Franklin County released video on Wednesday showing the moments a Tesla crashed into the Greater Columbus Convention Center last week.
A crash report says the driver hit the building going 70 mph on May 4. Police said the driver of the 2020 Telsa Model S was traveling on Vine Street at a very high rate of speed, ran a red light and crashed into the center.
According to police, the driver said he lost control of his brakes on state Route 315 and exited onto Neil Avenue, but maintained a speed of 70 mph.
The video shows the Tesla hitting a curb and going airborne through the center’s glass doors. Another camera from inside the building shows the vehicle driving through the doors, hitting a pillar and stopping.
Two witnesses standing on the sidewalk in front of the convention center told police it appeared the driver increased his speed in order to make a yellow light. Another witness said it did not appear that the driver attempted to hit the brakes before hitting the building.
The driver was taken to a hospital in what police described as stable condition. He was cited for failure to control.
The crash caused about $250,000 to $300,000 in damage, according to Scott Reed, the Capital Projects Director.
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Isn’t there some way of turning them off?
I’m surprised it didn’t burst into flames!
…well, he made the light, didn’t he?!?
RadioMattM
MAY 11, 2022 AT 4:16 PM
“Isn’t there some way of turning them off?”
…time. The batteries will poop out in a few years, they’re too expensive to actually replace even if they still make them, and they’ll probably die a death of a thousand cuts in the meantime from little crap going wrong that its impossible to get parts for.
Notice how we are now hearing about all the problems with Teslas now that Musk bought Twitter? People are coming out of the woodwork to tell how bad they are.
…I don’t know what the pedal arrangement is in a Tesla, never been in one, but in fairness there are times I’ve driven my kid’s little Infiniti G35 and pushed the gas pedal down with the side of my size 11 Haix station boot while pressing the relatively tiny brake pedal, which causes unexpected acceleration during braking, so maybe something like that but dude panicked and didn’t get up off it…
A friend has a very expensive Audi. One of the features is that the engine shuts off when you stop at a light or stop sign or while waiting for a parking spot. It’s to save gas and the planet. Riding in it is the most nerve wracking experience. At every stop I’m anticipating that the car WON’T start as it’s supposed to. New fangled features that make no sense.
Just roll down the windows, turn it off, roll the windows back up and restart it.
One of my customers today just told me that he bought his Tesla 3 years ago Before COOF for about $15,000 below current retail. (his cost $45,000 financed)
He is very happy with it, the savings, & also acknowledges that his wife has a 4 cylinder Camry. Between both choices he says that he has no regrets and could not have been luckier. (he claims 420 km per charge on the Tesla)
His Camry was Much cheaper at $34,000.
His words, Not mine.
If you are a 2 car family & it fits, It may be reasonable.
Personally $11,000 less for the Camry would have resulted in me owning 2 Camry’s
All I know Is I would not buy an electric anything from the Big 3 producers of SHIT.
What is resale Value like?
I have heard that no one wants a used Tesla.
“the driver said he lost control of his brakes”.
He didn’t say that the brakes failed.
I’ve been in cabs that do that. Scared the bejeebus out of me when I first encountered it. Especially as a female alone, at night, in an unfamiliar area, with an ahem,”diverse” driver.
Oops, forgot mention my comment was in response to Illustr8r.
…all that said, it probably uses the gas pedal simply as an analog input for a controller, with a spring on it to make it “feel” like you’re pulling a cable like you used to. That controller will send a speed reference to a drive chopper/variable frequency drive, which will vary the frequency sent to the electric motor(s).
It doesn’t happen often, but this type of arrangement IS susceptible to an assortment of issues, from a bad input at the “gas pedal” giving an erroneous input to faulty shielding causing input/output errors which could include a faulty speed reference, to a stuck relay (depends, I don’t know their particular drives) that won’t shut down the output when commanded, programming errors that resolve conflicting inputs like pressing the brake and the gas together that makes the wrong decision about what your commanded intention is, to…
…you get the idea. As the complexity increases, so does the risk of actual electrical component and/or programming error resulting in undesired operation.
Remember too that this is a collection of programmed devices that may be made by many manufacturers who didn’t necessarily design them to work together. Tech is a tricky business, and each version change carries its own risk.
Just as an example, I sometimes have issues with robots having problems that are positional. One such was that it would only have errors in certain positions. On examination in one such particular position I found the insulation had been worn off a bundle of I/O wires to the tooling, exposing bare copper but NOT breaking the wire. This allowed two exposed wires to touch each other in a certain position, which would activate an output in the tooling when it wasn’t supposed to, which caused the tooling to make contact with the work product and then fault the robot because of the contact. It couldn’t tell me this because it didn’t “know” about the output, it only “knew” that *something* was overloading the robot when it moved. I was able to replace the cable after that, but only after finding it, with that sort of thing being my full time job.
…”shit happens” in complex electronic control systems is what I’m saying, and while it gets less reliable over time, electronics can fail at any time, even have “infant” failures right out of the box.
So it isn’t impossible that the driver is telling the truth.
Because computers can lie with a straight face that humans can’t match.
Ask Dominion about that…
aleon
MAY 11, 2022 AT 4:50 PM
““the driver said he lost control of his brakes”.
He didn’t say that the brakes failed.”
…remember back when everyone thought we’d all die in an Audi 5000 Sudden Acceleration Apocalypse back about 40 odd years ago?
