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On Monday, Manfred Kicking was driving his Tesla Model South on the Autobahn, not far from Munich. While behind the wheel, Boot noticed that a human driving a Volkswagen Passat in the left lane had fallen unconscious. Hither's how Kick described the state of affairs (via Google Translate, a piddling fine-tuning, and Merkur.de):

I saw a motorcar driving slowly in the left lane without using an emergency blinker…The driver had tipped forward and hung motionless in the belt. The head and hands hung limply downward. I had to stop his car somehow, otherwise it would have connected indefinitely. And it was clear that the driver needed urgent help.

Other sources take reported the Passat had already begun to touch on the guardrail, scraping it repeatedly as it drifted in the left lane. Kick pulled alee of the driver, changed lanes, and slowed his vehicle, allowing the Passat to hit him and and so using his own car to end both of them on the highway. Boot climbed into the other vehicle, performed offset aid, and asked other drivers who stopped (and one friend of the human being in question who called during the event) to call for emergency rescuers to rescue the injured man. Doctors believe the man, whose name hasn't been released, is now in stable condition. He suffered a stroke behind the bike and Kick's fast deportment are credited with saving his life.

"I felt like I was in a movie," Kick said on Tuesday. "This was an farthermost situation in which you lot just work."

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Kirk's Model S and the Passat sustained an estimated €x,000 damage ($10,663) — but Elon Musk has already tweeted Tesla will comprehend all repairs and expedite the procedure to become Kirk back on the road. There'due south no clarification on whether Musk is covering the Passat (we assume not), and Volkswagen hasn't chimed in with an equivalent offering. So again, given the beating VW has taken over the past 18 months, nosotros tin can't say nosotros're surprised. Information technology'due south got enough recalls to process already.

The incident is under investigation by German language police, since Kick technically caused an accident, but the report is a mere formality. No charges or citations are expected. Before Musk'due south offer to pay for all amercement to the vehicle, Kick had dismissed the repairs every bit a business organisation. "I do not know if the insurance pays," Kick told Merkur.de. "The about important thing is that the human is all right again."