A Tesla’s on-board entrance digicam has captured the second the EV rear-ended a Honda Civic on freeway CA-24 close to Lafayette, California just lately.

The movies had been shared on Twitter by famous hacker and safety researcher GreenTheOnly, who is known to have acquired it from a salvage yard the place this Tesla was sitting.

The usual footage from the entrance of the Tesla exhibits it rushing down one of many middle lanes of the freeway. In accordance with the separate clip that overlays the Tesla’s numerous semi-autonomous visualizations over the video, it’s revealed that the pace differential between the 2 automobiles on the time of the rear-end collision was a surprising 63 mph (101 km/h). Blackbox information from the Tesla confirms it was touring at 136.55 mph (219.7 km/h) in the intervening time of impression.

Watch Additionally: Tesla Model S On Autopilot Crashes Into Dodge Police Car, Driver Admits To Watching A Movie

The video cuts out nearly instantly after the Civic is hit from behind, so it’s arduous to know the way a lot injury was triggered to the 2 automobiles, though we guess they will need to have been totaled.

GreenTheOnly notes that Autopilot disengaged roughly 40 seconds earlier than the crash and the Ahead Collision Warning chime was triggered.

It’s unclear why the motive force of the Tesla continued to speed up after Autopilot had been disabled, the Entrance Collision Warning alarmed them and nonetheless they made no try to brake or swerve out of the best way of the slower-moving Honda. The almost definitely rationalization is that the motive force was distracted however even nonetheless, that doesn’t clarify why they had been driving so quick.

In incidents like this, it will be, , useful to get in contact with a Tesla consultant for a remark, however as Jalopnik notes, the Californian electrical carmaker doesn’t see the necessity to have a press division in any respect.