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The closely watched "Wenzhou Tesla brake failure" incident ushered in the latest progress. On May 9, a blogger named "Mobile user 3042983165" posted an apology letter on the social platform: "admitting to fabricating the truth is stepping on the wrong pedal". In the apology letter, the blogger said: he was a party to the Tesla accident in Wenzhou on August 12, 2020, and admitted that he mistook the throttle for the brake. since the middle of August of that year, in interviews on Douyin, Weibo, radio and television, he has continued to fabricate contents such as "Tesla automatic acceleration brake failure" and "cherish life away from Tesla". To insult and denigrate Tesla Company and Tesla Automobile. The party also said that the staff of Tesla company had contacted him many times in the hope that he could explain the true situation of the accident to the public, but he ignored it. After the first and second trial of the case, the verdict found that the party concerned constituted an infringement on the reputation of Tesla Company. He should apologize to Tesla Company and compensate for economic losses, and apologize to Tesla Company and netizens. He said, "Don't be blinded by your own selfishness and the bewitching of others."

First of all, let's review the cause of the whole incident: the Wenzhou Tesla out-of-control car owner incident occurred on August 12, 2020. on that day, Mr. Chen driving Tesla Model 3 suddenly accelerated at a position 100m from the parking lot and hit more than a dozen cars before coming to a stop. The accident caused damage to a number of cars, and Mr. Chen's Model 3 was also severely damaged. The owner, Mr. Chen, was successfully rescued after seven hours of rescue and was medically identified as a Grade 9 disability. After the accident, Mr. Chen said that the accident was caused by the out of control acceleration of the vehicle and crashing into the railing of the toll booth. At that time, his vehicle did not turn on autopilot. At first, the speed of the car was only 5km/h, and then suddenly accelerated to 120km/h. The vehicle was suddenly out of control, and emergency braking had no effect. Mr. Chen also said that he had been an "old driver" for more than a decade and would never make the mistake of stepping on the accelerator as a brake. Tesla gave the test results said: "the car owner mistakenly stepped on the acceleration pedal, there is no problem with the vehicle."

After that, Tesla sued in Wenzhou Lucheng District people's Court, which ruled in Tesla's favor on October 11, 2021, demanding that Mr. Chen apologize to Tesla and compensate Tesla for 50, 000 yuan on the top of his account on Douyin platform for 90 days. In response to the judgment, Mr. Chen said in response to the "urgent call" that he had no choice but to admit it in order to divide the liability and complete the insurance claim as soon as possible. Mr. Chen said, "I am a victim. Tesla did not compensate me for a penny. Instead, he has been sued by Tesla. He has not yet got the verdict and will appeal when he gets it." After that, Mr. Chen, the owner of Wenzhou Tesla, posted an article entitled "I believe that Justice will come" on his Weibo, responding to the result of the judgment of first instance and clarifying some of the facts that were not reflected. Finally, the case came into effect in March this year after the first and second instance, and the verdict found that it constituted an infringement on the reputation of Tesla Company. We should apologize to Tesla Company and compensate for economic losses.

It is worth mentioning that in the letter of apology released yesterday, the blogger also said that during the period of "safeguarding rights", other car owners who claimed to be "safeguarding their rights" contacted the blogger. Mr. Feng, the owner of the Shanghai car, took the initiative to contact me and introduced me to a certain platform. The platform arranged for me a lawyer. All the fees for first instance lawyers were collected from this platform, and I did not pay any fees for first instance lawyers. Ms. Zhang, the owner of Henan car, and Mr. Han, the owner of Tianjin, also contacted me. I once joined the group of activist car owners, but later I dropped out of the group because of different ideas. After the judgment of the second instance was made, Ms. Zhang, the owner of Henan car, invited me to write a joint book class action with other car owners, but I refused.

Ms. Zhang, the Henan car owner, and Mr. Han, the Tianjin car owner mentioned in the above apology letter, are also one of the owners of Tesla's rights protection cars. Ms. Zhang, the owner of Henan car, and Mr. Han, the owner of Tianjin, also responded to the contents mentioned in the above apology letter.

In a post on Weibo, Ms. Zhang said: "according to Wenzhou car owner Mr. Chen Junyi, the letter of apology was written by Tesla." Your apology or compromise is between you and Tesla. Why did you throw dirty water on me? Why involve outsiders who have nothing to do with the case? Tesla wrote an apology letter and asked you to publish it? What is your real intention when you agree to release it? What is the intention? With regard to the claims of safeguarding rights and bewitching, can you live with it on your conscience? " At the same time, she also listed the course of contact with Wenzhou car owners, and said at the end of the article: "warn the person who wrote this letter, you are the initiators who are trying to confuse public opinion and confuse black and white!" And Mr. Han, the owner of the car in Tianjin, also released a message saying, "the reputation dispute between you and Tesla has nothing to do with me. Why did you bring me in?" but I can understand it when I think it was written by Tesla, but understanding doesn't mean letting go. It is immoral for you to throw dirty water on others in order to reduce punishment or gain forgiveness. even if you didn't write it, it was posted through your Weibo. "

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