Tesla founder Elon Musk is rewarding a German man who used a Model S to save an unconscious driver, according to reports.
Manfred Kick won’t have to spend a dime on repairs on his ride after the billionaire inventor got wind of the driver’s life-saving moves on the Autobahn.
Kick, 41, spotted a Volkswagen Passat swerving and hitting the guardrail on the highway in Munich on Monday evening, according to German newspaper Muenchner Merkur.
Kick noticed the driver wasn’t awake, so he called the fire department and pulled in front of the Passat, tapping on the brakes so it’d hit his rear bumper and slow down enough to come to a full stop.
“I had to stop his car somehow, otherwise it would have continued forever. And it was clear that the driver needed urgent help,” Kick told Muenchner Merkur, according to a translation of the story.
Kick then performed first aid on the sick 47-year-old man, who is believed to have had a heart attack, until help came.
The driver was taken to the hospital and is in stable condition.
The Tesla and Passat sustained about $10,000 total in damage – but Kick won’t have to spend a dime getting his roughly $70,000 car repaired.
“Congrats to the Tesla owner who sacrificed damage to his own car to bring a car with an unconscious driver safely to a stop!” the Tesla CEO tweeted Wednesday. “In appreciation, Tesla is providing all repair costs free of charge and expedited.”