Another Tesla problem

Ultimately car manufactures may need a camera that monitors the application of these foot pedals.

babock wrote:

Yosemite Sam1 wrote:
And maybe I'll join in with the bashing.

I already sold and took profits on my Teslas stocks.

I am sure your bashing will move the stock LOL!

Forming coalition with the weeping shorts, lol.:W

Yosemite Sam1 wrote:
And maybe I'll join in with the bashing.

I already sold and took profits on my Teslas stocks.

I am sure your bashing will move the stock LOL!

Reisender wrote:

babock wrote:
I probably won't be getting an electric car anytime soon myself but so funny seeing these Tesla bashing threads all the time. Are people really that threatened by the success of them that they feel they have to do this?

I hear ya.

And maybe I'll join in with the bashing.

I already sold and took profits on my Teslas stocks.

Mbiviano wrote:

wnjj wrote:

NJRVer wrote:
Other thing to consider.
I did a job for a customer with a tesla and he told me he rarely, rarely ever uses his brake pedal.
He said the gas pedal works if push it you go, and if you let off of it the car will stop.

He said it took getting used to at first but now he barely needs the brake pedal.
Could be instance in OP's link where the driver was doing that and in a panic situation stomped on the gas pedal instead of the brake because they were so used to never using the brake.

You may be on to something. Changing basic driver controls should be approached with caution and only with significant study. Muscle memory is tough to reprogram, especially under a stressful situation where humans go back to basics.

The risk IME is going back to ICE and not having these features and forgetting to hold the brake ( or the many other auto features). But you still use the brake pedal in EVs during an emergency, nothing has changed. Anyone have one pedal driving on their tractors, same concept.

I have two pedal driving on one of my tractors; forward pedal, reverse pedal.
My lawn mower has one pedal; push forward, go forward; push backward, go reverse.

I can say I almost 99% of the time never touch the brake pedal on either of them.

wnjj wrote:

NJRVer wrote:
Other thing to consider.
I did a job for a customer with a tesla and he told me he rarely, rarely ever uses his brake pedal.
He said the gas pedal works if push it you go, and if you let off of it the car will stop.

He said it took getting used to at first but now he barely needs the brake pedal.
Could be instance in OP's link where the driver was doing that and in a panic situation stomped on the gas pedal instead of the brake because they were so used to never using the brake.

You may be on to something. Changing basic driver controls should be approached with caution and only with significant study. Muscle memory is tough to reprogram, especially under a stressful situation where humans go back to basics.

The risk IME is going back to ICE and not having these features and forgetting to hold the brake ( or the many other auto features). But you still use the brake pedal in EVs during an emergency, nothing has changed. Anyone have one pedal driving on their tractors, same concept.

babock wrote:
I probably won't be getting an electric car anytime soon myself but so funny seeing these Tesla bashing threads all the time. Are people really that threatened by the success of them that they feel they have to do this?

I hear ya.

I probably won't be getting an electric car anytime soon myself but so funny seeing these Tesla bashing threads all the time. Are people really that threatened by the success of them that they feel they have to do this?

fj12ryder wrote:

Yosemite Sam1 wrote:
Or spending more time in the repair shop and sending their mechanic's son through college.

Where does one take their Tesla to be repaired, which I am sure will happen, or has happened? And how will that work when there are as many as "everyone" says there will be?

Our neighbour had an issue with the glove compartment latch after about a year. He just used the app to schedule a repair and the ranger came to his place of work. He had to wait a couple weeks though. More serious stuff goes to a service centre.

Yosemite Sam1 wrote:
Or spending more time in the repair shop and sending their mechanic's son through college.

Where does one take their Tesla to be repaired, which I am sure will happen, or has happened? And how will that work when there are as many as "everyone" says there will be?