Someone in my neighborhood just posted this to Ring Neighbors. Sorry there is no part 2 yet.
https://neighbors.ring.com/event/V0ljybvTxV
https://neighbors.ring.com/event/V0ljybvTxV
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Tesla Crashes Into Home
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Mike A.
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- May 6, 2017
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The web site states "Tesla couldn’t brake"...looks to me more like the driver was accelerating instead of braking, because it sure wasn't coasting down a big hill !
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It looks like the driver hits the pedal at full throttle, just before entering the jumpy driveway. It could be a medical issue, or an Evel Knievel act
CaptainCrunch
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Parley
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The lady with the Lei was sitting in the passenger seat. Glad to see that the 56 Chevy Nomad was spared.
StevenFromTexas
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Everyone that came out of that car looks the age of someone that normally drives a Cadillac.
Part 2 video below
"All 3 victims were stable and released same night or next day. Driver suffered a broken neck. No airbags deployed. Driver reported stuck accelerator and brakes not responding. Possibly autopilot took over? Car parked inside garage was destroyed and knocked down bathroom wall, toilet, and base of sink and the garage door entry wall was damaged."
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"All 3 victims were stable and released same night or next day. Driver suffered a broken neck. No airbags deployed. Driver reported stuck accelerator and brakes not responding. Possibly autopilot took over? Car parked inside garage was destroyed and knocked down bathroom wall, toilet, and base of sink and the garage door entry wall was damaged."
Ring Neighbors
What's that I smell? Ah, methinks it's an impending lawsuit!Part 2 video below
"All 3 victims were stable and released same night or next day. Driver suffered a broken neck. No airbags deployed. Driver reported stuck accelerator and brakes not responding. Possibly autopilot took over? Car parked inside garage was destroyed and knocked down bathroom wall, toilet, and base of sink and the garage door entry wall was damaged."
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Smilingreen
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I wonder if the drivers "Drive it like you just stole it" T Shirt got blood on it?
There's zero chance the brakes "failed" along with a "stuck" throttle by wire.
My mom was only 55 when she floored the Camry and sent it into the house, hitting the washing machine. She claimed her sandals caused her difficulty with the pedals, but I don't buy it.
It's clear there was a car parked in the garage considering there's no chance that garage door alone could have stopped the car.
People's egos are too big to just say "I'm too old and too drunk to drive".
I don't own a Tesla, but I don't think you can enable autopilot while stopped in your driveway. It requires seeing lane markings and the vehicle to already be driving.
My mom was only 55 when she floored the Camry and sent it into the house, hitting the washing machine. She claimed her sandals caused her difficulty with the pedals, but I don't buy it.
It's clear there was a car parked in the garage considering there's no chance that garage door alone could have stopped the car.
People's egos are too big to just say "I'm too old and too drunk to drive".
I don't own a Tesla, but I don't think you can enable autopilot while stopped in your driveway. It requires seeing lane markings and the vehicle to already be driving.
Smilingreen
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I did that once back in 1980 with an old VW Beetle I had. Flew up the driveway, hit the brake pedal, but it went to the floor and I crashed through the right hand side of the garage wall and the front end of the car ended up resting over the basement steps. It was my fault for going too fast, my fault for not fixing the soft brake pedal before.
It was the cars fault for breaking through the side of the garage wall into the basement stairwell. 
No alcohol or mind altering drugs were involved..... It was my parents fault for building a wall there to begin with.....
looney2ns
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Yeah, the driver most likely miss judged the torque that an EV has, and it got away from him.
I did that once back in 1980 with an old VW Beetle I had. Flew up the driveway, hit the brake pedal, but it went to the floor and I crashed through the right hand side of the garage wall and the front end of the car ended up resting over the basement steps. It was my fault for going too fast, my fault for not fixing the soft brake pedal before.
I drove a '69 Beetle in high school. One time a pebble wedged into the gap in the throttle opening and when I let off, the car kept going. I made an unscheduled and unannounced left turn into a parking lot and did some circles until I could figure out what happened. Modern cars hang the throttle pedal from above, not a slit in the floor below.
I was 16 when my dad's '57 Ford with 312 Thunderbird Special V-8 and 4 barrel lost the throttle return spring anchor at one end after I floored it (too hard, probably), the engine vacuum held it wide open. I made it to about 70 in a 35 very quickly but turned off the key and jammed on the brakes. It was Ford's first year with the linkage from the throttle connected to the top of the pedal, not coming up through the floorboard, IIRC, and it was laying on the floor once I got stopped.
Holley made that low profile 4 bbl especially for the low, front-hinged hood on the '57 Ford and thereafter all Holley carbs were low profile.
I popped the hood to assess what happened and it was then that my knees began quivering super bad when it hit me what had just happened and that I avoided a serious accident. That was my first car driving "scare" if you will.
Holley made that low profile 4 bbl especially for the low, front-hinged hood on the '57 Ford and thereafter all Holley carbs were low profile.
I popped the hood to assess what happened and it was then that my knees began quivering super bad when it hit me what had just happened and that I avoided a serious accident. That was my first car driving "scare" if you will.
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Sybertiger
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Hmm, around 6:30pm local time....dressed in lei and maybe "Hawaiian" type clothes. Methinks someone was having party. You know...old folks like to party a bit earlier than the rest of us. Maybe alcohol involved?
I did that once back in 1980 with an old VW Beetle I had. Flew up the driveway, hit the brake pedal, but it went to the floor and I crashed through the right hand side of the garage wall and the front end of the car ended up resting over the basement steps. It was my fault for going too fast, my fault for not fixing the soft brake pedal before.
I also drove a Volvo for a week with no primary brakes. Used the handbrake until I fixed the leak. Kids and very old folk seem to take risks that others don't.