The accident of a Tesla car, Saturday, made a death and twenty wounded, three of whom in a serious state. An investigation should determine why the driver, which circulated at a very high speed, lost control of his vehicle.
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The very serious traffic accident occurred Saturday, December 11, in the Paris e from Paris, made a death and twenty wounded, including three in serious condition, did Know, Tuesday, December 14 in the evening, the parquet of Paris. It opened an investigation and specifies that the causes of the accident caused by a Taxi Taxi “are subject to investigations covered by the secret”. For its part, the G7 Paris Taxis Company decided not to use the models of the brand conducted by 37 of its drivers while waiting to know the results of the investigations.
Interrogated by Le Monde, Tesla excludes the hypothesis of an accelerator block or a sudden disturbance of the cruise control. Even if it has not been able to inspect the Model 3 sedan, almost completely destroyed in the accident, the brand ensures that the vehicle has undergone “no technical failure”. TESLA is able to remotely operate on its cars of updates or certain settings (delivered power, battery recharge management or driving aids) in the manner of smartphones. In the opposite direction, it has telemetry data from its vehicles.
“We are able to know what happened or what did not happen aboard one of our models,” says Tesla’s spokesperson in France, without specifying the type of information collected at the end of the Paris crash. The investigation should determine why the driver, which circulated at a very high speed, lost control of his vehicle.
A brand that wants a pioneer in autonomous driving
In January 2020, Tesla had resolved to publish a focus that his models could be subject to “unintentional acceleration”, as did some drivers in the United States. “We investigated each incident and whenever the data was available, we were able to establish (…) that the car accelerates whether, and only if, the driver decided it,” Tesla. The firm specified in particular that the accelerator pedal has two sensors and in case of malfunction (simultaneous support on both pedals, for example) the engine torque is immediately cut.
In addition to the emotion caused by such an accident, rare in Paris, the fact that he involved a Tesla gives him a particular relief. This brand is not only synonymous with very listed electric cars; ELON MUSK’s firm is also a pioneer in autonomous driving, leaving the spotlight on it when a serious accident involves one of its vehicles.
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