A video camera footage has surfaced on Chinese social networks showing a Tesla Model Y trying to park and then suddenly speeding up and onto the road. The car accelerates rapidly, maneuvers and enters the lane of oncoming traffic.

There it crashes into a car and a motorcycle, and after 30 seconds and 2.6 kilometers, crashes into a shop window.

Tesla had an accident in China: watch the video

One of the family members of the 55-year-old citizen at the wheel said that the driver had a problem with the brake system. The driver survived with some injuries.

The company’s response to traffic accidents and investigations

Tesla said the logs on a particular car’s onboard computer show: brake pedal was not depressed during the incident, on the contrary, a significant part of the time the accelerator pedal was pressed. At the same time, the surveillance video shows: brake lights were still onbut for a very short time.

Police are working with an independent expert agency to evaluate the electric car’s data and video to reveal the objective circumstances of the incident. Tesla has been repeatedly accused of malfunctions in electric vehicle systems, both in China and abroad, particularly in the United States. To this, the company replied that “unpredictable accelerations” were not recorded in electric cars.

According to estimates from the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), All such acceleration at Tesla was due to the fault of the drivers. and it is in no way related to the design or automation of cars. NHTSA reminded that 16,000 preventable accidents occur annually in the United States because drivers confuse the brake and accelerator pedals.