5 day old Tesla Model Y shuts down, trapping owner inside

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A Tesla owner says his Model Y ordered him to pull over before it suddenly shut down, trapping him inside.​


Tom Exton, a British YouTuber who collects cars, was driving to London Thursday night when his 5-day-old Model Y asked him to pull over because it was "shutting down," he said.

He did so, and within minutes, "all power to the car was gone," Exton told Insider, adding that he felt trapped, as doors on Teslas need power to open and close.

"I couldn't open the door by conventional means," he said, "so I had to use the emergency manual-override latch on the door."

According to Tesla's emergency-response guide for the Model Y, opening the front doors without power involves lifting the "mechanical release handle located near the window switches."

Exton followed these instructions, which "somehow broke the driver's window," he said.
https://www.businessinsider.com/tes...ver-shutting-down-despite-full-charge-2022-12

Seems like quality control at Tesla is horrible. "Do yourself a favor and get a Polestar. Or anything other than a Tesla," Exton wrote.
 

As cars become increasingly electronic, it’s not just Tesla owners who are experiencing such issues. I knew a lady who with her elderly mother was locked inside her car when all car electronics suddenly shut down. She was literally reduced to trying to break out a window with her mother’s cane. 🙀

There’s something to be said for old-style cranked car windows, which were all most of us knew for much of our driving careers, and seldom imprisoned people…
 
Fyrefox said:
As cars become increasingly electronic, it’s not just Tesla owners who are experiencing such issues. I knew a lady who with her elderly mother was locked inside her car when all car electronics suddenly shut down. She was literally reduced to trying to break out a window with her mother’s cane. 🙀

There’s something to be said for old-style cranked car windows, which were all most of us knew for much of our driving careers, and seldom imprisoned people…
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Do they even make any autos with crank windows anymore? I can remember having crank windows come off the tracks and fall down into the door. I think that was in a '60s Chevy Biscayne I had in the '70s.
 

Everyone seems to worship the god of technology. He is a good god when he works well but he is also a terrible god when the system doesn't work!
 
SeniorBen said:

A Tesla owner says his Model Y ordered him to pull over before it suddenly shut down, trapping him inside.​


Tom Exton, a British YouTuber who collects cars, was driving to London Thursday night when his 5-day-old Model Y asked him to pull over because it was "shutting down," he said.

He did so, and within minutes, "all power to the car was gone," Exton told Insider, adding that he felt trapped, as doors on Teslas need power to open and close.

"I couldn't open the door by conventional means," he said, "so I had to use the emergency manual-override latch on the door."

According to Tesla's emergency-response guide for the Model Y, opening the front doors without power involves lifting the "mechanical release handle located near the window switches."

Exton followed these instructions, which "somehow broke the driver's window," he said.
https://www.businessinsider.com/tes...ver-shutting-down-despite-full-charge-2022-12

Seems like quality control at Tesla is horrible. "Do yourself a favor and get a Polestar. Or anything other than a Tesla," Exton wrote.
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it BROKE the window... wow !!!...what type of Black Magic is this Oh Mighty Tesla ? 🧐
 
I'm surprised in the day and age of power windows and locks this doesn't happen more often in gas cars as well. I know it's computer controlled because as soon as I hit 9 miles an hour all doors lock if I have in child protection which is easy to do accidently because of the location of the button. I have other cars completely shut down because of the computer I was lucky that was under warranty. I know others who are leaving one of their windows up regardless of weather because the switch broke and they refuse to get it fixed. -
 
SeniorBen said:
Do they even make any autos with crank windows anymore? I can remember having crank windows come off the tracks and fall down into the door. I think that was in a '60s Chevy Biscayne I had in the '70s.
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I'm 88, so I don't have to worry about this problelm. My Kia will last longer than me I bet. If I were quite a bit younger, I'd buy up three or four of the older autos that were in good condition and still needed keys to open and start them. I'd pray they lasted longer than me. And, I ain't gonna go into the nonsense of homes that are electronically controlled. Hackers luv them.
 
SeniorBen said:
Do they even make any autos with crank windows anymore? I can remember having crank windows come off the tracks and fall down into the door. I think that was in a '60s Chevy Biscayne I had in the '70s.
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Yes, I deliberately bought a new car with as little new tech as possible. So my car has the old fashioned crank windows. :) (y) And I actually use a key to start the car. :ROFLMAO: Some high tech is good, but there comes a point where it's too much.
 
This reminds me of the news story last week where the man was trapped in his car on the freeway because cruise control would not disengage. He had to drive around till it ran out of gas. He said brakes wouldn't work, nothing worked that he could do to stop it. 😮:oops:
 
Victoria said:
Yes, I deliberately bought a new car with as little new tech as possible. So my car has the old fashioned crank windows. :) (y) And I actually use a key to start the car. :ROFLMAO: Some high tech is good, but there comes a point where it's too much.
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There comes a point where it is dumb to have only a single option operating pretty much the entire car. Namely, electricity.

Electrical sources can never be trusted. That is the reason I always carried a spare battery in my motorcycle trunk. And let me tell ya, through the decades of riding, more than a few times did I have to cruise a dead engine and bike to the side of the road and change out a battery. And that includes one time, two or three stories in the air, on the Bong Bridge near Duluth. Minnesota. Oh, yeah, that was FUN. kiddies.

The sometimes ephemeral nature of electricity is also the reason we have a big, fat arsed full home generator hooked up to the electrical system of our home.
 
One of my neighbors got a Tesla. You don't want to know how many times I've seen that towed out of her driveway (3 times) and she relies on her little gas-powered Honda Civic to get her to work and all when that thing goes down.

On edit: everytime the Tesla went down, nothing was covered under warranty and she has paid at least three grand in repairs.

At least hybrids are more reliable.
 

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