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Model 3 catches fire after hitting a stopped tow truck in Moscow (video)
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Kappelan
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Looks like everything is all pretty simple here:
"The driver also confirmed previous reports that the vehicle was on Autopilot. He stated that he wasn’t paying attention at the time of the crash and didn’t see the tow truck before the crash.
Tretyakov says that he doesn’t blame Autopilot or Tesla for the accident.
Tesla says that drivers are always responsible to pay attention at all times and be ready to take control when using Autopilot."
https://electrek.co/2019/08/12/tesla-autopilot-brakes-model-3-crash-explosions/
"The driver also confirmed previous reports that the vehicle was on Autopilot. He stated that he wasn’t paying attention at the time of the crash and didn’t see the tow truck before the crash.
Tretyakov says that he doesn’t blame Autopilot or Tesla for the accident.
Tesla says that drivers are always responsible to pay attention at all times and be ready to take control when using Autopilot."
https://electrek.co/2019/08/12/tesla-autopilot-brakes-model-3-crash-explosions/
Kappelan
Member
The question though shouldn't Autopilot recognize that some part of the tow truck is on the line?
Daniel in SD
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It states in the owner's manual that Autopilot does not respond to vehicles that are partially in your lane.
Kappelan
Member
It just became a bad habit for media outlets to use the Tesla name in all Tesla related accidents (clickbait).
I saw another article where they interviewed 9 people about working at tesla. Sprinkled in the article were good and bad things to say about Tesla. One of them said that after seeing how the cars were made, they would never want to buy one for themselves. It didn’t elaborate of course but that type of thing can give just about anyone pause.
A colleague of mine used to work at a Toyota plant. He said the same thing.
Does that mean all Toyotas are bad?
Well that’s good to know haha. I’m sure most products don’t look as good on the inside as they do on the outside lol
SSonnentag
埃隆•馬斯克
I worked on a dairy and you don't want to know what's in your milk products either. 
A coworker's Toyota Tacoma caught fire 8 days ago in a Walmart parking lot. Just had his brakes done at Firestone two days prior. Fire was put out quickly enough to not have it burn to a crisp. He took photos of the wheel well and saw oil leaked from the brake line. Wish I had the photos. Maybe the Russian accident caused brake oil line to catch on fire, then the airbags exploded?
Likely Tesla will come out with a statement about the accident. My money is on AutoPilot not being engaged. Right now we only know what the driver said. I don't believe that the car aggressively braked hard enough before the accident. Mine tries to put me through the windshield when it does it's emergency braking thing. The alarm would have gone off alerting the driver of an obstacle. I think at this point in time the driver reacted. All speculation but I believe the car would have slowed much faster if it was in control.
I had a similar situation with a car parked on the side of the road, i passed the car but it was pretty close. The thing is that the alarm went off after I passed the car, so I won't count too much on this system.
Dang, that's convenient the fire left enough evidence to see oil leaked from a recently worked on brake line. How hard was he driving that truck to cause the (assuming) brakes to be hot enough to ignite the oil? Or did they ignite off an exhaust manifold?
AEB is designed for for a 25MPH deceleration, car was initally going 62 (100 kph). A typical driver would have swerved as well as braked.
Brake fluid in it's own isn't going to start a fire. Plus you would feel it in the pedal if it were leaking. If the caliper piston got stuck then it could overheat the brakes and catch things on fire. At which point it could melt the rubber brake line causing a leak.
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