There was an update where the hours of water was mostly due to the car being
flat on the ground and little bits of fire continuing to come back for some
time. They said the 4 hours were basically somebody standing around with a hose
cooling things off over and over.
I used autopilot on a Tesla 2 years ago, it required you to turn it on, not
unlike cruise control and if your hands came off the wheel for longer than 20
or 30 seconds it would kick out. IIRC at some point it would pull over and stop.
I wonder if the driver set the cruise control not realizing that it wasn't
autopilot. The crash occurred pretty after they set off.
-Curt
On Friday, April 23, 2021, 4:01:16 PM EDT, Randy Bennell
<rbenn...@bennell.ca> wrote:
Yes, I know that, but I have not read all of the posts lately. I may have
missed some of it.
Does anyone have any idea how the Tesla system works? Is the software (or
whatever is needed) built in to the car so that the Doctor might have thought
he had it even if he did not? Could Tesla have inadvertently activated it and
then turned it off when they discovered their error? The whole thing just
seems so odd if there was no one in the driver's seat. Maybe the driver was not
wearing a seat belt and got thrown into the backseat or the passenger seat?
The whole story just raises a lot of questions.
As to the water, I am sure that I read some interview with the fire chief who
said that they were told to use water. Maybe the water cools the battery which
has as much of an influence on stopping the battery fire out as foam might as
foam would on a normal fire as foam would smother a fire if I am not mistaken.
Randy
On 23/04/2021 2:44 PM, Curt Raymond wrote:
This is the case we've been talking about for the last week...
-Curt
On Friday, April 23, 2021, 3:40:05 PM EDT, Randy Bennell via Mercedes
<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
What do you folks think of the crash in Texas recently, where the
Doctor and a woman will killed when his Tesla went off the road and hit
a tree and caught fire?
The Firemen say the Doctor was in the back seat and the woman in the
front passenger seat. The folks at the restaurant they had just been in
said they were talking about testing the self driving function. Musk
says the car was not equipped with that option.
The fire department says it took 32,000 gallons of water to extinguish
the fire and keep it extinguished.
Maybe the good Doctor had a bit too much wine with his dinner?
Randy
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