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Test drive of an X results in test driver backing into Sunnyvale Showroom. X and S suffer damage. Test Driver hits accelerator as opposed to brake and accelerates through glass front to showroom.
Test drive of an X results in test driver backing into Sunnyvale Showroom. X and S suffer damage. Test Driver hits accelerator as opposed to brake and accelerates through glass front to showroom.
My guess is that it was more likely a Drive-Reverse confusion. (The stalk on the S and X are, IMO, intuitively backwards...it took me a while to get used to it.)
When you are backing an X in the front lot (outside) just outside of the showroom and accelerate through the plate glass window, to the showroom, you end up inside of the showroom with the X colliding into the S which had been sitting in the showroom.