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Recently, a video of Tesla trying to drive into a truck went viral on the Internet, causing serious damage to the vehicle, causing heated discussion after customers said that the auto-driving function of the car used by the salesman had an "accidental failure". At present, Tesla has not made any relevant response on this matter.

"the first day of the opening of Tesla Linyi Center," said one Weibo user on December 3. I went for a test drive, and as a result, the salesman was explaining the 'auxiliary driving function'. There was a truck turning around in front of him. He said that he would slow down later. As a result. as one can imagine. When the little brother intervened, it was too late to brake. Fortunately, I was wearing my seat belt at that time. "

According to the video released, the front and left side of the Tesla test drive were seriously damaged, the front face was sunken in the center, the cover was raised, and the headlights were also damaged. On the left side of the test drive, it was also rubbed vigorously by the truck anti-collision guardrail, resulting in damage to the rearview mirror, door and window glass.

Mr. Jiang, the customer of the test drive, said in a media interview that the accident was caused by the failure of auxiliary driving function when driving Tesla together with the salesman, and occurred during the demonstration of the salesman in the first lap of the test drive. "when the sales introduced Tesla's auxiliary driving function, there was a truck making a U-turn in front of it. The sales said the vehicle would slow down automatically, but it didn't slow down. The sales intervened themselves, but it was already too late to hit the brakes, and the braking distance was not enough at all, "says Mr. Jiang.

Tesla Linyi experience Center also confirmed the existence of test driving accident. It is worth noting that the service center is Tesla's first direct store in Linyi, and it only opened on the first day of the test drive accident.

According to Tesla, all Model 3 vehicles are equipped with basic driving assistance functions, such as emergency braking, collision warning and blind spot monitoring, which can automatically assist steering, acceleration and braking according to other vehicles and pedestrians in the driveway.

Tesla has not made a response to the accident in which the salesperson was accused of using the auxiliary driving function but the system "malfunctioned" in the test drive.

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