Honey I’m home, literally in the new Taycan

[Carlton Banks]

Whoops

https://youtu.be/cGcIFgAzJR8

[Poshbury]

What a bizarre incident.

[can't remember]

What he is going to fork out on his insurance excess could have paid for a decent phone for his mum to film his home coming.

[67Dino]

“Lights, lights, where’s the button for the lights? Ah, this one has an ‘L’ on it, I’ll try that”

<whoosh>
<smash>

“Nope, that was Launch”

[anonymous-user]

How on earth could that happen?

[HayesDC2]

Wonder if they were anticipating a hill start and gave it a little too much.

[Jader1973]

A much quicker, more refined, and environmentally friendly way of writing off cars than with an ICE car.

[Ambleton]

Its a good point about writing off vehicles and crashes etc.

I'm not up to date with current EV regs, but there must be designated "safe zones" and standard emergency shut off procedures and "killing a live car" by now.

But when EVs started to get popular i know it caused a massive headache for emergency services, especially when there has been an accident and people were trapped inside.

Where can you cut without getting fried? Are the batteries intact? Are there any damaged cells causing thermal runaway, is there any potential fluids around? Can we use water to extinguish a fire?

Its the same for towing or recovering a crash damaged vehicle.

There will always be a transition period, but when your dealing with >700V its not quite the same as licking a 9V battery

[anonymous-user]

That is quite impressive

[TheRainMaker]

That’s all a bit odd, as the car pulls away the brake lights flash

Some how I think a foot might have slipped, no idea how though.

[MiniMan64]

Why was it being filmed? Seems a bit suspect?

[TheOctaneAddict]

I suspect they though they were in reverse, pressed the pedal and nothing happened. Pressed it some more and then panicked as it shot off.

[SidewaysSi]

Love it. I knew electric cars are dangerous to humanity.

[SS2.]

'Watch this..'

[Alex_225]

It's all round a very weird incident. Could be that they came off the throttle, panicked thinking it would roll and went back on the throttle by mistake but pressed it down like the brake.

Either way, they're a bit of a muppet.

[essayer]

Thought it was in R, was actually in D, didn’t creep because of the hill so pressed a bit harder and WHEEEE

[Dapster]

Maybe the driver was confused by the silence into thinking the car was off and (perhaps reaching into the back or across to the passenger side) pressed the throttle causing the car to lurch forward. Once it took off the driver absolutely didn't then get back on the brakes so must have been totally disorientated. That could have been nasty - anyone on the pavement or coming out of the front door would have been toast.

[Jader1973]

Ambleton said:

Its a good point about writing off vehicles and crashes etc.

I'm not up to date with current EV regs, but there must be designated "safe zones" and standard emergency shut off procedures and "killing a live car" by now.

But when EVs started to get popular i know it caused a massive headache for emergency services, especially when there has been an accident and people were trapped inside.

Where can you cut without getting fried? Are the batteries intact? Are there any damaged cells causing thermal runaway, is there any potential fluids around? Can we use water to extinguish a fire?

Its the same for towing or recovering a crash damaged vehicle.

There will always be a transition period, but when your dealing with >700V its not quite the same as licking a 9V battery

We had 2 EV evaluation vehicles at work. They were only allowed to be used in a certain area close to the office because the local fire brigade and police had been briefed about what to do, and there was an A4 sheet in the glovebox which was to be given to whichever emergency service turned up first if it was involved in an accident.

It seemed to boil down to “pull this cut off switch and don’t cut the orange cables”.

[Alex@POD]

MiniMan64 said:

Why was it being filmed? Seems a bit suspect?

That's someone filming a CCTV recording on their phone.
ETA: there are other versions of this video where you see the edge of the monitor, and the neighbours wondering what just happened.

[Mouse Rat]

Always a risk with dozy drivers in automatics.