Driving on the 101 freeway in santa barbara. Road was wet after a light rain at around 6:30am. Was in the middle lane, very light traffic, on a wide curve. Was not speeding, accelerating, braking or steering. Was not using autopilot. Tires had 11,000 miles and tread was still good. Car all of a sudden spun out of control, turning 180 degrees and crashed against a concrete center divider. I have a video saved from the car's cameras of the entire accident. You can see a car preceding me in the same lane at a similar speed, was not affected. When driving the tesla on other raining days during the year I had the sensation that the car did not handle well on wet roads, slipping when accelerating. The insurance now owns the car so I don't have access to the black box but I know that tesla has the data from the crash which they are not sharing with me. The called me 10 minutes after the crash noting that I had crashed and asked me if I was ok. A short video of the crash is available here: https://youtu.be/gyqyxgeot94 I have video from the other cameras too, as well as video footage before this segment.
2018 Tesla Model 3 driver assistance complaints
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1. We picked up the car on dec 30th, from the fremont factory, the car was not even fully charged, and there was a message on the console saying, that, 'it needs a software upgrade.' we went back inside and asked one of the sales people, he said, 'this is the end of the year, the cars are not coming fully charged, and he laughed about the software upgrade.' we came home and upgraded the software. No-one went over the operations of the car. 2. On jan 1st, the 30 day trial for the autopilot feature popped up on the console, and we clicked yes. We decided to try the auto-trial feature in the evening from santa cruz to our home. We enabled the auto-pilot on route 880, it kept asking to keep your hands lightly on the steering wheel, while the hands were on the steering wheel at all times. After maybe 10 minutes, in the centre line, at a speed of 63 MPH, red warning started saying, 'the car can no longer auto steer.' we canceled the autopilot, manually drove the car. On local street on mowry avenue, between 6:30 pm and 7 pm, while driving, the car in front of us slowed down, removed the foot from the accelerator, car continue to accelerate, while the brake pedal was pressed. No collision warning, and car kept going until it ran into the next car and stopped. We pulled over and assessed the damage, our car has small nick on the center of the bumper. 3. Arrived home, with about 80 miles charge left. After plugging in the charger, about 15 minutes later, message on the phone came that charging interrupted, as it has 78% of charge on the battery. Additionally, these are the some of the other concerns, -rattling noise on the right side during driving -while driving slowly at about 5 miles an hour, there is a brake noise -there is wind leak on both front windows and doors. -right rear seat belt does not always lock
2018 tesla model 3. Consumer writes in regard to safety issue with backup camera. Camera will stop displaying image while vehicle is reversing. *as
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