@oldmanmike @MissingThePt Pedal misapplication. Common in all models of cars, and always has been. The panicked person who thinks the accelerator is the brake just keeps pressing on it as hard as they can in their panic, hoping to "override the accelerator" and slow the car down.

There's airplane equivalents of this, too, where pilots end up crashing their planes

@oldmanmike Sorry but yes. Google it. Widely recognized by the NHTSA for decades. Investigated for many cars (including Teslas), many, many times over.

More to the point, in the hi-res videos, you can literally see that the brake lights aren't on. And the acceleration starts right when they would have needed to press the brake (for the motorcycle).

There is a PHYSICAL LINKAGE from the brake pedal to the brakes. And the brakes are more powerful than the motors. They were NOT braking.