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Recently, according to media reports, a traffic accident involving Tesla vehicles occurred in a residential area in Linyi City, Shandong Province, causing damage to a total of seven vehicles. According to the relevant video, a black Tesla Model3 suddenly began to accelerate after turning into a slip road in the neighborhood at the intersection, and finally stopped after it hit a Wuling Hongguang MINI EV head on.

Several cars that were hit at the time of the accident were stopped and there was no one inside. It is understood that the accident caused a total of seven vehicles, including Model 3, which caused the accident, to varying degrees of damage. From the video of the scene, the head of the Tesla Model 3 was seriously damaged, oil was spilled all over the floor, and the front airbag and side head air curtain had all been opened. At present, it is not clear the specific cause of the accident.

In response to this incident, some netizens said: could it be that some driver took the throttle as the brake, not the brake failure, but driving too fast. Another netizen said: Tesla's routine operation.

Tesla accidents have occurred frequently in recent months, whether it is Tesla's problem or the car owner's problem, it is impossible to come to a conclusion, but there is no doubt that frequent accidents do cause consumers to worry about Tesla's products. Due to the negative effects of frequent accidents and protecting the rights of auto shows, Tesla encountered the biggest public opinion crisis in China.

Tesla's "single pedal" mode has also caused great controversy. Tesla is designed for a single pedal, the so-called single pedal mode is through the acceleration pedal to achieve vehicle start, acceleration and deceleration, step down acceleration, release deceleration, as long as the driver is skilled, start, taxiing, braking and other operations can be accomplished by controlling the strength of the pedal. However, although the single pedal mode is sufficient to complete most acceleration and deceleration operations under normal driving conditions, drivers are prone to operational errors when emergency situations require emergency braking. Secondly, many drivers who are in contact with the single pedal mode for the first time can not adapt to this set of operating habits.

Zhou Hongyi, chairman of 360, said at an exchange event recently that the design of the single pedal mode of electric cars is inhumane and will bring great hidden dangers and completely change the habits of users. It says that under normal circumstances, when you release the throttle, it is slowly slowing down. If the object in front of you is very close, you need to press the brake pedal quickly. However, if you do not fully adapt to the single pedal mode, in case of an emergency, people's thinking will stagnate, he will unconsciously put the throttle under his feet as a brake pedal, hard to press down. Zhou Hongyi also stressed why he saw in some videos that when some electric cars were about to crash, Zhou Hongyi thought it was a problem caused by the single-pedal mode. Zhou Hongyi also stressed that he had no evidence and just expressed his opinion from the point of view of a product manager.

It is worth noting that Tao Lin, vice president of foreign affairs of Tesla, said publicly earlier that "in the use of vehicles, we still need to strengthen consumer education, and we need to cooperate with driving schools and transportation departments to let everyone understand the use of the new car." avoid misoperation in the use process, or some other problems caused by lack of functional understanding. "

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