maks you want to go right out and buy one.
Spontaneous Human Combustion happens
Alot in Los Angeles.
Aside from that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the test drive?
What Autopilot can do
Basic Autopilot is a system that is installed on every modern Tesla as a standard feature. This system includes very basic features that lets the Tesla automatically accelerate up to a pre-set speed, brake for other vehicles or pedestrians that it sees ahead, as well as minimal steering to keep your car centered in a lane.
This Tesla Autopilot system is designed to “assist with the most burdensome parts of driving” — namely driving long distances on highways and other similar roads. These cars also come with emergency braking, collision alerts, blind spot monitoring and adaptive cruise control. Crucially, that last feature only controls acceleration and braking, leaving the driver to do the steering.
If NBC was the source of this story, just another lie by them.
To be fair, the Autopilot system did navigate very accurately to the scene of the crash.
The sparkler effect was likely caused by individual sells within the battery exploding individually as the cells around them became superheated.
The Tesla does its own buying and selling?
(Emphasis mine)
“Tesla Bursts into Flames After Hitting Highway Barrier While on Autopilot in Los Angeles”
Kind of STUPID putting a Tesla on ‘Autopilot’ if one plans to drive into a barrier.
Try something else, you fossil-polluting types.
If you die in one of these radio shack specials at least your helping to save the earth!
Any damage to an EV battery, whether it causes a fire or not, means the car is totaled. You need gap insurance or you may lose a lot of dough if this happens. A vehicle striking the car from the side or a collision with a fixed object can total the battery.
Finally, all those silly movie cliches about every crashing car exploding into flame are coming true!
Given the current state of battery tech the crop of EVs we have are dangerous and impractical.
They have a battery chemistry that generates it’s own oxygen when they combust...not good at all! I recall the oxygen-rich air in the Apollo capsule that caught fire and killed 3 brave astronauts in the 70’s :-(
The best car you could have with the technology at hand is IMO a diesel-electric hybrid. A car with a smallish 4-cylinder diesel that charges up a modest battery bank with a stable and safe chemistry, like the LiFePO4 cells, they weigh about twice as much as the current crop of EV cells but you can drill holes through the cells and they will not sustain combustion.
It would appear that such a diesel-electric would have very poor acceleration but actually they can be designed to switch to electric motors if you tromp on the gas... for a short while the LiFePO4 battery bank could deliver acceleration as good as or better than the hot-rods of old.
Use the electric engines when in dense city traffic to lower pollution and still have all the power to get out of a situation quickly if you need to.. Plus diesel is far less explosive than gas, you can almost put a fire out by throwing diesel on it.
And imagine getting stuck in a snowdrift for hours in an EV, you will freeze.. but the diesel-electric hybrid would chug along making wonderful heat for you :-)
Expect to see much, much more of this reporting.
Musk is now the enemy of the left (and I am certainly no “defender of the EV faith”).
Musk has painted himself into a corner he of all people should have seen coming, and I fault his late awakening (better late than never, but his price in particular is very, very high).
Oversized electric golf kart fanbois will not approve of this thread.
BAN electric vehicles, and BAN politicians who want to require them!!!!
Wow! Tesla could have the potential of being an autopilot-guided fire bomb! Next will be a background check to own one.
Anyone actually read the article? NO crash at all the headline is a lie. Since they killed Breitbart himself the site has evolved into garbage.
