The driver died at the scene.
A citizen of the Netherlands died after the electric car Tesla crashed into a tree. The accident occurred on Wednesday, September 7, at about 06:00 on the highway in 40 kilometres East of Amsterdam.
As noted, the Tesla driver died at the scene. Arrived at the scene, firefighters took about two hours to retrieve the body of 53-year-old man from the car, Reuters reports. They feared that after the collision with the tree the car is under high voltage.
On a place of accident there arrived representatives of the company Tesla Motors, they began investigating the circumstances of the incident. Unknown at this time whether you have turned on the autopilot function.
This summer it became known that the US cars Tesla activated mechanism avtoupravlenie were invited to several road accidents. So, on 6 July, the autopilot crossover Tesla Model X has not coped with management and crashed into a highway guardrail. In accident nobody suffered.
July 1, the national administration of safety of traffic (NHTSA) began investigating the first fatal accident: autopilot electric car did not react to the tractor trailer, causing the car crashed into him at full speed. 7 Jun X the owner of Tesla, said that the SUV began spontaneous acceleration in a supermarket Parking lot and crashed into a building.
On April 22 The Wall Street Journal published an article in which the electric crossover production company Tesla Motors raskritikoval for poor build quality and problems with hardware and software part. So, one of the buyers during the movement refused the autopilot, the driver had to urgently take it over.
