Dramatic footage has emerged out of Taiwan showing a white Tesla Model 3 slamming into a truck that had overturned on a highway.
Reports assert that things started on Monday morning when a box truck carrying salad and breakfast ingredients flipped over on National Freeway 1.
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While traffic near the truck slowed to avoid hitting it, a white Tesla Model 3 was captured by surveillance cameras smashing right into it. Local news outlet CNA reports the driver had enabled “a vehicle assist system” and expected the car to brake by itself.
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“The police said that the driver of the Tesla electric vehicle, Huang, claimed to have the vehicle assist system turned on, and the speed was fixed at 110 kilometers per hour,” the article says, when translated to English. “He thought that the car itself would detect the obstacle and automatically brake, but he was surprised that the car did not slow down.”
While it remains to be seen if that means Autopilot was enabled, one would have expected the car’s autonomous emergency braking (AEB) to kick in. Just before the Tesla hit the truck, a man can be seen trying to flag down the driver but they failed to respond. It looks as though either the driver or the car itself hit the brakes roughly 40-50 feet before the truck, but by that time, it was too little, too late. It has also been claimed that the car’s airbags were not deployed in the crash.
Fortunately, it is reported that no one was injured in the accident.