AlanSubie4Life
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Tough to tell from a picture. Looks pretty tight to me, looking at the tire marks on the floor.
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Summon garage accident
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Tough to tell from a picture. Looks pretty tight to me, looking at the tire marks on the floor.
Fossil Fool
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Did you notice how many twists were in that cable?!?Uh, my stupid question time...…. that is a big wide garage. Why use summon anyway? Looks like plenty of room to get out of the car.
As a side note, I noticed the end of the wall charger cable under the rear tire. What's going to happen when she backs out of the garage and runs over that ?
Silicon Desert
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Oh I think I understand what you mean now...….. pulling in with the other T on the left.
I've always been queasy about trying to use summon in a tight garage. Yea, works great for many people, but I am not willing to try it until I stop hearing about unplanned garage remodeling stories
Silicon Desert
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yes, but I thought is was just because he wanted to slow down the electrons and make them dizzy so the car would charge slower.
I've lost count of how many things that didn't work correctly in my life...computer, smartphone, wifi, software...were all the result of my user error.
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Silicon Desert
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yes, but I thought is was just because he wanted to slow down the electrons and make them dizzy so the car would charge slower.
That’s what actually happens due to the increased inductance (coiled wire).
Hmm. Could she have summoned the car over the cable and had the traction control kick in, twisting the cable like that and causing the car to lurch a bit?
Yeah...
On another note,I don't even know what this "require continuous press" thing is. My summon only works with continuous press. Maybe a Canada thing...
M109Rider
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That’s a Canada thing. We don’t have the option.
We also won’t get advanced summon either.
Our ministry regulators suck.
Sorry this happened to you. Did the car really 'lurch' forward though? Whenever I used summon, it never lurched, almost painfully slow crawl actually.
If the car can now lurch when starting summon, then we may have finally solved the countless posts about 'Sudden Unexpected Acceleration'
I doubted my wife's account, but I don't see how the 2x4 would break in three paces instead of just at the top where the shelf provides leverage.
And yes, I agree on the painfully slow. I have intentionally backed my X into the garage wall (power cord limitation), it is near impossible to do.
AlanSubie4Life
Efficiency Obsessed Member
With the weight on the shelves, that 2x4 should have been pinned top and bottom (by friction) and the nose of the Model 3 would be the fulcrum.
Still curious about the details of your wife's Summon setup: 1) Continuous Press 2) Initiated from in the Vehicle? 3) Distance settings 4) Key fob or phone?
I hit the dashcam button after she got me outside, but it was too late. She had backed it up a little using summon before getting me, and as I posted, our LTE is spotty and requires many starts and stops and restarts to use it. I wish they would make a basic summon that only requires bluetooth.
I will have to verify wife's settings, but they should be the same as mine - continuous press and max range (35 ft?). I don't understand the initiation question, she was standing behind and connecting through the app.
Would love for a Tesla engineer to download data and weigh in on my wife's tale. I can only think of a velocity impact knocking a section out of a 2x4 that is not constrained at the floor.
Uh, my stupid question time...…. that is a big wide garage. Why use summon anyway? Looks like plenty of room to get out of the car.
As a side note, I noticed the end of the wall charger cable under the rear tire. What's going to happen when she backs out of the garage and runs over that ?
That is the reason for this mess. My X got side swiped Sunday night and we would normally drive that, it will be sitting until November
AlanSubie4Life
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I'm going to say that for the 2x4, didn't look like the wood was in the best of condition. But also I don't see how it could not be constrained at the floor - it clearly (based on the position of the shelves after removal) had a lot of compressive forces on it. Would be hard to push it to the side due to friction with the floor - and if it bent only at the top (say no friction from the bottom), then the effective lengthening of the wood (due to the flat bottom having to trace out an arc) would definitely create enormous friction, since there would be no room for lengthening.
Short story, no mysteries there. Not clear that it would have to be moving all that fast to break the wood if it were brittle. It would just have to deform the wood.
If Continuous press is OFF, then it is possible to initiate Summon from inside the car with two Park presses, and it will take off after you close the door (you have to be very confident to use this mode I think!).
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AlanSubie4Life
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