It was on friday morning on january 11th 2020 at 8.30am. i was slowly pulling into a parking space in front of my medical office where i have practiced for 21 years. i was in an outdoor parking deck. i touched the brakes to stop the car and the car suddenly accelerated forwards and hit a concrete wall in front of it. i know that i did not hit the accelerator. i was slammed into my steering wheel. my airbag did not deploy. i have been driving for 30 years and have driven a tesla for 5 years. i know the difference between the accelerator and the brake. tesla claims that i put my foot on the accelerator and drove into the concrete wall. that is not what happened. i have serious safety concerns about what happened. the car was out of my control.
I drove to work on may 2, 2019, and was trying to park in my allotted parking stall on the 3rd level of my office parking garage. my parking stall was along the outer edge of the garage and the only barrier to the outside was a set of three (about " diameter) cables strung between outside columns of the garage, besides a thin perforated corrugated metal sheet outside the cables, acting as a rain stop. i was trying to slowly turn right from the parking aisle to park between two pickup trucks on either side of my stall. when i had turned partway into my stall, my tesla suddenly accelerated into my parking stall at high speed, hit the outside cables, rebounded backwards and stopped about 10 feet from the outside cables. the cables saved me from plunging 3 floors down from the garage. there was extensive damage to the hood and front portions of my tesla. there was also some damage to the metal corrugated sheets outside the cables and a slight dent on the corner of the vehicle parked to my right. i have been parking in my office parking stall for about the past six months without any issue like this. i want to know why my car accelerated like that without warning and why the collision warning system was not triggered by the outside corrugated metal sheet. also, there was an issue with my tesla the previous evening. when i tried to start my tesla after work, i got the 'systems are powering..' message on the screen and my car would not start even after a long wait. then, i had to google to find a way to reboot the car computer, by pressing two buttons on the steering wheel. on the day of the accident, i used the intermittent rain sensing wipers for the first time, as there was a light rain. my car is still in the body shop waiting for some back ordered parts. i have asked tesla to do a diagnostics to see if there were any software bugs in the system.
Tl* the contact owns a 2018 tesla model s. while approaching a red light, the speed increased and the vehicle failed to respond when the brake pedal was depressed. the vehicle drove through the traffic light and crashed into a vehicle that was making a left turn. the front driver's air bag and knee air bags deployed. the front driver's side curtain air bags had not deployed. the driver sustained shoulder and back injuries that required medical attention. a police report was filed. the insurance company towed the vehicle to a collision repair facility. the dealer (san diego miramar tesla, 9250 trade pl, san diego, ca 92121, (858) 271-5100) was notified of the crash and the contact was waiting for feedback from the insurance company. the dealer and the manufacturer were waiting to retrieve the information from the electronic data recorder to investigate the cause of the failure. the approximate failure mileage was 49. *bf*jb