A Tesla driver in Pasadena drove through a wall and landed in a pool after they hit the accelerator

[IcyPeas]

"Car-pool" rescue: A Tesla driver in Pasadena drove through a wall and landed in a pool after they hit the accelerator instead of the brakes, officials say
https://abc7.la/3GVZSgG

(short video in link also.... shows the wall that the Tesla drove through):

https://abc7.com/pasadena-accident-tesla-in-pool-car-lands-california-blvd/12684870/

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[The Unmitigated Gall]

1. Yeah, they'll do that.

[beaglelover]

2. I have no idea how any driver can be this incompetent. The driver should lose their

license for a while or at least be required to go back to driving school.

[WarGamer]

6. I've always been curious...

How do you keep your Tesla from going rogue and jumping off a cliff... or into a swimming pool?

Does it ever drive itself to the Ferrari dealer to watch "Showroom Window p0rn"??

[Effete Snob]

7. It's just a mistake

Pedal misapplication happens in all kinds of cars.

The person mistakenly believes they have their foot on the brake, and so they keep pressing harder.

It's really not a matter of incompetence, it is just a simple perceptual error which occurred at that moment, and which unfortunately generates a positive feedback loop.

[Sogo]

3. The fact that it was a Tesla adds to the sensationalism,

but the fact is that the person could have been driving a Pinto, and with the same mistake, have the same accident.

[ProfessorGAC]

4. A Pinto?

I had one of those. 1973 Runabout. (The model that WASN'T a hatchback.)
Acceleration was so low that you could time zero to 60 on a watch without a second hand!
The only way that car could do 90mph was by dropping it out of a plane.
I drove it until my second year out of college, replacing it with a Cougar XR7. But, for what it was, it was a perfectly acceptable car.

[Sogo]

5. I'm glad that we're all old enough here to know what a Pinto is !!

LOL!!

[Effete Snob]

13. And lived to tell about it

A lot of folks didn’t.

[NutmegYankee]

15. Wasn't that the car with the built-in safety feature road flare?

You know, to let everyone behind the crash know a rear-end collision had occurred?

[beaglelover]

8. When I was a kid we had a Pinto as well. A red hatchback one. My Dad bought it when we moved

back to the USA from the UK in 1971.

[ProfessorGAC]

9. Mine Was Red!

White vinyl top.
Had a 75w per channel cassette/radio in the glove compartment.
Had some fun in that car.

[CentralMass]

10. I owned a Pinto. It was a good reliable little car.

[ProfessorGAC]

12. I Sold Mine To A Younger Cousin

She drove it for 6 or 7 years. So, the family got 10 years out of car under 2 grand new.

[roamer65]

14. And highly flammable.

[ironflange]

11. Mrs. Ironflange had a Pinto

A light blue '76 sedan with the V6 in it. That thing would go like spit, it was seriously overpowered.