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Sounds like this guy is incompetent as a driver, independent of his skill as a car reviewer. Your car breaks down in the highway in California? Call CHP (911
by rdl 13y ago
Sounds like this guy is incompetent as a driver, independent of his skill as a car reviewer.
Your car breaks down in the highway in California? Call CHP (911 should go there)?
Leaving your car visible only from 4-way hazards is...questionable. Flares and/or LED flares and/or marker triangle placed behind the vehicle would allow drivers to notice your disabled vehicle before being a threat. Emplacing flares can be dangerous, though, if traffic isn't already stopped. CHP will do this for you, and is the safest/default option. In civilized parts of the country, commercial truckers or good samaritans may stop to help you if you pull over and have your hood open (I'd personally definitely stop for a Tesla driver, even in LA, just to see what the problem was, and my trunk has emergency stuff like flares, hi-viz jacket, etc..)
Getting out of your disabled car stopped in the roadway or on the shoulder is often unsafe, too, although it depends on where exactly this was; if you could walk off the roadway entirely, sure. Otherwise, getting rear-ended while sitting in a car is far better than being run over outside it.
- geetee 13y agoRelax. He got stuck on the onramp, not the highway. Getting out of your car and away from it is a good idea.
- GeneralMayhem 13y agoI think the justification for getting out/away from the car was that he didn't know what was wrong or what it could develop into. In an ICE car, "disabled" generally means just that. If you can't smell gas or you can tell what happened (stall, flood, etc) the car's going to be safe just sitting there. In a Tesla, once something's gone wrong, who knows what's going to happen? You're probably still safe, but with all the FUD out there I can't blame him for worrying about a leaking or shorted battery blowing up in his and his kid's faces.
- huhtenberg 13y agoC'mon, this is a petty attack and it is completely off the point. Tesla died. Suddenly, in a bad location, after dark, on the first ride. What else do you expect him to say? He is actually quite gallant in how he describes the incident. As pro-Tesla as the situation permits.
- rdl 13y agoI don't mind him being angry with Tesla (writing a bad review, etc. -- that seems fully justified, and he's not a bad writer); I just don't want him leaving a blacked out car unmarked in the middle of a highway where someone else might hit it.
- huhtenberg 13y agoNo, I hear you that he should've put out the triangle 100m behind the car, but you turned that comment into an attack on his character. No fair.