Hi - I have had an accident this morning, thankfully no-one hurt but ended with my 2 month old Model 3 in a tree. It could have been worse as I was in a car park at my son's school but all the kids had just gone in thankfully and I had hung on to drop something into the school so there weren't many people around.
I just want to know if anyone has experienced the same issue or whether this is totally my error. I was sitting in the car for a few minutes and thought I was in park mode. I pressed to open the drivers door and the car started to move forward and I've panicked, closed the door and hit the accelerator rather than the break.
So it's clear I made a mistake in trying to correct the issue but I'm confused as to why the car moved off in the first place as I thought the door opening put the car into park automatically and why then was it in drive when I then pressed the wrong pedal. My brake mode is hold so it doesn't ever move forward when I release from the brake, so that can't be the issue either.
I have got the dash cam footage and you can clearly see my door opening just before it starts to move, almost as if the door opening triggers the movement.
Has anyone experienced similar before?
I just want to know if anyone has experienced the same issue or whether this is totally my error. I was sitting in the car for a few minutes and thought I was in park mode. I pressed to open the drivers door and the car started to move forward and I've panicked, closed the door and hit the accelerator rather than the break.
So it's clear I made a mistake in trying to correct the issue but I'm confused as to why the car moved off in the first place as I thought the door opening put the car into park automatically and why then was it in drive when I then pressed the wrong pedal. My brake mode is hold so it doesn't ever move forward when I release from the brake, so that can't be the issue either.
I have got the dash cam footage and you can clearly see my door opening just before it starts to move, almost as if the door opening triggers the movement.
Has anyone experienced similar before?