"Glory and controversy" is the best way to describe Tesla in China.
As the top seller of high-end electric cars in China, Tesla is highly sought after by consumers.
But sales have been accompanied by doubts that the Model 3 lost control of its "brakes and automatic acceleration" that caused the crash.
If only once or twice the owner of the car questioned "brake failure, automatic acceleration", there is reason to suspect that the owner of the wrong operation.
However, the sales volume of Tesla Model 3 is only 137,000, and there have been more than dozens of doubts about its "vehicle loss of control" by Chinese car owners.
Such a high proportion also suggests that things may not be as simple as Tesla's official statement that "there is no abnormality in the background data, there is no problem with the vehicle, and the owner misoperates the vehicle".
A video uploaded by Douyin users shows a woman sitting on the roof of a Tesla Model 3 car in Anyang, Henan province, on March 9, holding a speaker to protect her rights.
In black and white letters on the body of the car, it said, "Tesla brakes failed", and a recording of a car with a Tesla Model 3's brakes failed during Chinese New Year, causing a traffic accident and nearly killing a family of four was played on a loop over the loudspeaker.
This matter also caused a lot of onlookers on the scene, at the same time caused the heated attention and discussion of netizens.
According to Ms. Zhang, on February 21, Ms. Zhang and her family drove the Tesla Model 3 for a trip, but the driver was her father. Her father saw the traffic light in the distance and naturally lifted his foot from the switch, but the speed of the vehicle did not slow down.
The vehicle rear-ended a number of vehicles in front of it at a high rate of speed and finally came to a stop by hitting a concrete barrier on the side of the road.
In addition to causing major damage to several cars, Ms. Zhang's parents were also injured and hospitalized.
So Ms. Zhang asked Tesla's delivery center for an explanation.
Instead, Tesla officials gave her some very official numbers and said they needed to get in touch with someone in the Shanghai headquarters.
At present, Zhang's question has not been solved, and Shanghai Tesla has not responded.
It's also worth noting that the number of Tesla "out of control" complaints has now climbed to dozens by 2020.
Therefore, ordinary consumers, car owners and even Tesla manufacturers should not regard the incident as an ordinary accident or a "wok dumping" incident.
Instead, we should take a responsible and rigorous attitude and explain the exact reasons for the runaway causes of the vehicles, so as to avoid their recurrence in the future.
Not, as Tesla claims time and time again, "no driver was detected pressing the brake pedal."
At the same time, as for the so-called "brake failure" problem of Tesla owners, many netizens on the Internet also "spoke out", saying that the brake, as a mechanical structure of the car, is very likely to "fail".
Therefore, the question of "brake failure" of Tesla may be caused by the owner's misoperation.
However, there have been so many Tesla owners in China who have used their own experiences and accidents to accuse Tesla of "brake failure and automatic acceleration", which should be followed up and verified by a more authoritative investigation and testing agency, rather than letting Tesla "act as both referee and athlete".