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[BUG] Model 3 randomly goes into PARK while driving
- Thread starter Jedi2155
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It wasn't too horrible since I wasn't driving that fast. Maybe only parking lot speeds. But, I was pretty surprised. At the time I laughed about it and thought well... I guess you reaaaaaaally want me to put my seat belt on car.
Imagine doing that in an ICE car shifting into park and like stripping all your gears...
I almost guarantee anyone experiencing this is at very low speeds, otherwise the complaint would be a lot more significant.
Anyhow, yes, this happens. Know how the doors are a bit hard to close on this car? More than once I've got in just to move the car from the garage to the driveway (so no seatbelt, this is key). If I didn't fully close the door, I get a nice LURCH as it chucks itself in park due to lack of seatbelt plus technically open door. A bit embarrassing and get I've done it a few times. When the car does this, there is a message on screen saying why it put itself in Park so see if you can see this message.
The car will not put itself in Park at a reasonable movement speed, but you could perhaps do so accidentally below 10km/h probably. Above some speed, you have to hold the button which will engage it regardless (this is your emergency brake), but then the ebrake indicator should show on the display.
So basically, if this happens to you, check the display to see what happened.
All somewhat modern cars have protection against this, and have for quite some time. I think Mythbusters even did a test one this years ago, not even with a new car.
Anyhow, yes, this happens. Know how the doors are a bit hard to close on this car? More than once I've got in just to move the car from the garage to the driveway (so no seatbelt, this is key). If I didn't fully close the door, I get a nice LURCH as it chucks itself in park due to lack of seatbelt plus technically open door. A bit embarrassing and get I've done it a few times. When the car does this, there is a message on screen saying why it put itself in Park so see if you can see this message.
The car will not put itself in Park at a reasonable movement speed, but you could perhaps do so accidentally below 10km/h probably. Above some speed, you have to hold the button which will engage it regardless (this is your emergency brake), but then the ebrake indicator should show on the display.
So basically, if this happens to you, check the display to see what happened.
All somewhat modern cars have protection against this, and have for quite some time. I think Mythbusters even did a test one this years ago, not even with a new car.
Yeah, that’s because you’re now using one-pedal mode, which didn’t exist on the model 3 back when I posted that a year ago.
If you switch the car to “roll” mode, you’ll see the behavior I was referring to.
JasonR67
Member
UGH I *always* check for the age of a thread before jumping in.. The one time I don't.... Sorry.
Perhaps in both of our defence, I did actually check and was like "January, yepp, it's January... 2019? Yeah that's this year, sounds right".
Yeah. Oops. Still getting used to 2020.
Silicon Desert
Well-Known Member
Hmmm, wait a second here. Are you sure she is not confusing the fact that the car saw an available parking space and is prompting her that she has have it to auto-park? Rather than the car actually going into park mode.
Hmmm... is it a possibility that she moved while on the seat at those times
This happened to me at a stop light and Couple times in the car when I was looking for something
Model3 has a pressure sensor on the base of the seat if it picks up that there is not enough pressure on the bottom of the seat the car will go into park by itself
For example if you drive the car into a parking spot open your door and exit while your car is still in drive/hold it will automatically revert to park.
