Mission Local – Tesla crashes into Mission District plant store
Editors note: its hard to accept that some believe that Tesla is creating a robotaxi system when their automated driving system simply does not work.
See original article by Lydia Chávez at Mission Local
A Tesla crashed into The Mellow SF plant store at the corner of 21st and San Carlos in the Mission early Sunday afternoon.
No injuries occurred.
The accident occurred at 12:15 p.m., according to Lorena Velasco, who owns the store with her husband, David.
“We’ll have to redo the brick and fix our metal gates,” she added.
Employees were upset enough that they closed the store at 2 p.m., Valesco wrote.
Elizabeth Creely, a Mission resident, was riding her bike west on 21st Street when she came upon the accident.
Creely spoke to the driver of the Tesla who said she had her car on auto-pilot to make a right turn onto San Carlos and into her garage. The car, however, wasn’t executing the turn. When the driver went to disengage autopilot, she told Creely, she hit the gas pedal by mistake.
The driver and her husband, who was at the scene, declined to give their names. Those on the scene asked if she needed help, but she declined assistance and appeared unhurt, but shaken, Creely said.
Several employees inside the shop at the time of the accident told Creely that they felt it, but no one was hurt and it appears all of the plants survived.
The store’s camera shows the car crashing into the corner followed by shoppers and others running out as the horn sounds.
The accident is the latest in a string of incidents in which cars have crashed into buildings situated on Mission corners including last week’s incident at the Dovre Club and another last year at a now-closed Chase branch. In both of those instances, there was considerable structural damage.
Although there was a lot of debris from the Tesla, Creely said, there did not seem to be much damage to The Mellow SF.
See original article by Lydia Chávez at Mission Local
