Posted on 10/17/2022 4:14:45 PM PDT by lowbridge
The doctor was driving from Los Angeles to San Diego on October 7. She activated Autosteer for the first time and said the Model 3 was changing lanes every ten seconds or so. When she reached Camp Pendleton after stopping in Irvine for a late lunch, a car in front of hers slowed down. That was the trigger for her car to also decelerate and not move again.
An error popped up saying Autopilot was disengaged, but that was pretty much it. There was no warning that the vehicle was losing power, was out of charge, or anything like that. Before leaving, Brems made sure that her car would warn her if she had to stop in a Supercharger to get more power. It never advised her to do so, and when the vehicle stalled on the left lane of I-5 after a blind corner, there was very little she could do apart from calling 911.
Shifting gears, braking, or accelerating did not make the car move. A hard reset also made no difference. While Brems was trying that, people would overtake her car on the shoulder or the right lane. When the person who was with her in the car called 911, the police made an extremely urgent request for a tow truck using her AAA number. A few minutes later, a policeman arrived and helped divert traffic and push the Model 3 to the shoulder.
Brems saw in the Tesla app that there was a service for roadside assistance for vehicles that stopped on the road. She selected it and received a text message 15 minutes later suggesting she call 911.
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Son in law rented a Tesla, 4door sedan. Nice car. But wAy too complicated. Just to move an air vent you must navigate on the giant i-pod screen to do it. You can’t even see the vents.
Fast as hell. But my old VW beetle had a bigger trunk up front. I would never buy one simply because it’s too complicated. I don’t want to do everything in the car through a giant i-pod.
I take it she missed her booty-call?
Meant I-pad. But screw apple.
$45,000? More like $60,000. If this happened with a 69 Chevy, I could diagnose the problem within 5 minutes without a computer and probably repair it myself.
I have a 61 VW truck,,,two door.
“An error popped up saying Autopilot was disengaged, but that was pretty much it.”
At that point, I would have stepped on the gas pedal, but then I’m old fashioned when it comes to ‘technology’.
Turn it off. Disconnect the plug. Wait 30 seconds. Put the plug back in. Turn it back on.
Rare bird huh?
I miss the beetle.
But for a daily driver, very dangerous.
And couldn’t afford to keep it as a novelty.
Have fun. Those old VW’s are so cool.
How do you shift gears in a Tesla?
What a nightmare it must be to just suddenly stop in the middle of the freeway and not be able to do a damned thing about it. It’s unsafe to try to get out of the car, and yet it’s also unsafe to just sit there and wait for a some yokel who’s not paying attention to rear-end you. All you can do is call for help and pray that it arrives quickly.
I’m a middle-aged guy who’s been driving since 16, and I’ve have a typical share of “car trouble” over the decades, but not once was the problem such that I wasn’t able to at least get the car to the side of the road.
My dad knows a guy who bought one of those rare collector muscle cars at an auction for about 90 grand.
It sits in a garage, afraid to drive it.
Funny guy.
Does anybody force you to buy a Tesla? NOPE.
And why is Tesla so DOMINANT in the US EV market with by far the biggest market share and market cap if their cars are “paperweights”?
Fans active on all the social media sites!
A high school friend of mine had one
During one of the coldest winters in my memory I road shotgun with him.
My job was to scrape the frost off the window in front of him as he drove.
All of the hot air ducts from the engine to the defroster had rusted away long before he bought the car.
Ohio with its salted roads is no place to own a VW Bug
It’s one of those days when your brand new Model 3 Tesla seems more like a rusty old Model T Ford, as you get help to push it to the side of the freeway.
“...the vehicle stalled on the left lane of I-5 after a blind corner”
Eisenhower should have told the Interstate designers to make sure there were no blind corners anywhere.
I blame Republicans.
She probably turned on the radio and cut the range in half
Because tesla’s are the cool car is why it’s the domamint car.
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