Another Tes-La-Que.
But there’s more: According to the Pleasanton Police Department’s Facebook page on Sunday, after being cleared from the scene, the 2018 Tesla Model S battery reignited, prompting additional fire crews to be sent to contain the fire.
h/t Ray.
“This is not the best representation of auto pilot i know, but this is the video i have”.
Pay heed to what your caring government tells you: don’t text and drive.
The number of $TSLA unintended acceleration events is shocking. Whether it’s a deficiency of the control system or a deficiency of the driver interface, it needs to be addressed. https://t.co/akwvgEx9gW
— CoverDrive (@CoverDrive12) December 25, 2019
A Tesla on autopilot rear-ended a Connecticut trooper’s vehicle early Saturday as the driver was checking on his dog in the back seat, state police said.
Police said they had responded to a disabled vehicle that was stopped in the middle of Interstate 95. While waiting for a tow, the self-driving Tesla came down the road.
After striking the trooper’s vehicle, the driver in the Tesla then rear-ended the disabled vehicle before stopping.
h/t Harambe
Designed by experts.
h/t Bob
“My husband believed Tesla could do no wrong.”
I am wondering whether Tesla ever helps pay for damage in faulty vehicle.
My husband was driving his Tesla Model 3 yesterday in the rain. He was in navigation mode and it downgraded to lane follow because of the weather. He was in the. HOV lane of the interstate, straight (but wet road) road, going the speed limit, no other cars near his. He went under a bridge, the car suddenly swerved left (no warning/beeping triggered). My husband was alert and had his hands on the wheel and tried to regain control, but it had already gone into a spin, did a 360 and hit a concrete wall. In their system, there was no evidence of collision. We only knew the exact time because the frunk became disengaged when it crumpled. The airbags were not deployed, which is surprising given it was a 65 mph crash.
I had previous issues with the navigation mode. The first instance was the car’s desire to move to the leftmost lane even when I was getting off in less than two miles. I could cancel the lane change, but a split second later, it would reinitiate the merge. I could cancel it 10 times in a row, and it did not matter. This was a change from before. I have a video of this. Tesla phone intake person said that was not normal.
A week after, the car in navigate mode nearly led me into an accident. I tried to merge me into a car on the interstate that was going ~30 mph slower than me. Luckily I was able to take the wheel and swerve around it and the road was dry so I was ok. I stopped using the self driving after that. My husband, a mechanical engineer, really believes in the Tesla project and kind of dismissed it as unlucky. But then his accident happened yesterday.
Unsafe at any speed – including “parked”.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has launched an investigation into the possibility that battery defects in Tesla vehicles may have caused the cars to burst into flames.
The investigation will involve certain battery management system software updates in Model S and Model X vehicles made between 2012 and 2019 in response to an “alarming number of car fires that have occurred worldwide,” according to a letter the agency sent to Al Prescott, Tesla’s deputy general counsel, on Oct. 24.
The alleged defects in question are “high-voltage battery fires that are not related to collision or impact damage to the battery pack,” according to the letter.
テスラがまた炎上。ロシアで。
Another Tesla up in flame, this time in Russia.$TSLA $TSLAQ #テスラ #CYAZ #テスラ #モデル3 https://t.co/VVtqyX9oaR pic.twitter.com/yvkEF5fz5D
— Kawasaki_KR-1 (@KawasakiKR11) August 10, 2019
h/t to Raymond
Baby, you can drive my car.
This after-sales support is a relatively new problem that automakers are facing. As cars become more and more intertwined with electronics and software, the interactions and potential for errors increase exponentially. This is less of a problem for a company like Apple, which sells a phone for hundreds of dollars that gets replaced after a couple of years. Automakers like BMW, on the other hand, are expected to build a car that works just like the day it rolled off the showroom floor for hundreds of thousands of miles in all kinds of conditions.
Confidence inspiring.
Related, via Mark Spiegel: This is the “genius” responsible for the $TSLA’s “killer app” Autopilot.
A Tesla car, running on Autopilot, skidded 1,600 feet after sliding under a semitruck at 68 mph, shearing off its top and killing its driver, according to a lawyer who is suing the carmaker.
The crash in west Delray Beach happened four months ago when a tractor-trailer pulled out in front of a bright red Tesla Model 3 driven by 50-year-old Jeremy Banner.
The Autopilot system failed, according to a lawsuit Banner’s family filed Thursday in Palm Beach County. The system should have braked or swerved to avoid the semitruck, Trey Lytal, the family’s attorney, said at a news conference.
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It’s juxtapose time!
It’s sad and frustrating when half of the super chargers AT THE TESLA FACTORY aren’t working and the employee inside says the only thing we can do is call and report them. I’ve been waiting to talk to an actual person for <15 mins now...
@Mtass7 – Policeman jumps out of the road to avoid getting hit by Tesla on autopilot.
The repatriation police have one of the most dangerous jobs in the Norwegian police. They must stand along Norwegian roads to measure speed, control belt and mobile use and stop those who break the law. Only protection is a yellow reflective vest.
Earlier in May, Christian Sørby from Modum learned that it is important to keep abreast of the cars he tries to stop. Because at the end of Verpsletta in Øvre Eiker there was a near accident with a Tesla on “autopilot”.
– I realized that neither the car nor the driver saw me, so I threw myself out of the way to get from it all without damage, explains Sørby to Bygdeposten .