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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Because it is the only game in town
I had a Series III Land Rover in the early '70s. With the heating system perfectly intact, windshield frost removal was a pain. On one trip to northern Maine in the winter we put a pillow over the passenger side windshield. You could redirect the heater tube to your jacket sleeve for extra warmth.
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Wait, The Elders of the Internet...know who I am?!?
My ex-roommate had a yellow Volkswagen convertible. We were returning from a nice Sunday brunch in upstate rural New York...she hit a bump on the NYS Thruway, and the floor under my feet fell out. Must have rusted thru, and the bump finished it off. Finished the trip with my left foot by the stick, and my right balanced on the frame at the base of the passenger door. Roughly forty miles with a visual of the Thruway few people will ever get. Classic car.
A local shop has a vintage thing for sale.
I dont know for how much, probably a lot.
I saw one like 25 years ago that was remanufactured lifted bulletproof with Porsche turbo engine. I was impressed
It’s too bad for Mary Jo Kopechne that Ted wasn’t driving a Beetle...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GTRil00Lfhc
For all those people who have never seen real comedy.
And the people who cannot remember to dial 0118 999 881 99 9119 725....3
;-)
First car I ever drove was a beetle...Ended up a few years later getting this two door VW truck...and still have it.
A guy at my high school had a cherry Corvair Pickup truck. That thing would be worth a fortune today as they are so rare.
Worked in the Pool biz in SoCal...a couple pool guys had them Chevy’s.......
Are not those oversized electric golf karts just the neatest thing?
And, the 0-60 times are teh fastar........once.
” I don’t want to do everything in the car through a giant i-pod.”
Designed for millennials, their iFag phones ARE their life.
“Tesla feeds the “look at me” need of the wealthy vain.”
Yep, liberal virtue signaling.
That was not an accident.
I do not like over featured cars or motorcycles. Not just paying for them - I don’t like driving them.
Ditto for my bikes. I don’t want an RV on two wheels. I don’t want so many gadgets on the handlebars that I have to think about what I’m doing.
The more complicated a mechanical device gets, the more difficult it is to maintain reliability.
Not defending Tesla specifically, or EVs in general...but how is this news?
Because no band new car has ever failed on someone?
EVs are powered by electricity mostly created by the burning of fossil fuels:
And pray to God it doesn't catch on fire. And if it does, pray the EV is not parked in your garage.
Imagine waking up at 3:30AM and discovering your house is on fire caused by your EV parked in your attached garage spontaneously combusting. Might cause some interesting challenges for the insurance company.
I had a GREAT Ford Escape with a manual transmission NO bells NO whistles some bitch turned left into my car and totaled it!! I now have a car that has fricking warnings for EVERY DAMN THING out there I HATE the car!! Just give me a simple car that IS A CAR!! I had the Escape for 16 years did regular maintenance consistently the ONLY thing that ever went wrong was I had to get a new clutch!! I HATE THESE NEW CARS!!
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