Following an incident in 2016 which involved a Tesla S driver who was killed after leaving his car unattended in its so-called “Autopilot” mode, Tesla is in the headlines for another crash. This accident that happened in Florida, US, ended up in the unfortunate loss of the driver’s life as the responders were not able to open the fancy doors of the Tesla Model S.
The fatal accident which took the life of the 40-year-old driver in the United States is the first major accident that happened while a computer was at the wheel. The Tesla Model S which he drove was controlled by Tesla’s autonomous driving system, Autopilot, at the time of the accident, raising questions over the reliability of Autonomous driving systems.
One person was killed when her BMW X6 fell from the 6th floor of a multi-story parking garage on Khalifa Street in Abu Dhabi.
It’s fog season again here in the UAE, and for some reason, drivers here never learn. About 20 people were injured, one critically, in several crashes on Thursday morning on the Abu Dhabi-Dubai road after heavy fog reduced visibility for several hours into daylight.
In the Gran Turismo Polonia motor rally in Poland yesterday, the driver of a Koenigsegg CCX lost control and crashed straight into the crowd.
Last Saturday’s NASCAR Daytona race, ended with several race-cars destroyed in a huge crash, with bits of the cars flying into the grandstands, leaving at least 11 fans injured.
If you think finding a Dirham on the floor is lucky, see what happens to this guy in Russia, who has an experience equivalent to finding a million bucks under his shoe. In Russia, most drivers have dash cams installed in their cars to basically fight off the motherland’s notorious corrupt traffic police or scammers trying to extort money out of drivers. With a country that big, some crazy footage is bound to be caught on video and here’s one fine example of a head-on accident, except that no one is hurt?
One man died and 61 people were injured when a multiple-car pile-up happened on the Dubai-Abu Dhabi highway on the 2nd of April. The huge crash involved 127 cars on the road heading into Dubai, early in the morning.
Despite advances in safety among compact cars, research is continuing to prove that passengers in a 4×4 are more likely to survive than those in a small compact car in a high-speed crash. But it seems there is legislation coming that would make SUVs “softer” in a bid to reduce the damage done when retards take out innocent people with their tinted 4x4s while talking on the phone with one foot on the dash. Of course, if you drive a small car, you can practice defensive driving instead, to save your money and your life.
Renault was pulling off a publicity stunt at the Dubai Autodrome, where Mohammed Bin Sulayem was going to drive a Renault F1 car in straight-line drag-races against various supercars one after the other. We didn’t attend because it was simply a cheesy publicity stunt, but as soon as Bin Sulayem hit the track against a Ford GT, the car promptly spun out into the wall along the pit-lane, and a wheel came off from the crash. A Renault statement apparently says the car is “lightly damaged” and he is fine. More here.