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FrodosPet

(5,169 posts)
Sat Sep 10, 2016, 04:32 PM Sep 2016

Dutch police closes probe into fatal Tesla crash

Dutch police closes probe into fatal Tesla crash

http://phys.org/news/2016-09-dutch-police-probe-fatal-tesla.html

September 9, 2016


Dutch police closed a probe Friday into a fatal crash involving a Tesla, accepting the US electric car firm's findings that the Model S sedan was not on auto-pilot when it smashed into a tree.

Tesla said the driver—who was killed in the accident—was in control of the car which crashed at high speed near the central Dutch town of Baarn on Wednesday.

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Dutch media reported the man killed on Wednesday was 53, from the town of Hilversum. The Dutch news agency ANP said it took fire officers several hours to recover his body as they feared being electrocuted.

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Tesla is also probing an incident in France in August when a Model S sedan caught fire during a test drive in the southwestern town of Bayonne.

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Dutch police closes probe into fatal Tesla crash (Original Post) FrodosPet Sep 2016 OP
Tesla has bad chronic problems with suspension failures BlueStreak Sep 2016 #1
 

BlueStreak

(8,377 posts)
1. Tesla has bad chronic problems with suspension failures
Sat Sep 10, 2016, 04:42 PM
Sep 2016

There have been several dozen cases where the wheels have come off the cars or literally had the wheels "milled" in half by broken suspension components. In many of these cases, it clear must have been the cause, rather than a by-product of the accident. I don't know it that was the casein the Dutch accident, but the wheels were separated very much like the other cases. You would expect this in the front half of the car that impacted the tree, but the rear suspension was also broken. One of the wheels was a long distance from the impact point.

The company is denying they have a chronic suspension problem but this is apparently under investigation by the NHTSA. The Dutch have a strong incentive to close the investigation quickly because Tesla has a "factory" in the Netherlands. This is one of those fake factories designed to avoid Euro duties. Nonetheless it employs a few hundred Dutch, so they are very happy to help in the cover-up.

Here is a website with dozens of examples of failed suspensions. At least half of these have pathology such that the most likely scenario is that the failed suspension CAUSED the accident.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/136377865@N05/sets/72157658490111523/?view=md

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