximum speed limit set by himself, and Tesla's auxiliary driving function was not used before the incident.

According to pictures recorded by other vehicles at that time, the blue Model 3 driven by Mr. Chen was driving at high speed on an ordinary road, far faster than other vehicles in the same direction, when Tesla Model 3 "illegally overtook the road" and nearly collided with the video vehicle, but fortunately, the video vehicle carried out an emergency avoidance operation.

Mr. Chen said that before the accident, the vehicle was in a normal state and the speed was about 50~60km/h, but then it suddenly increased the speed to 127km/h, and there was no reaction when he hit the brakes. During the period, he dodged about 40 to 50 cars and plugged in every crack. Mr. Chen, who claimed to be a veteran driver with more than 20 years of driving experience, finally ran all the way to the end of Ganjiang Avenue and hit a mound and overturned his car. He climbed out of the car and borrowed a passer-by's cell phone to call the police.

After the crash, the car caught fire and caused an explosion. The whole car has been covered by the fire, and the fire is mainly concentrated in the interior of the vehicle.

Fortunately, the owner of the car was not life-threatening in the accident. Mr. Chen said that at that time, the stomach was very painful, after examination that it was "abdominal trauma", there was a section of the small intestine amputated. According to Mr. Chen, the consultation fee amounts to 50,000 yuan.

After the accident, Tesla explained to the outside world, "the vehicle can record the relevant operation data of the owner. According to Tesla's vehicle design principle, the possibility of the vehicle with brake failure accelerating by itself is very small." It is suggested that we should wait for the conclusions made by the government departments based on the vehicle data before making a judgment. "

The owner of the car, Mr. Chen, finally said that if Tesla could not give a satisfactory statement in the end, he would protect his rights by legal means and sue Tesla at a later stage.

The occurrence of the accident is more "weird", so netizens also have different guesses. Some netizens are skeptical of the car owner's statement, saying that the car owner's statement is not credible. Some netizens believe that it is difficult to believe that a driver can drive as long as 8 kilometers with the throttle as a brake, and hope that the relevant departments will come up with the results of the investigation as soon as possible.

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