This is legitimately a common cause of crashes in every model of car. People accidentally press the accelerator when they try to press the brake, and when the car speeds up, they press even harder on what they think is the brake but is actually the accelerator. After the crash, the driver often still insists that they were pressing the brake and the car was at fault.
It’s probably even more common in Teslas because the driver doesn’t need to have their foot on either pedal in the time leading up to the incident, increasing the chances that their feet aren’t aligned how they’re used to.
This is legitimately a common cause of crashes in every model of car. People accidentally press the accelerator when they try to press the brake, and when the car speeds up, they press even harder on what they think is the brake but is actually the accelerator. After the crash, the driver often still insists that they were pressing the brake and the car was at fault.
It’s probably even more common in Teslas because the driver doesn’t need to have their foot on either pedal in the time leading up to the incident, increasing the chances that their feet aren’t aligned how they’re used to.