Silicon Desert
Well-Known Member
Sounds like a personal guess rather than a statistic.99.9% of “unintended accelerants” will answer these questions wrong because either: they can’t remember, they remember wrong, or they refuse to admit error.
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Sounds like a personal guess rather than a statistic.99.9% of “unintended accelerants” will answer these questions wrong because either: they can’t remember, they remember wrong, or they refuse to admit error.
Sounds like a personal guess rather than a statistic.
This just happened to me today when waiting for a car to back out so I can take the parking spot. While pulling a right into the parking spot, I experienced the car accelerating unintentionally during the turn. Good thing i had my foot on the brake and stopped the car. The parking spot/lot is pretty flat.
I've always been concerned about those situations, whether I might accidentally press the "go" pedal and not the brake, but it seems to me that my foot has no issue feathering the throttle to brake, but when emergency braking is required, it still does the trained behavior of reaching left and hitting the brake.So my experience with unintended acceleration -
- model 3
- hold mode
- I was parking on the side of the road
- slight bump coming off the pavement into the grass/dirt
the bump caused my foot to go down on the go pedal just a touch and the car moved forward faster than I expected.
my first reaction was to press the go pedal harder. Luckily there was room in front and I pulled my head out of my butt quickly and lifted off the go pedal.
Every other car I’ve recently driven I would have had my foot on the brake at that point. Generally letting the automatic transmission pull the car forward on its own.
I've found with our Model S that it's easy to press both pedals at once if my foot is angled wrong. And the car will try to surge ahead even though I'm pressing the brake. So that could happen too.This just happened to me today when waiting for a car to back out so I can take the parking spot. While pulling a right into the parking spot, I experienced the car accelerating unintentionally during the turn. Good thing i had my foot on the brake and stopped the car. The parking spot/lot is pretty flat.
I have also done this & sometimes it gives me quite a shock. This would be worse on the 3/Y where it just goes to the speed limit + offset unlike the S/X where it will go to your current speed if you push the stalk down.Happened to me before. Ended up me accidentally hitting the cruise control/AP stalk and the car going to the preset speed.
I had already stepped on accelerator to move the car forward, took my foot off accelerator and moved it to brake during the turn. That’s when I felt the unintended acceleration and stepped on brake. I use hold mode.For Clarity:
You said your foot was on the brake already.
Does that mean you had already pressed the accelerator, and you were already pulling into the parking spot, and you moved your foot to the brake to now come to a stop, and it accelerated ?
Or did you have your foot on the brake, waiting to move your foot to the accelerator to move into the parking spot, and the car accelerated, while your foot was still on the brake. ?
Also, which drive mode do you have set for your car; “Hold”, or “Roll” or “Creep”.
I had already stepped on accelerator to move the car forward, took my foot off accelerator and moved it to brake during the turn. That’s when I felt the unintended acceleration and stepped on brake. I use hold mode.
My foot was definitely on the brake side and stopped the car when it lurched forward. If I was on the accelerator, I would’ve gone over the parking divider and hit the car in front. I don’t recall hitting the gear lever, never had any issues miss hitting the gear lever.If you pressed the brake that would have turned off any TACC or AP- in fact in hold mode it would be slowing down from regen- so it's impossible the car could have accelerated at that point other than either you hitting the accelerator thinking it was the brake, or you hitting the TACC-on lever during turning.
IIRC Jason Hughes has a standing $10,000 bet that nobody can show him a Tesla with logs that say otherwise (he's one of the better known hackers who can pull such logs and check)
My foot was definitely on the brake side and stopped the car when it lurched forward.
Nope.
The accelerators input is ignored if the brake is engaged.
TACC and AP can not be turned on if your foot is on the brake.
There's literally nothing that can cause acceleration if your foot is on the brake.
(barring an exterior object hitting the car from behind or something)
So you can't have been on the brake pedal when the car accelerated.
But if you think otherwise contact Jason Hughes and tell him you think you qualify for his $10,000 bet.
He's run the logs from dozens of such claims. 100% of them was someone hit the wrong pedal and refused to believe it till shown the logs.
Tesla Hacker Says Unintended Acceleration Is Impossible In Teslas
As I said, I’ve moved my foot off the accelerator and set it (not stepped) on brake during the turn, felt acceleration, stepped on brake to stop the car. Have I not been on the brake, or on the accelerator, I would’ve went over divider into the car ahead.
Its interesting that so many people claim the same thing happened. Maybe tesla should push an OTA to disable TACC at low speeds if that’s a problem people are having?
Its interesting that so many people claim the same thing happened. Maybe tesla should push an OTA to disable TACC at low speeds if that’s a problem people are having?
There have been zillions of documented cases of unintended acceleration. Each of them has been shown to be inadvertently commanded acceleration.Has anyone confirmed ONE proven case of unintended acceleration yet?
Why are there so many? Who keeps reporting this stuff? And if there are so many, why not just OTA a fix?There have been zillions of documented cases of unintended acceleration. Each of them has been shown to be inadvertently commanded acceleration.