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Rear Ended Monday
- Thread starter SergioC
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I know the brake lights come on when regen. but not sure about the third light. Either way in this case the driver told me and the officer he seen us brake, but he said we slammed brakes on... which obvi we did not. didn't matter he needs to leave himself room and control his truck. Dash cam in my pocket if it becomes an issue.
Wow that is very similar, sorry to hear that.... hope your ok as well though. I would think total but have to wait and see, shop has it now....
Original State Farm estimate was $11,800.00 when they had it towed to a Tesla Authorized repair center the estimate was $49,775.75
I think the footage is pretty clear who was at fault but I agree the rear camera would help, especially if one can tell if the driver was distracted from the footage. Elon? Tesla? anyone reviewing the forums?
When the car applies regenerative braking it automatically puts the brake lights on to warn drivers even if you do not touch the brake peddle, watch the display and you can see them go on.
I would say. yeah that amount is a total, did you get Replacement value or just the Actual Cash Value?
Yes already done, I agree with you, pain to drive ICE, I do most of the driving and we never take my wifes car anymore, the kids of course love the M3 especially the fart noise of course... I have to re-learn even though it is only been 2 months... I will report back if total or repair and my struggles I know I am going to face with negotiation...
Yeah that was the State Farm adjuster not knowing what he was doing with a Tesla, or not having the appropriate tools to appropriately estimate the damage.
My advice is to get a lawyer involved when there is ANY bodily injury involved. This is based on experience, unfortunately. Your insurance will press you for a settlement in their benefit (not necessarily yours) at some point, and the lawyer can more aggressively go after the truck company.
I told the adjuster, If all the Damage only cost $12,000 then Tesla is making one giant profit on the car !
Just for a bit of technical discussion on this... brake lights equals car slowing down rapidly, or brake pedal pressed.... Regen does not explicitly mean brake light activation. During regen, brake light activation is determined by...no one knows...BUT...I and other suspect that it is based on, at least in part by rate of deceleration.
Using the brake light animation as the guide you can see this.
Using reflection from vehicle behind you in stop and go traffic you can empirically see this.
This feature barely came out half year ago, takes time especially have to redo with AP3.
I don't understand how they can flip on all the other cameras but it's too difficult to do it with reverse camera. We can toggle it on and off at will when we drive, so I cannot fathom how or why it wouldn't be possible to record what can be viewed on the screen when driving. It's illogical and without any explanation from Tesla it makes zero sense. The front and rear view cameras would be by far the most helpful in the majority of accidents especially when you get rear ended.
I suspect they don’t want more than 3 recording due to limited processing resources. Total speculation on my part, but not unreasonable. As far as which 3 cameras to use: The side repeater cameras offer some rear views and a great view of the blind spots. Accidents involving blind spots are harder to prove fault than rear ended accidents. Having the repeater cameras recoding solves this problem. That’s my 2 cents.
so the car is absolutely showing the cars directly behind you on the screen when driving. Is that radar only and no camera? They say is has 360 degree visibility and the dash readout shows it does. Just not sure if it is all camera or some is radar only.
