Tesla plunged into Norway fjord before ‘screaming’ occupants rescued by passing floating sauna
Tesla plunged into Norway fjord before ‘screaming’ occupants rescued by passing floating sauna
The Tesla driver “accidentally hit the gas,” sending the car flying into the frigid waters off of Oslo earlier this week, witnesses told SWNS.
“I don’t think people could hold there more than five minutes in this water, especially with clothes on,” he added. It was very good luck this floating sauna was nearby.”
The sauna boat happened to drift by soon after the Tesla ended up in the water, Oslo police said.
Photos show people on the vessel with towels around their waists pulling the passengers out of the water.
“One of the guests came running and told me a car had landed in the water. I accelerated to full speed in the direction of the people,” the sauna boat’s skipper, Nicholay Nordahl, told Norwegian newspaper VG.
“With the help of two guests, we pulled them up. They were able to warm up in the sauna,” he added.
"It was very good luck this floating sauna was nearby."
Folks, I think we've got ourselves a brand new sentence here.
To anyone wondering. Sauna boats are not common in Norway. It's not "a thing". Please don't add it to the list of Scandinavian stereotypes 🙏
Too late... It's already ingrained in my mind as "of course they do"
Too late I already have. Now I think your whole navy is clothing optional coed sauna boats.
Its true, only about 1 in 5 households own a sauna boat, the rest are govt-owned
So you're telling me people don't drive their sauna boats to their job site in the forest where they rake the forest floor?
I think you mean vacuum
Probably are in Finland, though.
I know they're not actually part of Scandinavia (rather Fenno-Scandinavia), but MAN do they love saunas! They even have a sauna in a Burger King and take sauna tents with them when they go camping!
Not gonna lie, the thought of " Well of course they would have sauna boats" did come to mind.
That's exactly what they would say just to keep all thoee sweet sauna boats to themselves!
Then again, anyone going to Oslo in winter should stop by the floating saunas (preferably Oslo Badstueforening)! I don't see much point in travelling around in a sauna boat, but the floating saunas are among my favourite things about Oslo. :)
It's getting more and more common though.
It’s really common here in Sweden. “Bastuflotte” we call them and there are a couple in every lake around where I live.
Aren't there like a couple dozen of them in Oslofjord?
I expected another story about a Tesla self-driving passengers to their doom. Instead, "the driver accidentally hit the gas pedal", so it being a Tesla is really an irrelevant detail. Would the headline have read "Hyundai plunges into Norway fjord..." if it were a different car.
I downvoted because of this. I don’t like Tesla. But I hate this click baiting and lying to tarnish a reputation. Let them do it themselves. They are doing a good enough job.
It's also the boy-who-cried-wolf syndrome. When you make shit up all the time, no one is going to care when it actually matters.
Self-driving (er, “”self””-driving) didn’t cross my mind actually. I read:
- driver wealthier than average
- not a parent with more than four kids (Tesla doesn’t make minivans) … (wait the X seats up to 7, though that’s uncommon I think)
- driver not in one of the highest death rate cars
I take your point that the benefits of being able to make these assumptions may not outweigh the downside of potentially misleading people on the potential self-driving aspect.
3 years ago, during peak Autopilot hype, the media absolutely would have plastered "AUTOPILOT FAIL?????" all over the headlines. With a quiet retraction the next day with the driver admitting to a manual mistake.
I remember there was one big story about a Tesla that wrapped itself around a tree, caught fire, and occupants died. Instant blame on "Autopilot kills" and "EVs dangerous!!!" even though everyone who actually looked at the facts knew that autopilot won't even activate on that street and it wouldn't automatically go that fast.
A few weeks later post-autopsy, turns out it was a drunk dude showing off his car to his drunk friend, treated a residential road as a drag strip, with predictable results.
Its an electric car thing, they have much higher acceleration than most people are used to so people crash them like this.
Perhaps the Scandinavians are right and saunas are the answer to everything.
Basking in the sauna at sunset in the bay is now in my bucket list
Perhaps?
Oh. I thought, like, the whole company plunged off the side of the pier.
What a shame.
Cracking up picturing you legitimately disappointed, licking finger tip, turning newspaper page
Smoking a pipe, in my underpants, sitting cross-legged wearing bath slippers, in a foul brown armchair, fez on head.
Plunging into icy waters and getting rescued by by a sauna boat is some top shelf karma shit
This has to be the most Nordic title I've ever read.
Well, what about
Volvo plunged into Norway fjord before ‘quietly awkward’ occupants rescued by passing floating sauna
I have so many questions...
Starting from how would the floating sauna propel itself, and where would I get one?
Starting from how would the floating sauna propel itself,
Nowadays that's normally done with a motor.
and where would I get one?
Sauna boats sound much more innovative than "full self-driving".
It's the future. We'll look back and wonder why we thought EVs were a good idea while everyone has at least one sauna boat.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-68177125 video of the rescue
Tesla's come with a feature called obstacle avoidance or something like that which in theory could have prevented this, although even that isn't a guarantee. It's also a feature that can be enabled/disabled so it's possible it was disabled.
In 2022 they said the feature prevents about 40 incidents a day of people pressing the accelerator down instead of the brake.
Stops you from going into the garage door and other various things.
“Here, I’m showing a particular mode of failure of humans where they accidentally press the accelerator pedal instead of the brake pedal. For example, these people are pressing the accelerator pedal thinking that they’re pressing the brake pedal. But the car realizes that they are doing this and are heading towards a collision and automatically cuts out the acceleration, and presses the brake to prevent the humans from colliding."
Edit: Clarity, but also I think the enable/disable is because it does take control away from the driver, and there could be a theoretical emergency situation where one collision by accelerating away, is better than the other incoming collision? Some people might not want to give up that control? Like if you got a semi about to rear end you at full speed, jumping the curb and hitting a fence is probably the better option.