SpareHeadOne
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As others have noted this isn't limited to Tesla and it doesn't seem to be because it's "heavy" either.
Here's a video of a Fiesta sliding away in snow, complete with misleading caption saying the "driver forgot to put it in park", when we can be pretty sure it's a manual and you can see that the rear wheels do not rotate suggesting that the handbrake is on.
I suspect this is a combination of pressure from the weight of any vehicle, heat from warm tyres and gravity.
The plugged-in Tesla might be heat from the battery when charging, but I don't enough background on that particular story to say, it could just be the same thing.
I work with a guy who told me many years ago that when it snows he has to park on the street as his drive slopes towards his house and he's had a car slide into the garage door on previous occasions, so it's definitely not a new phenomenon.
Here's a video of a Fiesta sliding away in snow, complete with misleading caption saying the "driver forgot to put it in park", when we can be pretty sure it's a manual and you can see that the rear wheels do not rotate suggesting that the handbrake is on.
I suspect this is a combination of pressure from the weight of any vehicle, heat from warm tyres and gravity.
The plugged-in Tesla might be heat from the battery when charging, but I don't enough background on that particular story to say, it could just be the same thing.
I work with a guy who told me many years ago that when it snows he has to park on the street as his drive slopes towards his house and he's had a car slide into the garage door on previous occasions, so it's definitely not a new phenomenon.