Backing up protection

[tguer21]

Does tesla provide a feature i can turn on to prevent backing up collision protection? I cant find anything that talks about that after searching and searching.

this morning i backed into a car as i pulled out of my drive way. There was no beep or alert whatsoever. Completely my fault.

Im having a bad season in life and was just absentminded and “lost.”

i now have a brand new damaged tesla...ive had it only for a month. Im so upset with myself and hoping there is some feature that can help me not be such a dumb person in the future.

 

[mswlogo]

The ultrasonic sensors should have been beeping. I don’t recall if those can be turned off.

I leave my hitch on for extra buffer

 

[MXLRplus]

Does tesla provide a feature i can turn on to prevent backing up collision protection? I cant find anything that talks about that after searching and searching.

this morning i backed into a car as i pulled out of my drive way. There was no beep or alert whatsoever. Completely my fault.

Im having a bad season in life and was just absentminded and “lost.”

i now have a brand new damaged tesla...ive had it only for a month. Im so upset with myself and hoping there is some feature that can help me not be such a dumb person in the future.

This angers some people but it's true. The Tesla collision avoidance system is several years behind the curve now. All my other late model cars are better (2016+), some costing less than 1/2 the price.

No, Tesla does not have reverse AEB or cross traffic alerts. The ultrasonic are not 100% reliable and the reverse camera sometimes fails to come on.

 

[andrewFW]

i now have a brand new damaged tesla...ive had it only for a month. Im so upset with myself and hoping there is some feature that can help me not be such a dumb person in the future.

I was pretty mad at myself the first time I curbed the tires.

...and the second time.

It happens. Sometimes I have to remind myself that I bought it to use it. It's not a museum piece, and I don't take it to car shows. Point is, don't beat yourself up too much about it. Battle scars!

 

[Bob Denny]

This is right. My wife has a 2019 Toyota Highlander. If you are in Reverse, not moving, and anything moves into the field behind you, it starts a distinctive beeping and the mirror lights flash. How cool is that? Sitting in the driveway, if someone is walking on the sidewalk, beep beep. If you are in a parking lot getting ready to back out of a space, and someone is approaching to drive behind you, beep beep.

My 2020 Model X is totally unaware of these hazards. Plus I love the Toyota's mirror lights themselves. Far superior to the cartoons on the MX dashboard.

 

[Bob Denny]

... and thereverse camera sometimes fails to come on.

Also true. This is a bug, and has been there since I got my 2020 MX (2020.16.21 s/w now).

 

[Yosry]

Tesla does not have such a thing, it called cross traffic alert, which i do for all other cars 2015 and up, it is very useful feature , it even push the brake for you, if u keep backing while cross traffic coming

 

[tguer21]

This angers some people but it's true. The Tesla collision avoidance system is several years behind the curve now. All my other late model cars are better (2016+), some costing less than 1/2 the price.

No, Tesla does not have reverse AEB or cross traffic alerts. The ultrasonic are not 100% reliable and the reverse camera sometimes fails to come on.

Aww this makes me sad, I did not know this. I thought something was wrong with my car that it didnt beep before i hit something. I thought it would at least do that...i was hoping it would actually stop me, but i understand if it doesnt. Im so sad that i didnt know better...i just learned someone like me should not have a tesla.

 

[tguer21]

I was pretty mad at myself the first time I curbed the tires.

...and the second time.

It happens. Sometimes I have to remind myself that I bought it to use it. It's not a museum piece, and I don't take it to car shows. Point is, don't beat yourself up too much about it. Battle scars!

i wish it was just a scrape, i understand they will happen. this is a huge dent and body paint damage, and, etc. But thank you for the kind word. I am still so upset and sad with myself. I should not have gotten something so nice.

 

[Jetwash08]

I was pretty mad at myself the first time I curbed the tires.

...and the second time.

It happens. Sometimes I have to remind myself that I bought it to use it. It's not a museum piece, and I don't take it to car shows. Point is, don't beat yourself up too much about it. Battle scars!

