The incident occurred Wednesday early morning in a town 40 km (25 miles) south of Amsterdam.
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‘Our thoughts go out to the family, ‘ Tesla said, adding ‘we are working with the authorities to establish the full facts surrounding the accident’.
The driver of a Tesla Model S electric vehicle has reportedly died in a crash in the Netherlands this morning – and firefighters on the scene were nervous about being electrocuted as they fought the fire.
In addition to cost-cutting, Musk likewise wishes to push to provide “every auto we possibly can”, to help fulfill Tesla’s objective of providing 80,000 vehicles this year.
The NTSB is investigating the fatal crash in Florida where a Model S driver using Autopilot slammed into the side of a tractor-trailer. The car’s automatic emergency-braking sensors didn’t detect the white side of tractor trailer in the bright sunshine.
Newspaper De Telegraaf reported the car’s battery was broken, and part of it caught fire and was hard to extinguish.
Tesla officials are saying that the Autopilot program played no role in the most recent Model S crash. The auto caught fire nearly immediately and firefights faced extreme difficulty in trying to extinguish the flames.
Tesla managed to endure a public relations nightmare in June after an OH man was killed driving his Model S. The causes aren’t known, and it’s not clear why the built-in safety features on the Tesla did not save the 53-year-old man’s life. Part of the battery remained inside the vehicle, the paper said, leading to the fears of electrocution.
Emergency medical personnel say the auto was in such a mangled state that firefighters were afraid to recover the body because of electrocution fears.
USA federal regulators also recorded two fires involving the Model S, one each in the states of Washington and Tennessee in 2013. The system may be overridden by the driver.
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Tesla says Autopilot is a driver-assist system and the human driver must be ready to take control at any time, but it allows drivers to take their hands off the wheel for minutes at a time.
