{"id":12029,"date":"2023-10-30T08:40:10","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T07:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/30\/uk-drivers-make-claims-of-dangerous-electric-car-faults\/"},"modified":"2023-10-30T08:40:10","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T07:40:10","slug":"uk-drivers-make-claims-of-dangerous-electric-car-faults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/30\/uk-drivers-make-claims-of-dangerous-electric-car-faults\/","title":{"rendered":"UK drivers make claims of \u2018dangerous\u2019 electric car faults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Motorists locked inside their cars, while an NHS doctor said her BMW iX accelerated to 65mph and then crashed<\/p>\n<p>An electric car owner has claimed her vehicle\u2019s autopilot engaged without warning and accelerated to 65mph, zigzagged across the road and caused a serious crash, the Guardian can reveal.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged incident involved a doctor, Ravpreet Kaur, who was travelling in Buckinghamshire with her son in the family\u2019s \u00a380,000 BMW iX. Her husband said they were lucky to escape unhurt.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/oct\/29\/uk-drivers-make-claims-of-incredibly-scary-malfunctions-with-electric-cars\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/46f63a94ff1a3459fb769b95b9f3dce893a4a4ca\/0_1254_3024_1814\/master\/3024.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=f6d90eb1bd193291ac35b12a559f2722\" title=\"UK drivers make claims of \u2018dangerous\u2019 electric car faults\" \/>Motorists locked inside their cars, while an NHS doctor said her BMW iX accelerated to 65mph and then crashed<br \/>\nAn electric car owner has claimed her vehicle\u2019s autopilot engaged without warning and accelerated to 65mph, zigzagged across the road and caused a serious crash, the Guardian can reveal.<br \/>\nThe alleged incident involved a doctor, Ravpreet Kaur, who was travelling in Buckinghamshire with her son in the family\u2019s \u00a380,000 BMW iX. Her husband said they were lucky to escape unhurt. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motorists locked inside their cars, while an NHS doctor said her BMW iX accelerated to 65mph and then crashed An electric car owner has claimed her vehicle\u2019s autopilot engaged without warning and accelerated to 65mph, zigzagged across the road and caused a serious crash, the Guardian can reveal. The alleged incident involved a doctor, Ravpreet &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/30\/uk-drivers-make-claims-of-dangerous-electric-car-faults\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK drivers make claims of \u2018dangerous\u2019 electric car faults<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12029"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}