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Since the Tesla brand experienced continuous price cuts in the domestic market, the market performance has continued to improve, and CCTV has previously reported that its phone calls for price reduction orders have been hit. At the same time, there is also frequent news that Tesla is "out of control". Tesla has responded to his recent news that he is "out of control", and this response is the same as before, Tesla still said: "nothing unusual."

A Tesla suddenly ran out of control and rushed into the toilet at Taisheng Square in Linyi, Shandong Province, eventually crashing the sink before stopping the vehicle, according to media reports. According to the driver's unilateral description, the cause of the accident was that the vehicle was out of control, saying that the vehicle was unable to step on the brakes at that time. After the accident, Tesla also automatically cleaned up the driving records at the time of the crash.

As can be seen from the video, a black Tesla Model 3 is parked at the sink next to the toilet. The damage to the vehicle is not serious, except that the sink was damaged and there was no obvious accident. It can be speculated that the speed was not too fast at that time. What can also be seen from the video is that the parking space is on the side.

After investigation, @ Tesla customer support forwarded Weibo in the early morning of January 6, saying that after the analysis of the data and the scene, the driver of the vehicle suddenly swerved sharply while driving and stepped on the brake pedal, due to stagnant water on the road of the accident. the vehicle was driving too fast when turning sharply and the road was slippery and finally caused the accident.

Tesla said that after the driver stepped on the brake pedal, the speed decreased and the ABS function started normally. "there was nothing abnormal during the driving process until the accident," Tesla said. Tesla said he was cooperating with the driver to repair the vehicle.

It is understandable if it is an individual incident, but there have been as many as four cases of Tesla being "out of control" in just one week.

On December 30, an emergency occurred in a Tesla Model 3 at the gate of Hangzhou Wyndham Hotel, resulting in damage to the vehicle, roadside flower beds and posts at the entrance of the hotel, then the Model 3 vehicle broke the glass curtain wall and crashed into the hotel lobby and finally crashed into the hotel lobby service desk.

Tesla officially did not give a targeted response to the accident, but when media called Tesla's manual customer service to learn about the situation, Tesla replied that Model 3 had recently carried out software updates, and the reporter asked whether the accident was related to the upgrade, and customer service said that it had not yet received the relevant notification.

On the same day, when Ms. Liang, the Shanghai car owner, was driving Tesla Model 3, the owner said that the car had left the pedal and the car was still speeding up by itself. The car was strangely out of control for 20 minutes, during which the owner ventured to film Tesla's 21-second out-of-control video.

Tesla responded that the owner of a car in Shanghai, Ms. Liang, was still accelerating after leaving the pedal, saying that after the analysis of the background data and the survey of the road section, it was confirmed that the section of the road where the video was filmed was a downhill, and the vehicle accelerated due to gravitational potential energy.

Tesla only admitted that he was out of control for 21 seconds and did not admit it at any other time. In this regard, Ms. Liang thought that Tesla was sophistry, and asked Tesla to conduct a public test on the same section of the road. She wanted to know whether the vehicle she bought had broken down and whether she could travel normally.

During this period, Ms. Liang also conducted a number of tests, and let netizens witness. In response to this situation, a netizen replied that it belonged to Ms. Liang, a group of car friends, and also explained Tesla's problem, but Ms. Liang said she could not understand it.

Although Tesla's problem is not a "out of control" problem of the vehicle, some netizens think it is a design defect, which has caused controversy on the Internet.

In addition, there was a video uploaded by netizens yesterday that a Tesla Model X had a car accident on the street of Chengdu, resulting in a broken front axle and serious damage to the front of the car. Not only one car was hit by this Model X, but also Porsche, BYD and NIO, and many cars were seriously damaged.

After the passers-by at the scene questioned the Model X owner involved, the owner said that Tesla lost control and stepped on the brakes malfunctioned. However, Tesla has yet to respond to the accident.

There have been dozens of similar accidents involving Tesla in 2020. Tesla responded that "the driver was not detected to hit the brakes", while similar accidents are more and more. In so many out-of-control incidents, there is no lack of Tesla owners who say they have been driving for as long as 40 years. For a number of similar cases of the same brand in a short period of time, it may be that with the increase in sales, the media pay attention to the report, which makes this problem stand out. Is it that the media unanimously attributed the cause of the accident to getting out of control? These car owners uniformly call it a unified acceleration of the vehicle, is it the owner's excuse for himself, or is it true? Similar accidents and whether it is the owner's operation error or Tesla's intention to throw off the pot can only be investigated by the relevant regulatory authorities to know the real cause. There are more and more similar accidents, and there will eventually be an answer. If it has nothing to do with vehicles, the earlier the answer appears, the more beneficial it will be for Tesla.

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