I have driven a Tesla Y. And more importantly, I had been folllowing a Tesla Y, you can't see your own brake light when you are driving. And His brake light is not on for the first 8 seconds when he was supposedly park.
This is how Tesla Y Brake Light Work
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When the Brake is on, the light in Yellow Circle is flashed Red. And the brake light is briger in red than the Instrument Light.
Now the First 8 second of the video
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Beside 0:01 which I can't say for 100% sure the brake light was not on, tell me on which second the brake light was on??
I don't know whether you had even driven before, even with the gear stuck on P, it won't accelerate, that's true with both Tesla or a normal car, in a normal car, if brake was NOT applied, the car will slow to a stop but will not accelerate. In Tesla if a Tesla is on P and no brake applies, the car will arrest and will stop quicker than a normal car because Tesla uses regenerative braking, which anyone had driven a Tesla knows it's like you tab the brake. It's does not matter whether the bar is on, because when you brake, both brake light should also be on, not on mean no braking, and you can see from the video the vehicle in question either did not have that braking bar on top or it was not on.
On the other hand, the COA of this accident is clearly the car speeding out of control, that mean one way or another, the throttle is left on, as I said, braking has no effect on the car being accelerated. unless you are talking about that car is on a long stretch of downward slope, which I don't see it. Which mean the COA should be throttle jammed either by mechanical fault or software malfunction. Brake fail would not make a car accelerate. Which mean as I point out, it's an odd thing to say by the driver. May be the brake failed on a separate issue, I don't know, but looking at this incident, and the normal driver response would be "The car can't/won't stop accelerating" not the car can't brake, because you can see it pick up quite a lot of speed before it crash.
And as I said, wait for the official report or Tesla release the driver data. We don't know what caused this accident. I am just pointing out what the driver say is odd.
I don't know why you are getting very defensive on this. First of all, Tesla is not even classed at Luxury Vehicle in Australia, it's priced at 70,000 to 90,000 which mean even people on minimum wage (which is A$1100 a week) could afford a Tesla because most dealer offer a 5 years low interest repayment plan. And unfortunately one of my cousin drive a Tesla Y probably the same year as the one in this accident, and I have the unfortunate duty to be his designated driver when he is out drinking, and he drink a lot. On the other hand, as a Crime Against Person detective, I have to investigate any traffic accident resulting in bodily harm, I have been in hundred if not thousand of Traffic Accident and invested them through out my career, do you have any investigative experience on MTA??
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The light highlight in yellow (the Brake Light) would still be on. Whether or not the high bar is on.
I did not troubleshoot anything. I commented on the verifiable fact of whatever happened in the video and what the driver said in response to the video.
As for what caused the car to react like in the video? I don't know, as I said, I wouldn't comment on that until Tesla released the driver data or the police completed the report. If you can trust the cop.