Same here. I just curbed it for the second time last week.
Why can’t they add something like this picture? You have to take your eyes away from the upper screen to get distance info. It should be together on the same screen IMO.

 

[tguer21]

This is right. My wife has a 2019 Toyota Highlander. If you are in Reverse, not moving, and anything moves into the field behind you, it starts a distinctive beeping and the mirror lights flash. How cool is that? Sitting in the driveway, if someone is walking on the sidewalk, beep beep. If you are in a parking lot getting ready to back out of a space, and someone is approaching to drive behind you, beep beep.

My 2020 Model X is totally unaware of these hazards. Plus I love the Toyota's mirror lights themselves. Far superior to the cartoons on the MX dashboard.

I definitely think at our price point it should

 

[tguer21]

Tesla does not have such a thing, it called cross traffic alert, which i do for all other cars 2015 and up, it is very useful feature , it even push the brake for you, if u keep backing while cross traffic coming

Ugh thats exactly what i need in a vehicle!

 

[henderrj]

The good news is that Tesla can add it to any ap2 plus vehicle in the future. Hopefully they will!

 

[tguer21]

The ultrasonic sensors should have been beeping. I don’t recall if those can be turned off.

I leave my hitch on for extra buffer

What kind of hitch? And do you not garage the vehicle? Does it fit with the hitch?

 

[tguer21]

Same here. I just curbed it for the second time last week.
Why can’t they add something like this picture? You have to take your eyes away from the upper screen to get distance info. It should be together on the same screen IMO.

This is exactly what we need!

 

[mswlogo]

What kind of hitch? And do you not garage the vehicle? Does it fit with the hitch?

Just the tow bar sticks out enough that it would hit first. But this spring summer I have not remove my standard ball either. Which is probably like 10” out further. Fits in
My not so large garage easy. Sorry I don’t have a photo.

 

[tguer21]

Just the tow bar sticks out enough that it would hit first. But this spring summer I have not remove my standard ball either. Which is probably like 10” out further. Fits in
My not so large garage easy. Sorry I don’t have a photo.

Oh, interesting, maybe you can provide brand name and model? I have a hitch receiver but it doesn't stick out far enough to do anything.

 

[MXLRplus]

Just the tow bar sticks out enough that it would hit first. But this spring summer I have not remove my standard ball either. Which is probably like 10” out further. Fits in
My not so large garage easy. Sorry I don’t have a photo.

It might be a mixed blessing. Some city will ticket you for not removing your towbar, not many but some.
You can do some expensive damage to unibody cars by hitting the receiver. It bends areas that are hard to fix.

That being said, I had the tow bar on my truck when a texter was tailgating me in stop-n-go traffic. It did heavy damage to her Volvo, and not a scratch to my truck. But... A truck is a frame on rail, and this was a 20,000lb rated receiver.

 

[mswlogo]

It might be a mixed blessing. Some city will ticket you for not removing your towbar, not many but some.
You can do some expensive damage to unibody cars by hitting the receiver. It bends areas that are hard to fix.

That being said, I had the tow bar on my truck when a texter was tailgating me in stop-n-go traffic. It did heavy damage to her Volvo, and not a scratch to my truck. But... A truck is a frame on rail, and this was a 20,000lb rated receiver.

For the tow bar (the receiver). Never. 99.9% of vehicles you cannot remove the “receiver”. The receiver is the “tow bar”. Maybe leaving the ball on in some places is a problem. But I have never heard of such a thing. Getting hit without the hitch will do plenty of damage too. Half the vehicles around here have them on. Recreational lake. I think it’s better to hit the hitch on a minor hit. On a major hit it won’t make much difference. That’s the way I look at it.

 

[Bob Denny]

The good news is that Tesla can add it to any ap2 plus vehicle in the future. Hopefully they will!

You mean instead of the video game updates we've been getting?