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Tesla has had another accident! On May 7, a Tesla Model 3 rear-ended minivan in Shaoguan, Guangdong. The scene was a mess. Tesla Model 3 was seriously damaged in the incident, the front of the car was damaged and one side of the front wheel fell off.

From the pictures at the scene, the vehicle involved is 2021 domestic Model 3 models, the main driver side impact is the most serious, A-pillar crashed into the bottom of the minivan, directly bent, and has been squeezed into the cockpit.

From the surveillance video of the road section of the incident, we can see that Tesla Model 3 was driving at extremely high speed at that time and obviously turned the steering wheel to the right in the front section of the minivan that was about to crash into the minivan. However, due to the excessive speed and understeer of the vehicle, the driver finally chased the rear part of the van on the side, and the huge impact also crashed the truck into the isolation belt. Another source said that the speed of the Model 3 reached 150km per hour before the incident, but the news has not been confirmed.

According to Shaoguan police, at about 12:00 on May 7, 2021, a minivan was rear-ended by a small car while travelling from west to east to Wuliting Phoenix Road in Hanjiang District, killing the driver on the spot. In response to the incident, Tesla responded: he is waiting for the results of the investigation and does not yet know the specific situation.

In less than half a month, the police have reported three Tesla accidents. Since the incident of protecting the rights of Tesla booth in Shanghai Auto Show, Tesla's accidents have increased significantly.

A Tesla car in Zengcheng District of Guangzhou caught fire after hitting the cement barrier on April 17. According to the video of other vehicle traffic recorders at the scene, the vehicle crashed head-on into the outermost cement barrier on the road, instantly swinging its tail and causing damage to the body, and the chassis was seriously damaged during the impact. After the personnel on board were evacuated, the car caught fire about 15 minutes after the accident.

A traffic accident occurred on the north of Dongjiang Avenue in Zengcheng District at about 22:00 on April 17, the official account "Guangzhou Zengcheng Police" announced on April 21. After preliminary investigation, a car driven by Zuo carrying a male passenger passed through the above road section at the time of the incident, and the vehicle collided with the cement separation wall on the right side of the road and the car driven by Wang, resulting in the death of the male passenger on the left on the spot. No one else was injured in the accident, and then the vehicle driven by Zuo burned.

Tesla official response: the vehicle did not start the automatic driving function, the whole process is operated by the driver. At the time of the accident, the driver felt that the speed was too low, so he accelerated to overtake, and a collision occurred in the process of overtaking. During this period, we have been actively communicating with car owners and are fully cooperating with local traffic control departments to analyze and identify the accident, and provide relevant driving data.

On April 25, a Tesla collided with an electric car on Changming Road, Siming District, Xiamen, Fujian Province, injuring four people on the electric car. According to the official account Xiamen Police online, a small car collided with a two-wheeled electric car outside the Lianbanxi district on Changming Road, Siming District, Xiamen. After investigation, when Zuo was driving a small car at the south gate of the district, the left side of the car collided with the district road gate, and then when reversing, the rear of the car collided with a two-wheeled electric vehicle travelling from east to west along Changming Road, causing electric car driver Yu and three children on the electric car to fall to the ground and injured.

Tesla's official response: according to the analysis of vehicle data and on-site surveillance video, the speed of the vehicle increased from 8.4km / h to 17.5km / h at 11:49:55 and hit the gate of the district. The brake pedal was pressed down after the collision, and the vehicle began to back up at 11:50:03, and the accelerator pedal was pressed deeply after 3 seconds. At this time, the maximum speed of the vehicle driving backward reaches 14 km / h. Until 11:50:07 the vehicle stops. The accident injured the driver and passengers of the electric bicycle. To sum up, the vehicle did not have the fault of braking system before the accident.

Another Tesla police report is as a rear-end collision in Shaoguan, Guangdong. At present, there are also many doubts about this incident: did the driver turn on autopilot at that time? if the driver took the initiative to control the vehicle, why was the speed so fast at that time? if autopilot was turned on, what caused the vehicle to crash into the truck at high speed? All these need to be solved by the authorities.

At present, there is no direct evidence to prove that there is a problem with Tesla's products. Tesla does not release driving data to the outside world, and Tesla's relevant notification runs counter to the description of the parties concerned, which leads to consumers' doubts and worries about Tesla's products. Tesla's frequent accidents are product problems. Car owners' driving habits or purely normal traffic accidents may take time to prove.

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