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by rasz 1643 days 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?
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> 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?