I just had something very scary and dangerous happen less than two hours ago that hopefully never occurs again. I live in San Francisco and I was visiting a storage facility on Treasure Island. I was returning to San Francisco by merging via a stop sign directly on to I-80 West. For people who know this freeway entrance, it is very abrupt and you need to go from 0-60mph very quickly to merge into oncoming traffic that is coming out of the Yerba Buena Island tunnel. This of course is no problem for the P90DL, or a number of other cars I have driven on this route before.
So I see a more than adequate opening between cars coming up, wait for the first car to pass, and then step on the accelerator from my dead stop. For a fraction of a second the car begins to accelerate, and then nothing. I step on the gas several more times very quickly as the car has now rolled out into the lane with a car closing on me at 60+ mph, and still nothing happens. I hear a warning sound and look down at the console and there is a warning symbol and it is telling me that there is an "obstacle detected", and I can see that the right front corner sensor is at the whitish yellow level - which is not even close to anything by San Francisco driving and road width standards.
The second car swerves to the next lane over and whizzes by me. After a couple of seconds the accelerator seems to work again and I am able to drive away.
This car disabling the accelerator because it thought it might be close to something has to be one of the worst and most unsafe UI choices I have ever seen. I could have easily been rear ended as well as injured the driver behind me. I would much rather have the car let me drive into it's imaginary wall than ignore my inputs at such a critical moment.
I called support and Tesla has the logs now, so hopefully they can get to the bottom of what happened. Otherwise, everything seems normal about the car, but I may have some trust issues with it for a while...
So I see a more than adequate opening between cars coming up, wait for the first car to pass, and then step on the accelerator from my dead stop. For a fraction of a second the car begins to accelerate, and then nothing. I step on the gas several more times very quickly as the car has now rolled out into the lane with a car closing on me at 60+ mph, and still nothing happens. I hear a warning sound and look down at the console and there is a warning symbol and it is telling me that there is an "obstacle detected", and I can see that the right front corner sensor is at the whitish yellow level - which is not even close to anything by San Francisco driving and road width standards.
The second car swerves to the next lane over and whizzes by me. After a couple of seconds the accelerator seems to work again and I am able to drive away.
This car disabling the accelerator because it thought it might be close to something has to be one of the worst and most unsafe UI choices I have ever seen. I could have easily been rear ended as well as injured the driver behind me. I would much rather have the car let me drive into it's imaginary wall than ignore my inputs at such a critical moment.
I called support and Tesla has the logs now, so hopefully they can get to the bottom of what happened. Otherwise, everything seems normal about the car, but I may have some trust issues with it for a while...