Tesla owner says car ordered him to pull over before it shut down, trapping him

https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-orders-owner-pull-over-shutting-down-despite-full-charge-2022-12

by nickcotter • 4 years ago

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clnq2• 4 years ago

The article is very sensationalist. The title should be "A new car had a fault."

The window broke because without power it can't lower enough for the door to open. Another result of the power fault.

All cars fail. It's inconvenient and sometimes dangerous. But they do.

joering2• 4 years ago

okay I take the bait - can you point out to any news piece out there regarding any other brand of a vehicle that failed similar way 4 days after being produced?

Yes all vehicles break down like this... but not being less than 100 hours old.

Edit: the window doesn't go down when you open the door. It goes down when door is already open, so that when you close it goes easily under. I don't believe window smashed because it didn't go under the rubber. I leave my Benz C63S for summer in garage, when back from long trip to Europe, battery is completely dead, and I do open it from a key and yes window doesn't move down. When you close the door its just overlapping the rubber. I don't think that rubber (even on Tesla) is strong enough to smash a window. Unless its a very poor design on Tesla part...

clnq2• 4 years ago

None of this is bait. The opposite - I am trying to ground the conversation in reality.

Cars break down all the time, even new ones. If you Google "new car broke down," you'll find plenty of examples. The US Consumer Rights Act even entitles consumers to full refunds if faulty cars are sold to them. So clearly, the problem is common enough for consumer protections to be put in place.

Great that you've never had problems with your Benz, and likely it is better designed, but that's a small sample size to infer from. Same as this one Tesla. Very very few people had these kinds of problems.

throwthroyaboat• 4 years ago

The front window on a Tesla M3/Y sits behind the bright trim attached to the exterior of car (there is no frame around the top and sides of the glass). Normally the glass will drop down a bit when you press the door open button to clear the trim, but if there is no power and you use the manual release, then glass will scrape past the trim on the way out, which can potentially cause damage (as happened) in this case.

Tesla owner says car ordered him to pull over before it shut down, trapping him

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