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On May 18, there was another accident related to Tesla in Chongqing. Ms. Zhang in Chongqing drove Tesla to pick up her son from school and then hit a wall at the corner of the lower floor of the garage, resulting in a fracture of her son's alveolar bone. The owner said that the car suddenly accelerated at a low speed and hit the brakes without response. The front of the car was badly damaged, the front airbag had ejected, and there was a lot of blood nearby. Traffic recorders and monitoring showed that the vehicle did accelerate significantly before the incident, and the brake lights were on before hitting the wall. The driver said he had 10 years of driving experience and bought a new car in February this year. Tesla responded after sales that he would actively assist in handling follow-up matters.

In the video of this accident, we can see that the brake lights of the vehicle have been on for a second or two before the crash, so there are two kinds of sounds on the network. the first is that the brake lights are on, indicating that the owner has reacted. The accident could have been avoided. Yang Li, a veteran video critic, commented on the video: "this does brake, but the car shows no sign of stopping." It seems that this is really a car problem. "

The second sound is that although the brake lights are on, this is the performance of Tesla's single pedal mode when the car owner releases the throttle and fails to brake the vehicle correctly. These two points, it is precisely the responsibility for the accident should be blamed on Tesla or the owner of the dispute, as in previous cases, the final answer still needs to wait.

On the afternoon of May 20, the car owner sent an open letter to the media from the owner of the car that hit the wall in Chongqing to Tesla executives, saying that the Internet Water Army questioned Ms. Tesla's operation skills and suspected that the cause of the accident was an operational error. At the same time, he suggested to Tesla that "there should really be a threshold for entry and purchase." The car owner said, "our demand is very simple. We want to know the truth of what happened. We want to get your Tesla's data and let the relevant institutions do a fair, just and open appraisal, so that thousands of Tesla riders will no longer worry!"

Yesterday, the US financial media Bloomberg also published an article, which reported that the rights protection activities of Tesla car owners at the Shanghai Auto Show, as well as a series of accidents related to Tesla, caused Tesla's sales to plummet in April, which gave Tesla a big headache. In fact, the Shanghai auto show rights activity took place on April 19, this decline, I believe that at that time did not have an impact on Tesla's sales, and May sales data, it is possible to see the reaction of consumers.

The Bloomberg report also made special reference to a serious accident in Taizhou. Bloomberg wrote: "recently, a Tesla collided with a traffic policeman who was dealing with a traffic accident on Luoqiao Luoyang Street in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, China, resulting in the death of a traffic policeman and a serious injury to a traffic policeman. The driver of the accident has been criminally detained by the police. Although the accident is still under investigation, most people believe that the car brakes failed or the driver turned on the auxiliary driving system, which was defective and could not identify people, which led to the accident. This also makes Tesla fall into a deeper whirlpool of public opinion. "

Recently, a series of serious accidents related to Tesla have made the media and the public pay special attention to Tesla. At the same time, some people think that this is a separate situation in individual markets. In fact, a few days ago, an accident similar to Taizhou occurred in the United States.

A Tesla car in autopilot mode crashed into a patrol car of a Snohomish County police officer in northern Seattle on Saturday afternoon local time, causing heavy damage, the Associated Press reported on the 17th. Fortunately, no one was hurt.

At the time of the accident, the police were dealing with another traffic accident. after arriving at the scene of the accident, the police officer parked his patrol car by the side of the road and turned on the emergency lights to learn the details of the traffic accident with the firefighters at the scene. 30 seconds later, a Tesla in autopilot mode crashed into a patrol car.

Local police warned the public on the Internet: "this is a good reminder that a car may have autopilot help, but you can't expect it to take you safely from one destination to another."

Some netizens who could not confirm their identities gave suggestions earlier on that a number of recent accidents had affected Tesla's brand. The owner of Tesla stopped driving Tesla to reduce the occurrence of accidents. Find out the owner who can't drive Tesla; 3. Car owners should promise not to protect their rights and not cause trouble if something goes wrong.

The identity of the person who made these proposals is not known, but the reasons seem absurd and do solve the current problem. Tao Lin, the company's global vice president in charge of Tesla's China business, said earlier this month that Tesla needs to strengthen consumer education, specifically, to work with driving schools and transportation departments to let car owners know how to use the new car.

From the above suggestions, compared with the Chongqing car owner in "an open letter from the owner of the Tesla hit the wall in Chongqing to the senior management of Tesla", he also suggested to Tesla that "there should be a threshold for entry and purchase, and it is necessary to reach certain abilities to buy Tesla." its position is also close to that of netizens, which shows that some Tesla owners who have had accidents have indeed stood on the opposite side of Tesla and some car owners. Other Tesla car owners laugh at themselves with car stickers on their Tesla.

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