Discussion
It's the A36 in Wiltshire.
The car appears to have died on a triangle junction where trafffic can simply dodge around the triangle.
This will have made very little difference to traffic flow on the A36, there are so many other choke points between the M27 and Bath, one more is neither here nor there.
It probably alleviated a little tedium and allowed a few people to point and snigger.
There is only one thing which is generally slower than the A36 from Southampton to Bath, that's the railway from Southampton to Bath. Trains get overtaken by sheep.
The car appears to have died on a triangle junction where trafffic can simply dodge around the triangle.
This will have made very little difference to traffic flow on the A36, there are so many other choke points between the M27 and Bath, one more is neither here nor there.
It probably alleviated a little tedium and allowed a few people to point and snigger.
There is only one thing which is generally slower than the A36 from Southampton to Bath, that's the railway from Southampton to Bath. Trains get overtaken by sheep.
PistonTim said:
No recovery agent is going to drag something like that as it will certainly cause damage, but I don't see why it could be lifted like they do when repossessing vehicles etc.
Unless the Tesla was too heavy for a lift but surely they do it for larger 4x4 which weigh even more?
Looks like a model 3, which is about 1800kg, no heavier than a lot of cars these days.Unless the Tesla was too heavy for a lift but surely they do it for larger 4x4 which weigh even more?
I've got a short story that's relevant here:
Old friend of mine who's a freelance "reporter", sent me a message 4 years ago:
- Friend: Pak, you've got a Tesla, right?
- Me: Yeah
- Friend: I've got an assignment from (insert big newspaper here) to write an article about Telsa for every day in the next 2 weeks. Got anything I could write about?
- Me: In what sense?
- Friend: Doesn't matter, can be good or bad.
ZesPak said:
Looks like a model 3, which is about 1800kg, no heavier than a lot of cars these days.
I've got a short story that's relevant here:
Old friend of mine who's a freelance "reporter", sent me a message 4 years ago:
But any sensible car, you just get a couple of blokes to push it to the side of the road.I've got a short story that's relevant here:
Old friend of mine who's a freelance "reporter", sent me a message 4 years ago:
- Friend: Pak, you've got a Tesla, right?
- Me: Yeah
- Friend: I've got an assignment from (insert big newspaper here) to write an article about Telsa for every day in the next 2 weeks. Got anything I could write about?
- Me: In what sense?
- Friend: Doesn't matter, can be good or bad.
ISTR about 20 years ago, some automatic BMW or Merc blocked 2 lanes of the M3 for 2 hours of 'rush hour' because it refused to be towed or pushed or whatever?
It's not an EV thing, it's a 'designed by cretins' thing.
Personally, I think if you've got a chain to throw around a wheel, and an 8 wheel tipper lorry, there are very few things which cannot be dragged.
OutInTheShed said:
It's not an EV thing, it's a 'designed by cretins' thing.
As mentioned before, there's a trick to get it in "towing" mode or neutral.The issue is indeed if you can't get it to neutral for whatever reason...
That said, as mentioned, it's just an 1800kg car. No reason for it to be on the public road anywhere near that long.
Gassing Station | Tesla | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff