Questions from Thorsten Gm?hling
Remo Weber, 10 years with a Tesla. Some questions:
1a) Would you buy one again, your model?
1b) How many miles did you make?
2) How many error episodes did you have in that time?
3) Did the car's autopilot once react in a manner, that was risky for your health and life?
4) Did the car's autopilot once save your life?
I liked those questions from Thorsten and decided to publish them with my detailed answers for everyone.
I still have a 2013 Model S, It is one of the 8 we have today. (I purchased 11 Tesla’s, two of them used)
1a) Yes, I will buy more, my favorite is the Model Y.
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1b) I have driven myself more than 250,000 EV miles, all our EVs have driven way over a million miles.
2) Countless errors in autopilot, My 2017 Model 3 had autopilot and it was not usable as a real autopilot back then. It was the start of a long journey. I use the autopilot as much as I can, but you have to be very attentive. I'm very proud to be a part of early adapters and my data and experiences help to make it better. The improvements since 2017 are mind-blowing. I love every update.
3) I have never felt danger for my life, but I was scared many times about the paint job. I took control several times to save a fender bender.
4) NO, I never experienced a moment of death. There were plenty of warnings from the car to avoid a rear-end event due to the lack of my attention. I only have two experiences where the autopilot actually saved me and the car from a major crash. Both times I did not pay attention to the traffic.
One time the autopilot made an emergency stop in the carpool line due to an accident ahead and as I fear for the car behind me to crash into me, the Tesla released the brakes, rolled a few feed-forward, and saved us both. The second time I was exiting a freeway and a truck cut me off, the car swerved into the emergency lane and initiated an emergency stop with all alarm bells screaming. It was scary. I was in the truck's blind spot.
Other comments:
- Fantom braking is real and needs the drives immediate attention to step on the accelerator to avoid a possible event.
- Line hunting is not dangerous, but aggravating. please, Tesla, fix that.
- None of the Tesla’s in our fleet ever had an accident or fender bender. Before we changed to Tesla’s, we had plenty of claims paying for bumpers and fenders.
- I sold three Tesla’s used, only because I was offered more money than I paid.
- I support most EVs, we still have several 2014-2016 Fiat 500e. We liked the Bolt as well as a local commuter.
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1 年I am constantly baffled why people use auto pilot at all and then to complain that an adaptive cruise control is any more than cruise control seems really silly. When tesla sends the full autonomous update to their vehicles then people can use it and I am sure it will be awesome. A lot of moral philosophy work being done globally right now before autonomous can be launched and really we need human controlled vehicles off the roads first so they can all be networked which means first fossil vehicles have to be gone. Seeing Americans on video in teslas using auto pilot while they read books or eat etc shows quite absurd dependance on cruise control way beyond what is meant to do. Hence - I am not surprised there are accidents and it’s totally unfair to blame such events on the vehicle manufacturer - stupidity is the responsibility of each individual. Love their wildly optimistic trust of tech but …. Darwinian theory suggests they are weeding themselves out of the gene pool… lol Great to see somebody putting some of the silliness straight but I think you are still too kind… lol