HOUSTON – Two men are dead after a Tesla traveling in Spring crashed into a tree and no one was driving the vehicle, officials say.
The crash happened at 11:25 p.m. in the Carlton Woods subdivision near the Woodlands. The car burst into flames after hitting a tree near 18 Hammock Dunes Place.
Harris County Precinct 4 Constable Mark Herman told KPRC 2 that the investigation showed “no one was driving” the fully-electric 2019 Tesla when the accident happened. There was a person in the passenger seat of the front of the car and in the rear passenger seat of the car.
Harris County Constable Precinct 4 deputies said the vehicle was traveling at a high speed when it failed to negotiate a cul-de-sac turn, ran off the road and hit the tree.
Authorities said they used 32,000 gallons of water over four hours to extinguish the flames because the vehicle’s batteries kept reigniting. At one point, Herman said, deputies had to call Tesla to ask them how to put out the fire in the battery.
Authorities will perform autopsies on both men.
Authorities said they used 32,000 gallons of water over four hours to extinguish the flames because the vehicle’s batteries kept reigniting.
Can’t wait until one of these ignites in the Vegas death tube.
You would think that firefighters would have training on this sort of thing, or at least know that water won’t put out lithium fires
Well, from point of view of tesla, tree was coming at it with brandished branches at 70 mph. It’s called treelativity principle.
Technically the car has spinning tires so relative to its contact patch the tire was completely unmoving, that’s why the car got confused
If you need an example of how Marketing kills, directly in this case.
Just keep calling it AutoPilot, I’m sure more people won’t try to actually use the system as advertised
32k gallons to extinguish the fire
WHAT THE FUCK
That’s 121k liters.
121 cubic meters
A fucking cube of 5 m x 5 m x 5 m
A big fucking thing of water just to extinguish one fucking car.
