This is often the issue. Not in this case though. He had his license for 24 years, while driving from the south of Germany to the Netherlands back and forth twice a month. He never had an accident before.
Nope, he drove 80km/h with traction control, but lost consciousness somehow. No lines on the road (out in the German countryside) so no line assist. Car went straight when there was a very mild turn, so he drove off the road, into some uphill ridge whi h launched him, woke up when flying through the air after which he landed in a bunch of trees.
This is where he landed. He luckily only had 4 broken ribs.
Friend of mine bought an EV. Didn’t even last a month. He landed in a tree.
Lemmy: Capitalism caused this.
In a socialist system cars would be tree proof.
What was the issue? Do you know?
I think the tree didn’t give way when it should have and damaged it a bit, hard to tell though
Handing out driving licences like they were sweets instead of actually testing people’s ability to drive, maybe?
It can’t possibly be that. We have to abolish trees - that’s the real answer!
We’re working on it.
This is often the issue. Not in this case though. He had his license for 24 years, while driving from the south of Germany to the Netherlands back and forth twice a month. He never had an accident before.
I stand corrected!
Lost consciousness for a bit. Unknown why.
Probably the electromagnetic fields of EV! EMF is very bad with those! (/s)
Not really the fault of the EV then tho :D
No, but it’s still a factor why they may not last forever XD never underestimate human error.
My car wouldn’t have done that. Had I fallen unconscious it would either follow the road or stop
But that’s also not because it’s electric.
Probably turned off traction control and floored it. EVs have some pretty solid acceleration and weight a bit more than their ICE counterparts.
Nope, he drove 80km/h with traction control, but lost consciousness somehow. No lines on the road (out in the German countryside) so no line assist. Car went straight when there was a very mild turn, so he drove off the road, into some uphill ridge whi h launched him, woke up when flying through the air after which he landed in a bunch of trees. This is where he landed. He luckily only had 4 broken ribs.
That sucks I hope he’s good.
Jeez, he’s lucky to be alive at all.
Daaaamn crazy story. Scary you can just tap out like that. Good on him he didn’t get injured too much
Sad to see an i5 in that condition :(
I’m sure if we spend enough time working on it, we can figure out how this is all OPEC’s fault. /s (jeeze tho I hope your friend was okay!)
He luckily only has 4 broken ribs.
Goddamn planned obsolescence.
*planted obsolescence
“landed”?
Yeah, got launched when drifting off the road
Then the wheels just fell off. Stupid woke EVs are built to fail.
Usually they build them so the wheels don’t fall off.
Pretty sure they’re being facetious
So was I
Then explain that pic 😤