Tesla Inc (TSLA)

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Despite the revelation that Ms Chao was intoxicated, not surprising given she had been celebrating, there is indication that her Tesla did in fact glitch and drive her into the pond.

The report said Chao left the lodge at 11:37 p.m. and, wrapped in a blanket, got in her Tesla. She apparently intended to drive to another house in the compound. Surveillance video shows the car lurching forward, then reversing over a limestone block wall at the edge of the pond.

Right there, the Tesla lurched forward suggesting that she had in fact put it into drive and then suddenly it reversed; this is not unlike the behavior of another Tesla accident posted below that suddenly surged forward before reversing itself.
Its likely this behavior, combined with possible distance she reversed, that likely prompted investigators to consider the accident to be strange from the onset. The "sudden" revelation that she was intoxicated would have been known by investigators within the first 24 hours but only recently confirmed by blood work.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240321163729/https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/03/21/she-stayed-on-the-phone-as-her-tesla-sank-report-on-death-of-mitch-mcconnells-sister-in-law/

At least 12 complaints filed with the Department of Transportation and first reported by Business Insider are related to how Tesla vehicles are put into reverse. Seven users have reported confusion with the gearshift design, resulting in them sometimes putting the car into drive when they intended to shift to reverse, or vice versa. Five other complaints were from people who said their Teslas appeared to switch between drive and reverse without warning, according to Business Insider.

5 complaints have been filed with the DoT claiming their Teslas shifted themselves from drive to reverse without warning. I dont know if the following accident is one of those five, but below is video evidence of a Tesla lurching forward into a car as the driver attempted to park. Then the Tesla suddenly reverses itself and drives itself backwards until it hits a neighbor garage. This would be like Ms Chaos Tesla reversing into the Pond. Media indicated that EMI may have caused the accident as i have indicated may have also impacted Ms Chao's Tesla! EVs and especially Teslas are a danger to the public.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240315162437/https://www.foxbusiness.com/fox-news-us/angela-chao-death-tesla-spotlight-investigators-maintain-silence

Heres an example of it being claimed in the media that electromagnetic interference is causing Teslas to drive on their own without driver input. Case study of where this has been observed in other EVs posted below. Video of the Tesla driving itself is here:

Video Footage:

https://youtu.be/AuViTuuYgpg

For an expert opinion, KXAN took the case to Dragan Djurdjanovic. A professor in mechanical engineering, Djurdjanovic looked into similar allegations against Tesla around 2008. The expert said it's very possible that electromagnetic interference between wires caused the accident.

Its EMI but not from inside the car. Instead its coming from outside the car which is why Teslas only go out of control like this during geomagnetic unrest. Also in 2008 it was Toyotas that were having problems with SUA.
https://carbuzz.com/news/tesla-driver-claims-model-y-caused-massive-crash-on-its-own

Not only can low-frequency magnetic fields pose health hazards to human beings, but they can also affect some electric control units (ECUs) in a vehicle. An ECU that consists of Hall-effect sensors located near the battery pack or powertrain modules could be affected by the low-frequency magnetic field if no sufficient shielding is provided.

https://incompliancemag.com/article/low-frequency-magnetic-fields-in-electric-vehicles/

The electromagnetic  interference  affects  the  automobile  electronic  control  system  mainly  in  two  ways:  one is  to  affect  the  input  signal  of  the  sensor  of  the  electronic  control  system,  causing  distortion  and resulting  in  electric  control  signal  where  the  ECU  output  does  not  match  the  driver's  intention,  which leads  to  the  wrong  operation  of  the  actuator;  the  other  is  to  interfere  the  ECU  output  signal  to  result  in its deviation,  misleading the operation of  the actuator.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/346368508_Special_Investigation_and_Countermeasure_Suggestions_on_Electric_Vehicle_out-of-control_Accidents