Tesla has delivered about 10 or so models of its $100,000 roadster so far. Well, #6 of the 10 was crashed shortly after it was delivered to an unnamed private owner. Many thought the driver of the crashed black green beauty was Darryl Siry, Tesla’s Vice President of Marketing. Siry later told Wired.com that #6 had been delivered to the customer shortly before the accident.
“It was a Tesla customer who got into that accident. We’re aware of it because we service our vehicles” he said.

That’s nice. But what’s more interesting is that witnesses say that that the cause of the accident was due to the fact that the Tesla roadster had gone “unnoticed” because of its silent powertrain. Not to mention the airbags didn’t deploy either.

 

Well that sucks... So how do you crash a car because it's too quiet? i.e. the car was moving without the driver knowing??

 

Interesting.

 

Looks like Geary St. in San Francisco.

Jim

 

What a shame. It looks like a low-speed crash.

 

Was the driver blind that he needed aural cues as to what was around him? Lame excuse.

 

That's one hell of an expensive mistake!

 

Car is low and it's easy for it to go unnoticed without engine noise.

I hope there isn't a backlash of bad news on these Tesla. Especially the airbag thing. Nothing is ever perfect on new models and the crash doesn't look like it should trigger airbags anyways.

 

True, the damage is above the bumper for the most part, I wouldn't expect the airbags to deploy anyway.