Posted on 09/05/2023 6:03:23 AM PDT by Red Badger
Cars can be drug on to flatbeds with a winch. Even with all four tires locked up. No reason for it to tie up traffic for nine hours.
Also running out of power is not the same as “bricked”.
Running out of battery, like running out of gas, is not the car’s fault.
and it’s much easier to get Gas , for now ,LOL
I wonder if this could happen to an Amish Buggy.
This does not mean EVs should be scrapped
Actually we should double down and require as a Term of Employment that every Public Employee in America be forbidden from using, owning or possessing any ICE powered vehicle.
this story does not add up.
If not juice, how did the car say it had several miles left?
Why not drag it onto a flatbed tow truck?
I remember back in the day all the articles written about another “SUV that rolled over and killed it’s occupants”.
Get a bazooka and blow the damn thing up.
Exactly. This sounds like a law and towing contract issue, not a disabled vehicle issue.
The tow companies likely wouldn't touch it after losing lawsuits in the past for damaging such a vehicle.
Mercedes-Benz in particular had an issue where after a collision, even a bumper tap, the car wouldn't start and would be locked in park. Tow companies quickly refused to tow them due to claims against them, which caused multiple instances of disabled Mercedes-Benz left blocking traffic.
I believe it was action on the part of states' attorneys general that forced Mercedes-Benz to change the programming in the car where a disabled vehicle could be taken out of park.
There are interviews with Elon Musk where it's shocking how much the engineers at Tesla had to learn after putting cars out on real roads in real situations. Watching the interviews is like being in a time machine listening to someone from the 1920s figuring it out for the first time. It shows they're amateur at best, deficient as a norm, commonly negligent, and criminal on occasion.
My brother and his wife have a Tesla Y, they aren’t greenies. I rode in it recently and was very impressed. The only reason we don’t have one is we live on gravel and the roads can be terrible. We need better clearance.
Yeah, I can’t believe how much faith people put in the range estimate on gas cars too. I’m wanting to fill at 1/4.
Do like Patton did, shoot it and have it thrown off the bridge!
Mmmmm, imagine this in the middle of an evacuation. You know, Hurricane, tornado, fire.
Exactly.
Drives me crazy, my wife tells me the car is down to like 20 miles, and I have to be the one to go get the gas.
You can put a Tesla into ‘tow mode’. Which releases the electronic brake and allows the car to be push/rolled by one person.
More driver ignorance. Not the car’s fault.
Must not have read the article. The car still showed a charge for several more miles.
Ain’t gummit subsidies wonderful.
Why didn’t 4-5 big guys just flip the car over to the bar-ditch? It might pi$$ off the owner but his insurance company would rather replace his vehicle than pay for any other accidents that were the result ...
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