Hi folks,
Long-time lurker, first time poster. I took delivery of my first Tesla (a P85D) last night and had a weird, scary experience about which I hope someone can enlighten me. The P85D was delivered on a truck (long story about wanting to take "delivery" in 2014 for tax purposes, so I had to have the car shipped directly to my house) last night around 8 PM:
I inspected it with a flashlight and found no issues except dirt and rain, so I signed and took it for a quick test drive with over 150 rated miles in the battery. I drove slowly, carefully down my hill in the cool fog (around 42 degrees F) to a flat, straight empty road and did a 0 - 70 mph test in Sport mode (not Insane). I then drove another mile or so, never above 70, mostly around 40, turned around and headed home. About a mile and a half from my house I accidentally pressed the Park button and the car said I was going too fast to Park (or something to that effect). I shrugged it off and kept driving normally for another mile or so, at about 40-45 mph.
As I slowed to turn on my street, the car would no longer react to accelerator pedal input. No matter how hard or soft I pressed on the peddle (I was NOT pressing on the brake), the car just kept gradually slowing down to a stop. I pulled over to the side of the road, applied the brake, put the car in Park, then pressed the brake pedal again, put the car in Drive and drove off normally home and parked the car for the night. "Phew!" I thought. I checked and there was about 145 rated miles left, so it was not a factor of a glitchy rated mileage reading when I set out.
Was this just a factor of me pressing the Park button accidentally and the car reacting to that once I reached a slow enough speed, or is this something I need to worry about and inform my Tesla service folks about?
If the former, what is the logic behind it? It seems somewhat easy, especially for noobs like me trying to figure out all the new controls and such, to press Park at higher speed and then find ourselves "losing power" and unable to accelerate (let alone keep up road speed) much later on when we don't associate it with the accidental pressing of the Park button. Seems like a weird behavior to me, but maybe there's some reason I'm missing.
Otherwise the first day with the car has been good - although I've only had time to drive to work and back, so I'm still under 40 miles on the car. I'm still getting used to the feel of the car, and will need a lot longer with the car until I have a sense of all of its nuances, but that experience really freaked me out.
Thank you for any insights!
Woland / Wayne
Long-time lurker, first time poster. I took delivery of my first Tesla (a P85D) last night and had a weird, scary experience about which I hope someone can enlighten me. The P85D was delivered on a truck (long story about wanting to take "delivery" in 2014 for tax purposes, so I had to have the car shipped directly to my house) last night around 8 PM:
I inspected it with a flashlight and found no issues except dirt and rain, so I signed and took it for a quick test drive with over 150 rated miles in the battery. I drove slowly, carefully down my hill in the cool fog (around 42 degrees F) to a flat, straight empty road and did a 0 - 70 mph test in Sport mode (not Insane). I then drove another mile or so, never above 70, mostly around 40, turned around and headed home. About a mile and a half from my house I accidentally pressed the Park button and the car said I was going too fast to Park (or something to that effect). I shrugged it off and kept driving normally for another mile or so, at about 40-45 mph.
As I slowed to turn on my street, the car would no longer react to accelerator pedal input. No matter how hard or soft I pressed on the peddle (I was NOT pressing on the brake), the car just kept gradually slowing down to a stop. I pulled over to the side of the road, applied the brake, put the car in Park, then pressed the brake pedal again, put the car in Drive and drove off normally home and parked the car for the night. "Phew!" I thought. I checked and there was about 145 rated miles left, so it was not a factor of a glitchy rated mileage reading when I set out.
Was this just a factor of me pressing the Park button accidentally and the car reacting to that once I reached a slow enough speed, or is this something I need to worry about and inform my Tesla service folks about?
If the former, what is the logic behind it? It seems somewhat easy, especially for noobs like me trying to figure out all the new controls and such, to press Park at higher speed and then find ourselves "losing power" and unable to accelerate (let alone keep up road speed) much later on when we don't associate it with the accidental pressing of the Park button. Seems like a weird behavior to me, but maybe there's some reason I'm missing.
Otherwise the first day with the car has been good - although I've only had time to drive to work and back, so I'm still under 40 miles on the car. I'm still getting used to the feel of the car, and will need a lot longer with the car until I have a sense of all of its nuances, but that experience really freaked me out.
Thank you for any insights!
Woland / Wayne