Horrifying dashcam footage shows Tesla wildly malfunctioning after head-on smash with hit-and-run maniac

Shocking video footage has revealed nan terrifying infinitesimal a Jeep smashed into a Tesla, arsenic it spun retired of power connected a upland roadworthy successful a hit-and-run crash.

Radu and Angela Stefan, a mates from Las Vegas, were driving their Tesla on Deer Creek Road connected Mount Charleston connected July 7 erstwhile nan mishap occurred.

Disaster struck erstwhile a Jeep Rubicon, hurtling down from nan mountain, abruptly veered into their path, smashing head-on into their car.

'It was for illustration a scary movie,' a shaken Radu revealed to KSNV. 

'Very scary. We were conscionable horrified, experiencing it. Just successful shock.'

In nan heart-stopping incident caught connected dashcam, Radu loses power of nan Tesla arsenic it spins and narrowly misses nan separator of nan upland cliffs.

'We mislaid power of nan car,' said Radu. 'The car went towards nan mountain, and I was hardly capable to extremity it astatine 1 point.'

But nan mates was shocked to spot nan Jeep driver sped off, leaving nan Stefans stranded without compartment service.

'We saw successful nan rearview reflector nan group who deed us, they conscionable left.' 

Good Samaritans had to fetch Rangers to thief nan traumatized couple.

'Some group stopped, trying to thief us,' Radu said. 'We had nary compartment telephone work astatine that location. So, personification went and called nan Rangers.' 

The Stefans now look a whopping repair measure of up to $20,000 - and their security won't screen a penny, according to nan couple.

They're desperately seeking nan hit-and-run driver to ft nan bill.

Nevada State Police are investigating, but person yet to place nan maniac driver who drove disconnected nan scene.

With their Tesla now sitting damaged successful their driveway, nan Stefans are hoping personification will travel guardant pinch accusation astir nan enigma Jeep.

In April, US auto-safety regulators revealed that nan Tesla Autopilot characteristic has been progressive pinch astatine slightest 13 fatal crashes, aft conducting an investigation into nan characteristic that began successful August 2021.

It's unclear if nan Tesla driver was utilizing nan autopilot characteristic erstwhile he was struck head-on by nan Jeep. 

The specifications surrounding why nan Jeep collided into nan Tesla are still nether investigation.