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Tesla Model 3 Owner Gets Stranded in the Middle of the Freeway on Her Third Drive
Dana Brems used to drive a Toyota Prius in college, but she always wanted to have a Tesla. When she became a doctor, she bought one as a gift to herself. Autopilot was a feature Brems loved. On her third drive, her brand-new Model 3 decided to stop in the left lane of the I-5 highway right after a blind corner. Luckily, nothing worse happened, but the mere possibility made her want to return her car. Tesla does not want it back and blames her for everything.
Brems started her video by telling how she bought her Model 3. Tesla told her she would have to wait until December to get her EV, but she took delivery in just two weeks, which she now finds suspiciously early. There are some possible explanations for that: she could have gotten a car someone else refused, or Tesla’s backlog is not as long as it says. Recently, the company was accused of speeding delivery of vehicles with Full Self-Driving included – a $15,000 plus for beta software most people will never get to use.
The doctor was driving from Los Angeles to San Diego on October 7. She activated Autosteer for the first time and said the Model 3 was changing lanes every ten seconds or so. When she reached Camp Pendleton after stopping in Irvine for a late lunch, a car in front of hers slowed down. That was the trigger for her car to also decelerate and not move again.
An error popped up saying Autopilot was disengaged, but that was pretty much it. There was no warning that the vehicle was losing power, was out of charge, or anything like that. Before leaving, Brems made sure that her car would warn her if she had to stop in a Supercharger to get more power. It never advised her to do so, and when the vehicle stalled on the left lane of I-5 after a blind corner, there was very little she could do apart from calling 911.
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