Electric car Tesla Model S again caught fire. The incident occurred on June 16, 2018 in California while driving a car.Tesla (like
iPhones ) sometimes
ignite , and this fact is no surprise to anyone, given the high density and the amount of energy stored by electric car batteries. But this time, the incident was widely publicized by the fact that the vehicle belonged to the company's premium client, British director
Michael Morris (episodes of the House of Cards, Kingdom, 13 Reasons why, Billions series), and Morris’s wife, Actress Mary McCormack, immediately posted a video with a fire in your account on Twitter.
“That's what happened to my husband and his car today. This is in no way an accident, he was just driving along Santa Monica Boulevard. Thanks to the people who paid attention to her husband [to the fire] and told him to stop. Thank God that my three daughters were not in the car ",
- wrote Mary McCormack.
People from a passing car noticed the smoke coming from under the car, and managed to warn the director to stop in time and leave the vehicle. The flames quickly and aggressively engulfed the front of the sedan. Policemen and firefighters arrived at the scene.
Representatives of the company have not yet commented on the possible causes of the ignition of the Tesla Model S, but called the incident "extremely unusual."
Ilon Musk announced internal sabotage in the company
And then on June 19, 2018, like a bolt from the blue,
the news appeared that Ilon Musk wrote a letter to his staff with a very extraordinary statement. The letter said that a traitor was found among the employees who allegedly
changed the code of the operating system inside the cars so that they would catch fire on the conveyor software
that introduced unauthorized changes. It should be noted, although the letter dealt with Tesla
Model 3 , this information takes on a very interesting connotation against the background of the above-mentioned spontaneously ignited Tesla Model S director.
According to Ilona Mask, one Tesla employee was engaged in large-scale sabotage, as well as illegally distributing confidential business information. Mask noted that the employee made changes to the code of the operating system on the assembly machines, and also transferred confidential company data to a third party. The company is trying to find out if he had any accomplices.
“The scale of his actions is not yet clear, however, what he already confessed to sounds pretty bad,”
Musk quotes the letter from CNBC . In the same letter, Musk asked to inform him by e-mail any information that could shed light on the detected diversion.
A publicly disclosed report states that an employee suspected of sabotage explained his actions with discontent in the long absence of a career upgrade.
If we consider a critically occurring story, it becomes clear that there is no need to hurry with conclusions. After all, we can talk about both the act of industrial espionage and sabotage on the part of major producers of vehicles using traditional fuel, and the banal negligence of an individual employee, who will now be tried to scapegoat.
After the start of production, Tesla cars had more than once been involved in accidents, in particular, because the owners relied too much on the “autopilot” function. There were cases with the ignition of rechargeable batteries, the cause of which was their physical destruction due to an accident, mechanical damage by third-party objects caught under the wheels of the car, and a short circuit during charging. After such cases, Tesla significantly improved the protection of the battery compartment using aluminum and titanium plates, and also repeatedly reworked the software that controls the battery.
UPD Post and title adjusted in favor of a more accurate version of the citation from the portal arstechnica.com. Thanks
sith for the tip.
UPD 2 User
Fandir provided a link to a resource where
events are described from the point of view of the disgraced employee. It is obvious that the participants in the conflict are interested in overtightening the blankets, each in their own direction, and there may be more than two parties to this matter. Therefore, to find out what really happened, you will have to wait for the start of the trial.