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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“ I miss the beetle
A high school friend of mine had one
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A girl from church with one of these taught me how to drive a stick before I had a license. I got to check out her headlights too
Happen to a guy in a electric truck. He couldn’t unplug the battery because the hood locked.
"Have You Tried Turning It Off and On Again?"
Those old VW Beetles were amazingly ergonomic, almost as if they were larger on the inside than on the outside.
I bought a brand new VW THING back in 1975. Never again. It fell apart just setting in my driveway, Right mirror fell off, hand brake came off in my hand, and after a while I could not drive over 45 mph for some reason. Radio vibrated terribly. window cracked when raising it.
Took it back to the dealer who could not find what was wrong. Traded it off to an UNauthorized VW dealer who had it running in 20 minutes. I had bought a Jeep.
I can work on a muscle. Anything newer and you need to hook it up to a computer and buy the software necessary.
All I needed was screwdrivers, a torque wrench, a 5/16, 7/16, 9/16, and a 5/8...
IT Crowd ping!
Don’t get too smug, this kind of thing has happened with “ICE” vehicles as well, most of the newer vehicles are “drive by wire” in some fashion...
EVs are vanity purchases for the wealthy and well-to-do.
Tesla feeds the “look at me” need of the wealthy vain.
One night I rode with my brother in his ‘66 bug from Eugene, OR to Portland during an ice storm, where water falls as rain and freezes on the ground (and trees, and everything else). My job as passenger was periodically to sit on the right-hand windowsill and reach across to clear ice from the outside of the windshield so my brother could see to drive. The deal was that if I fell off, he wasn’t going to stop until reaching clear pavement at the next overpass, otherwise he wouldn’t be able to get moving again.
It took a while, but we got there. I don’t remember why the trip was so important that it couldn’t wait until the ice melted.
“Have you tried turning it off and on again?”
/IT Crowd
Was that on a you tube video? I might have seen that one. After trying everything I think the tow truck driver or someone found that you could disconnect a wire hidden under the dash. I can not remember what all that fixed.
I’m with you on that. To me touch screens are a deal breaker, whether it’s a ICE or EV. I want knobs or switches that can be operated by feel, rather than looking at a screen to determine the proper setting. I’m fine with the touch screen on my i Pad, but it ends there.
Did she dial 0118 999 881 99 9119 725....3?
My wife had a VW when we first met. Worst car I ever saw by a long shot. Of course it was one of those newer Beetles, not an original one. Dumbest engineering I ever saw. For instance, if anyone touched the cigarette tray (which was in the back because only kids smoke?), it would pull out the wire to the headlights.
I agree. I hate my touch-screen phone. Nav buttons and keys should all be real buttons, because I can’t tell you how often the phone won’t work because my hands aren’t the right temperature. I haven’t had that problem yet the Prius.
Who said there was only bad news anymore?
I want to hear all the Tesla fan boys explain to me again what gear thing EVs are
Remember floating across a pond in my buddies beetle.
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