Tesla safety and regulation in the spotlight at South Korean trial over deadly crash



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The safety and regulation of Tesla in South Korea has been put in the spotlight at a criminal trial involving a deadly crash on December 19, 2020. Choi Woan-jong was behind the wheel of the Model X that smashed into a parking lot, killing the car owner, Yoon Hong-geun. Prosecutors say Choi floored the accelerator, which Choi denies, saying the car accelerated on its own.

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43 thoughts on “Tesla safety and regulation in the spotlight at South Korean trial over deadly crash”

  1. The most recent reported out of control Tesla crash was in Garden Grove, California ( Nov 11, 2022 ). This crash was similar to the one in China on Nov 5, 2022. All the media in California report the Garden Grove incident as a suspected "driving under the influence" crash although the driver was not tested at the time of the reporting. It's fishy when all the media are reporting like it's a verbatim directive.

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  2. This is becoming more prevalent in drive-by-wire system, and soon we'll see steer-by-wire as toyota has been developing it and was going to debut as option in Lexus RZ. There are multiple redundancy in airliner for fly-by-wire and it still cost 2 max-es, while there are not many redundancy for x-by-wire in cars to be economically viable.

    As I understand it, combustion car's ECU have data on how much pedal is pressed and how much throttle/brake is actually applied. At least we could diagnose the issue if any inconsistency occurred. Their spokesperson in these incidents said no brakes were applied or accelerator being pressed hard but there were no detail if it came from actual driver's input or just what the car did regardless the of the pedal position.

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  3. this is not the first time a fatal flaw in a motorized vehicles, and other consumer products, caused multiple collisions, property damages, loss of human lives and serious injuries. It has been calculated by manufacturers, law firms and insurance companies, that it's less expensive to deal with the lawsuits than to initiate recalls or repairs. History repeats… but hardly ever remembered.

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  4. The more of these stories I see the more I question Mr Twitter's car company…. He certainly should be held to any standards or regulations every other carmaker is held to, no matter the countries

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  5. i've seen a few tesla video clips from whambamteslacam youutbe channel of people getting into accidents with teslas. And I know sometimes the car is able to avoid collisions by moving slightly out the way if it can detect one in time. Maybe the car thought it was going to be in a crash by a faulty sensor or computer or something and hit the accelerator. My only theory really. But i'm sure the data from the tesla will be extracted from the computer to see if it was the cars own decision or the action of the driver using the pedal.

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  6. In theory, nobody should had switch on FSD when entering the garage.. If FSD was switch off, the vehicle is still manually controller and it seems like the driver is at fault for making a mistake which happen for the past 100 years even to myself.. I wanted to stop the vehicle but hit the accelerator and make a biggest mess.

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