Tesla has made new progress in braking the door. On August 12, 2020, Mr. Chen, the owner of Wenzhou, said that at a distance of about 100 meters from the parking lot, his Tesla accelerated out of control, stepped on the brake did not work, and hit more than a dozen cars before stopping. Subsequently, Tesla cooperated with the law enforcement department and the identification agency to obtain the driving data at the time of the accident recorded on the vehicle "black box" by retrieving and decrypting the vehicle EDR data.
By comparing Tesla cloud background data and vehicle EDR data, the result of identification is that the owner accidentally stepped on the pedal, resulting in vehicle accidents.
Today, Mr. Chen, a party to the Tesla Wenzhou incident, issued a public apology letter on his certified microblog account.
There are several key messages:
1 / on the night of the accident, I drove home and suddenly found someone in front of me on the road inside the community. I wanted to step on the brake. As a result, I stepped on the wrong accelerator as the brake. The vehicle rushed into the parking lot and collided with the parking lot gate, parked vehicles, isolation barriers, etc.
2 / after the accident, although I knew that I stepped on the accelerator as the brake, I was unwilling, so I began to fabricate the content in August.
3 / during the implementation of the above actions, other car owners claiming to "protect their rights" also came to contact me. Mr. Feng, the owner of the car in Shanghai, took the initiative to contact me and introduced me to a platform. The platform arranged a lawyer for me. All the fees of the first instance lawyer were paid by this platform, and I didn't pay any fees of the first instance lawyer myself. Ms. Henan car advocate and Mr. Han, the owner of Tianjin, also contacted me. I once joined the rights protection car owners group, but later I quit the group because of different ideas and ideas. After the trial verdict was made, Ms. Che claimed that she invited me to write a joint book class action with other car owners, but I refused.
The full text of the apology letter is as above, which is a simple summary: I did step on the wrong foot. I deliberately spread rumors, and there is support behind it.
There are several key people: Mr. Feng and platform in Shanghai, Ms. Zhang in Henan and Mr. Han in Tianjin.
According to the exclusive information received by Hu olfactory, the platform that supports Mr. Chen to sue Tesla and arranges lawyers for Mr. Chen is just an ordinary lawyer platform. However, this lawyer platform often invests to "support the rights protection of Tesla owners". It not only arranges lawyers, but also actively pays legal fees and participates in several rights protection cases of Tesla owners, but the investor behind this lawyer platform has not been exposed
Ms. Zhang from Henan Province in Mr. Chen's apology letter in Wenzhou is actually a member of the Tesla roof rights protection team at the 2021 Shanghai auto show.
The story of Ms. Zhang in Henan is as follows:
At about 18:00 on February 21, the owner's father, Mr. Zhang, collided with other vehicles while driving along national highway 341. On the evening of the same day, the traffic police issued a letter of responsibility for the accident: it was found that Mr. Zhang had violated the provisions of relevant laws on safe driving and keeping a safe distance from the car in front, and should be fully responsible for the accident. In view of the owner's full responsibility accident caused by illegal driving, we expressed our willingness to assist Ms. Zhang in completing vehicle maintenance and insurance claims, but Ms. Zhang strongly refused.
On March 6, Ms. Zhang sealed the whole car, refused any form of vehicle inspection, and put forward demands for returning the car, as well as compensation for mental loss, medical expenses, lost work expenses and so on.
On the morning of March 9, the market supervision and Administration Bureau of Zhengzhou New Area invited Tesla and Ms. Zhang to mediate. Finally, Ms. Zhang agreed to negotiate the identification after selecting a third-party testing technology agency, and signed the mediation letter.
On the afternoon of March 9, Ms. Zhang went back on her word and blocked the accident car with the seal back to Tesla's door store again. She made it clear to Tesla staff that she would not accept or recognize any third-party test results, nor accept any mediation, and continued to protect her rights by sitting on the roof of the car and playing the recording with the horn.
As for Ms. Zhang's question about the failure of the brake, after viewing and analyzing the vehicle data and on-site photos, Tesla found that the vehicle's speed before stepping on the brake pedal was 118.5km/h, the ABS worked normally during braking, the front collision warning and automatic emergency braking functions were activated and played a role, and no abnormality of the vehicle's braking system was found.
However, Ms. Zhang is obviously dissatisfied with the appraisal results. She has repeatedly claimed that the appraisal institution "China Quality Certification Center" given by the Municipal Supervision Bureau is not credible and may be "fishy" with Tesla. Therefore, compared with finding a satisfactory testing institution to make the matter public, Ms. Zhang chose to form a partner with Ms. Li and make it to the end.
Mr. Han, the Tianjin owner in Mr. Chen's apology letter from Wenzhou owner, is also one of Tesla's rights protection owners and an active member of rights protection owners. There has been an exposed wechat dialogue before. Mr. Han is giving advice to two women to make trouble to protect their rights.
Mr. Feng, Ms. Zhang, Ms. Li, Mr. Chen and Mr. Han, several rights owners who are good at mobilizing the emotions of Internet users, have jointly shaped the label and concept of "Tesla brake failure" in online public opinion. Although it has been more than a year, there are still sporadic comments on Tesla brake failure in the comment area of any content about Tesla on the Internet.
Spread a rumor and break your leg.
Tesla this storm, in fact, has long been the owner's "rights protection" means, which is mixed with too many various positions first, interest relations, rub flow and other groups' participation, which means I can experience it.
But the most crucial thing in the whole incident is who is supporting car owners to protect their rights, which is still a mystery.