This is hearsay! Lots of people said their Toyota’s and Lexus suddenly accelerated but this too was ruled as operator error or the accelerator getting stuck in the carpet. Many people try to blame someone else for their mistakes.
Sent from AT&T Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Thursday, July 8, 2021, 7:57 PM, mark hanson via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: Hi Folks, I use the base AutoPilot on my Y on long trips (appears to only work on painted freeways) that relieves fatigue going down an extended highway but *didn't* buy the full self driving feature for an additional $10K. I really like the car now after the first week in March (steep learning curve, no dealer info). The confusion is similar names for the full self driving option in Tesla speak. A friend's wife totaled a model 3 on a country road (in full self driving mode $10K extra) coming up to a non standard stop sign on a T and hit a close building (brick wall). It was in an old town where a building was too close to the road about 10' (not current set back requirements). Apparently the software misses non standard situations. So the couple bought another model 3 and also purchased the option self driving feature again. This time my friend was driving on another country road (no center line) and in one of the turns, the car hit a tree, totaled a second Tesla-3 - (two in two years). He has some medical issues from the accident. I guess I'm old fashioned, I'm happy with an electric car that just runs J , don't need all the extra foo-foo electric nose-pickers. I really like the seamless long trip fast charging, pre-cools the pack to get 200KW in & zaps it up quickly 20 minutes 20-80% by just putting in the destination address & routes you to in between fast charging stations. The cord is short & have to back up since the port is in the rear & if towing have to detach (unlike the Chevy Bolt). But the Tesla is more comfortable on long trips. I suspect that the accident rate for the full self driving feature is probably underreported though. Have a renewable energy day, Mark Mark E. Hanson 184 Vista Lane Fincastle, VA 24090 540-473-1248 phone, 540-816-0812 cell REEVA: community service RE & EV project club Website: www.REEVAdiy.org (See Project Gallery) UL Certified PV Installer My RE&EV Circuits: www.EVDL.org/lib/mh REEVA Demo: <http://youtu.be/4kqWn2H-rA0> http://youtu.be/4kqWn2H-rA0 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20210708/1795f47d/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20210709/65955a1e/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