…it may be like that…
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The flashy Rupert Murdoch-owned competitor to Car & Driver and Road & Track offers acerbic commentary by P.J. O`Rourke titled ”The Sudden Accleration Media Hack and Liability Lawyers Bottom-Feeder Tournament.” He derides high-profile allegations and lawsuits claiming that the AUDI 5000 is a four-wheel peril and that have caused a decline in Audi sales. He calls sudden acceleration a ”mysterious phenomenon in which a short, silly, middle-aged woman with a lawyer gets into an Audi 5000 and-all of a sudden, for no apparent reason-goes through the back wall of her garage and onto the CBS `60 Minutes` television program.”
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He notes that a federally commissioned report by engineering experts exonerated the carmaker and blamed the errant tootsies of drivers. ”This document scientifically proved what everyone who owns more than two Snap-on tools had known all along: Pedal misapplications are the likely cause of these incidents.` ” Yes, O`Rourke concludes, ”the dumb buggers stepped on the gas instead of the brake.””
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…let me try that again…
aleon
MAY 11, 2022 AT 4:50 PM
““the driver said he lost control of his brakes”.
He didn’t say that the brakes failed.”
…remember back when everyone thought we’d all die in an Audi 5000 Sudden Acceleration Apocalypse back about 40 odd years ago?
…it may be like that…
“…acerbic commentary by P.J. O`Rourke titled ”The Sudden Accleration Media Hack and Liability Lawyers Bottom-Feeder Tournament.” He derides high-profile allegations and lawsuits claiming that the AUDI 5000 is a four-wheel peril and that have caused a decline in Audi sales. He calls sudden acceleration a ”mysterious phenomenon in which a short, silly, middle-aged woman with a lawyer gets into an Audi 5000 and-all of a sudden, for no apparent reason-goes through the back wall of her garage and onto the CBS `60 Minutes` television program.”
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He notes that a federally commissioned report by engineering experts exonerated the carmaker and blamed the errant tootsies of drivers. ”This document scientifically proved what everyone who owns more than two Snap-on tools had known all along: Pedal misapplications are the likely cause of these incidents.` ” Yes, O`Rourke concludes, ”the dumb buggers stepped on the gas instead of the brake.””
-P.J. O’Rourke
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1989-06-22-8902110563-story.html
…sorry about that…
About 15 years ago or so on my way to work one morning at about 5 AM I was in my POS Chevy Corsica when I was passed by a stolen Acura NSX going well over 100 mph on an arterial with more cops than I’ve ever seen before chasing after this lady and the stolen Acura with lights flashing and sirens screaming. Fortunately, she blew by me like there was no tomorrow in the left lane, if she’d would’ve hit me I would’ve been dead. At the corner of Division and Indiana in N. Central Spokane, she tried to take the corner to the left flying like a bat out of Hell and lost control and slammed into an old oak tree right in front of Planned Parenthood on Indiana Avenue and instantly the car caught on fire and she was burned to death almost immediately. By the time I was 2 blocks away and saw and heard the impact and the car exploding in a great big ball of fire, the cops had already closed Division to any further traffic. It was quite an eventful morning, later it was found out that she had stolen the Acura from a local casino and was higher than a kite on drugs and had led the cops on a high speed chase that morning thru the almost empty streets of N Spokane. I don’t ever want to ever see anything like that ever again.
@Illustr8r
Starters are electro-mechanical devices. They inevitably wear out. Now multiply the on-off cycles by about 1000. Yes – there will come a day where it won’t.
It’s supposed to save gas/money. Consider that miniscule savings vs the fuel spent towing it and the cost of premature starter change-outs.
But but but it’s sustainable!
geoff the aardvark
MAY 11, 2022 AT 6:17 PM
“…instantly the car caught on fire and she was burned to death almost immediately.”
…mostly folks don’t burn to death immediately, it takes a minute and they can do a lot of ancillary damage to themselves if they’re trapped in a jagged metal and plastic coffin before the smoke kills ’em.
But no worries, as hard as she hit, even tho the airbag probably protected her from a traumatic arrest and being speared by the steering column, she probably had both her femurs broke and/or rammed out through her ass when she submarined into the dashboard so she would have bled out pretty quick, if her neck didn’t get snapped by the 1st generation airbag first.
“I don’t ever want to ever see anything like that ever again.”
Meh. You can get used to anything.
@Illustr8r: I just purchased a new 2022 vehicle which has the same feature of the engine shutting off when coming to a stop. My vehicle has the feature to turn it off – which I do. If it’s an expensive vehicle, there’s gotta be the same kind of feature.
You probably won’t be surprised at how many used EVs show up for sale…CHEAP.
This usually happens around the time the original owner needs to replace the 800 to 1,500 pound battery case, which (by the way) replaces 2 to 5 grossly obese passengers (by weight) while driving alone.
@geoff the aardvark: “slammed into an old oak tree right in front of Planned Parenthood”
She planned that right, she’ll never be a parent, she aborted herself.
Airbags?
…….don’t tell me I’m the only one who sells those to make room for gun storage.
You can fit a Desert Eagle in the passenger side airbag compartment.
um…..you know. Hypothetically speaking.
What, no fire?
@GoldenFox Sounds like the same thing. I couldn’t wait to get out of that car with its constant on/off. It’s a bug not a feature! lol
It reminded me of riding with someone who presses the gas/brake off/on and are unable to maintain a consistent speed-a slow whiplash. Everyone I know from Pennsylvania drives like that!
Video shows out of control Tesla
Out of control or hacked by CIA/FBI?
What does the driver know about members of the deep state (Hillary, Obama Sleepy creepy Joe?)
The thing I wonder about are all those start-ups with no oil pressure. That has to take its toll on engine longevity over the long haul.