Last month, a female Tesla owner made a fuss at the Shanghai Auto Show, claiming that the Tesla Model 3 brakes were not working. After the Chinese Communist Party’s official media joined the denunciation, the incident rapidly fermented. Earlier this month, the Tesla Model 3 was reported to have failed to brake again and crashed into a wall pillar. A few days ago, Tesla responded after reviewing the monitor and background data that there was no record of the driver’s braking action before the incident, and that the accelerator pedal was “deeply depressed” 2 seconds before the incident.
The mainland media reported on May 9 that on May 1, a Tesla crashed into a wall pillar in the parking lot of Huangpu Yuandi Central Plaza in Guangzhou due to a suspected brake failure, and the airbag did not pop out, and the driver was hospitalized for injuries. The family claimed that the driver had applied the brakes at the time of the incident, but the vehicle still accelerated and crashed.
Tesla customer service microblogging response on the 3rd, review the process of the incident monitor screen and background driving data found that the vehicle into the parking space when the “high brake light” (rear upper brake light) did not light up, and there is obvious acceleration situation. According to the background data, there was no record of braking action before the collision, but 2 seconds before the collision, the vehicle’s accelerator pedal was “deeply depressed”.
Tesla said that a combination of factors, the vehicle is all driver control, the accident did not occur before the brake system failure problem.
Tesla has been in trouble in China since last month’s Shanghai Auto Show, when a female Tesla owner caused a scene at the booth. The Communist Party’s official media have been vocal in their criticism, and news has come out of many places that Tesla is banned from entering neighborhoods and parking lots, and banned from highways.
It is widely believed that the crackdown on Tesla in China is not a dispute between ordinary consumers and manufacturers, but rather a political factor behind it. It is unusual that the worst quality cars have not been criticized by the Chinese Communist Party’s official media, while the best quality Tesla has been criticized and boycotted one after another.
Current affairs commentator Tang Jingyuan pointed out that the purpose of the Chinese Communist Party’s pursuit of Tesla is, first, to stir up anti-American sentiment; second, to create momentum for Huawei cars; and third, to obtain Tesla’s data.
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