On 1/19/20 at 1623 phoenix time while coming to a stop on a surface street the car suddenly accelerated. prompt application of the breaks prevented an accident. this is the first time this has happened.
On saturday 5/11/2019 around 12:45pm while i was driving on the highway the car suddenly made a loud sound then the car shut down in the middle of the highway leaving me stuck. the car would not go into gear. the car display an error on the center console "unable to drive, please proceed to safety" (something like this) i did not take a photo since i was concerned about being rear ended. i had to call 911 to stop all traffic so the car could be pushed off the highway. as we were about to push the car it started working again. i will be taking the car into tesla service so they can try to determine why this occurred. this could have caused a major accident to myself and others if this happened during non rush hour traffic.
I was making a legal u turn on a city street to park. i pulled behind a parked car and was going about 1mph when my car suddenly accelerated and hit the parked car. there were no warning sounds until the car hit the other car and then the horn and lights on my car went off. the car was not on auto park and no air bags were deployed however my car and the car that was hit had extensive body damage. there were not injuries to people. i don't know why the car accelerated instead of stopping. i have never hit the accelerator peddle instead of the brake and i doubt if i did it in this case.
Here is a tesla in the junkyard: https://www.copart.com/lot/22469458 the suspension has colllollopsed. the front wheels are all brutalised! all the damage appears to be self inflicted after the suspension went whompy. please investigate. thank you. concerned senior citizen. etc etc.
This is a complaint about the issue of fires in the tesla cars. there was an investigation into the fires in 2013. tesla claimed that the fires were started by an object puncturing the battery pack and that the problem had been solved by the addition of a battery shield. since that time there have been dozens more tesla fires. it is obvious from looking at videos of fires that in most cases it is not the batteries burning (they burn with a white flame and with cells exploding like fire-crackers) in almost every case it is the coolant fluid that is burning. propylene glycol is flammable. even when diluted with water 50:50 it is still flammable when there is sufficient heat to boil off the water content. when the battery cells are hot from recent charging or from hard driving then there is sufficient thermal mass to boil off the fluid especially if the radiator pressure is lost. the tesla radiators and fluid hoses are at the front of the vehicle and are highly vulnerable to impact damage. teslas contain over 6 gallons of flammable glycol. the batteries themselves will not self ignite unless they are crushed in a heavy impact. the risk of fires from a leakage of hot propylene glycol is far greater. a google image search for tesla fire shows dozens of cases where pools of fluid are burning on the ground beneath the car and the front of the car is engulfed in flames. most of these fires are not accompanied by battery pyrotechnics they are simply coolant fires. please reopen the fire investigation.