Tesla Model S involved in 'unintended acceleration' incident

I would guess, like most people, she judges engine response by ear. And, because of the lack of noise, she accelerated thinking she had not pressed the pedal hard enough. Mix that with the different behavior around not moving when the pedal is not pressed (unless they changed that setting), and she just did the wrong thing at the wrong time. It's just sad that, for liability reasons, it is better to force someone to prove you wrong, than just fixing the issue.

This news comes up a day after GM announces that they are directly competing with Tesla.

Last time the whole debate was raging , GM was in the crapper and Toyota was eating their lunch.

im just sayin.....

edit: GM <-> Tesla Discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6441472

More like individual consumer claims that his Tesla 'magically' accelerated during his wife's first drive of the vehicle.

Despite the car's logs showing clearly that the pedal was depressed at the time of the 'accident', individual consumer claims that his wife didn't depress the pedal.

Investigation underway to determine whether or not individual consumer's insurance will cover the 'accident'.

This seems like bullshit. Whether or not it's bullshit with an agenda I can't say, but it's still bullshit.

I thought they had safe guards against this! like lack of battery power. ;P