Recently, a surveillance video filmed on August 24 circulated on the Chinese social media platform “Xiaohongshu” (Little Red Book). In the video, a Tesla suddenly lost control and “crashed through a wall” while entering an underground parking lot, attracting attention from netizens.
The video, recorded in the afternoon of August 24 at an unspecified location, shows a black Tesla entering the B2 level of an underground parking lot. While turning downhill, the car scraped against a wall, then made a sharp 90-degree right turn. Despite not traveling at a high speed, the car crashed straight into the front wall, with half of the front end embedded into the wall. Next to the incident site, a wall bears the words “Elevator to Movie Theater Lobby” in simplified Chinese characters.
After the incident, a man and a woman accompanied by a child stood by the car observing the situation, but it is unknown if they are the car owners.
The video sparked discussions online, with netizens questioning if the parking lot was a “shoddy construction,” a “paper mache parking space,” or if the wall was made of “plasterboard.”
Some netizens made light of the situation, joking that “Tesla is built too solidly,” “Tesla’s safety is being tested,” and “When American cars meet domestically produced cement walls, the quality is clear at a glance.”