What do you do if you need roadside assistance and your phone does not work?

[MagicDave]

I had a situation a few days ago when my Tesla simply shut down completely, and could not be restarted while I was driving. This was last Thursday during the ATT outage. Fortunately I was able to restart the car enough to park it in a safe parking space. I then was able to go to an adjacent public library with free wifi and use my phone in wifi mode to contact Tesla Roadside assistance. I don't think there is any way to contact Tesla Roadside assistance without a smartphone with the Tesla app, or is there?

 

[father_of_6]

I don't think there is any way to contact Tesla Roadside assistance without a smartphone with the Tesla app, or is there?

You mean like a land line? I found this via the googles:

 

[rpiotro]

Pay phone? Oh, wait.

 

[fholbert]

I had a situation a few days ago when my Tesla simply shut down completely, and could not be restarted while I was driving. This was last Thursday during the ATT outage. Fortunately I was able to restart the car enough to park it in a safe parking space. I then was able to go to an adjacent public library with free wifi and use my phone in wifi mode to contact Tesla Roadside assistance. I don't think there is any way to contact Tesla Roadside assistance without a smartphone with the Tesla app, or is there?

Well, you are in California where we still have these.

 

[father_of_6]

Well, you are in California where we still have these.

Do those only call a single number? (e.g. 911 / emergency roadside service).

 

[fholbert]

Do those only call a single number? (e.g. 911 / emergency roadside service).

Yes, but they will transfer your call to another number. In my case, they connected me to my house.

 

[Stevewaclo]

I’ve survived without a cell phone for a long time. The “kindness of strangers” has yet to disappoint.