Paris' largest taxi firm suspends Tesla Model 3 cars after fatal crash

Paris' largest taxi firm suspends Tesla Model 3 cars after fatal crash(bbc.co.uk)

6 points by yannoninator 4 years ago | 5 comments

rasz 4 years ago |

Dude off the clock plows into a group of pedestrians, no automation was in use at the time - his employer bans the car model fleet wide. whaaaaa?

bellyfullofbac 4 years ago | |

> The accident involved an off-duty taxi driver who had been taking his family to a restaurant, reports say.

There's a CCTV video of how fast the car was moving just before an off-camera crash: https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/tesla-die-sekunden-vor-dem-t...

Seems very insane to go that fast with your family in the car. Later in the video you see the wreck and all the airbags have been blown.

The car was already going very fast in that video, it seems if it was driver error, that's a very long time to be confusing the gas and brake pedals. It could still be a deranged person, who, if he's not white, will be called a terrorist, but again, why take the family?

Another possibility would be the driver suffered a medical emergency and couldn't control the car anymore. But if none of the above applied, then... stuck accelerator pedal?

josephcsible 4 years ago |

Is there any evidence this crash had anything to do with Autopilot or FSD? Statistically, the Model 3 is the safest car there is. And do they suspend the Crown Vic or Prius (or whatever the equivalent ubiquitous carbon-emitting taxis are in France) every time they get in a crash?

BoorishBears 4 years ago | |

Statistically Tesla has abused statistics to make up misleading points.

Things like comparing the Model 3 to all cars on the road when the average car is something like 12 years old and driven by a very different demographic.

Or comparing AP accident rates to all rates of accidents when AP is speed limited and mainly operates on the safest types of roads (pretty much won't work on the most dangerous kind, "stroads")

sidibe 4 years ago | | |

> Things like comparing the Model 3 to all cars on the road when the average car is something like 12 years old and driven by a very different demographic.

Even worse than that their go-to stat is freeway miles where people feel comfortable enough to have Autopilot on miles compared to all cars all roads all conditions for others