Merrill
Merrill
I think going to DMV is worse than going to the dentist, my license expired last year and they gave me an extension. I was not looking forward to going there and thank goodness they let me renew on line!
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That's a very good point and i would bring that up with the governor and the news media when I reported the incident.I guess CA DMV needs to update its rules because there will be no new gasoline cars to be sold by 2035.
This happened to my son this afternoon. I got into the same argument with the supervisor, telling them that this is just the way the car works, and how can they fail people this this, and they need to modernize their thinking. It old them they are penalizing people for going electric. But, it’s the DMV, and I got nowhere. We have two Teslas, and now need to borrow another car for the next test …I took my daughter this morning for her behind the wheel drive test at the DMV office in our Model 3. She was failed for "Mechanical Failure". According to the examiner, because of the regenerative braking which she was calling "auto braking". She was failed just because it was a Tesla and has regenerative braking. According to the examiner the car is braking by itself and therefore my daughter was failed for "Mechanical Failure". I got into a heated argument explaining that all electric cars have regenerative braking .....it is not "auto braking". This is ridiculous has anyone else run into this issue. This is idiotic....
Some people are just too stupid to deal with. You’ll have to go higher up the food chain to find someone with half a brain.This happened to my son this afternoon. I got into the same argument with the supervisor, telling them that this is just the way the car works, and how can they fail people this this, and they need to modernize their thinking. It old them they are penalizing people for going electric. But, it’s the DMV, and I got nowhere. We have two Teslas, and now need to borrow another car for the next test …
You can always use the brake pedal rather than the regenerative braking for the re-test. I am sure all the inspector wants to see is that the driver knows how to use the brakes in the car and is proficient at that skill. When the DMV hands you a license, its a license to drive ANY car. Not just Tesla. Sometimes you just have to play the game rather than fight the system.This happened to my son this afternoon. I got into the same argument with the supervisor, telling them that this is just the way the car works, and how can they fail people this this, and they need to modernize their thinking. It old them they are penalizing people for going electric. But, it’s the DMV, and I got nowhere. We have two Teslas, and now need to borrow another car for the next test …
You might want to try talking to the manager about the test, BEFORE the test. That seems to be the recommendation Teslarati got anyway.This happened to my son this afternoon. I got into the same argument with the supervisor, telling them that this is just the way the car works, and how can they fail people this this, and they need to modernize their thinking. It old them they are penalizing people for going electric. But, it’s the DMV, and I got nowhere. We have two Teslas, and now need to borrow another car for the next test …
It worked. It took a small town Gilroy DMV rogue employee who flunked the tester with Tesla regenerative brake to bring enough attention for the press to reverse the tide. After the TV station sent an e-mail, within 1 hour DMV reversed that flunking score into passing one!That's a very good point and i would bring that up with the governor and the news media when I reported the incident.
Why? Are there any instances of DMVs in states other than Crazy Cali flunking people taking driving tests in Teslas?Great, now we just need 49 more states to "instruct their staff to treat [road legal] vehicles in the same manner as [road legal] vehicles."
That’s how it used to be. You got a limited license if you tested on one of those newfangled automatic transmissions.By this logic, should we fail someone that drives an automatic ICE vehicle because he/she didn't get tested on an ICE vehicle that has a manual transmission? It doesn't make any sense.
Citation please. Did they register and collect tax on the vehicle? I'll bet they did. Your comment is typical rhetoric and narrative. Give citation that California does not consider the car 'road legal'.It's not even legal to *sell* Teslas in some states, nevermind drive them.
If the DMV right across the street from Tesla's Fremont factory doesn't think that Tesla's are road legal, what do you think is going to happen in other states?
...Give citation that California does not consider the car 'road legal'...
It may not be an official California law to specifically name Tesla as illegal on the road but case after case, DMV test drive Examiners told drivers that if they want to pass, get a gasoline car.
The examiner should have also asked her to apply the brakes in a couple of scenarios.I took my daughter this morning for her behind the wheel drive test at the DMV office in our Model 3. She was failed for "Mechanical Failure". According to the examiner, because of the regenerative braking which she was calling "auto braking". She was failed just because it was a Tesla and has regenerative braking. According to the examiner the car is braking by itself and therefore my daughter was failed for "Mechanical Failure". I got into a heated argument explaining that all electric cars have regenerative braking .....it is not "auto braking". This is ridiculous has anyone else run into this issue. This is idiotic....