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Tesla stuck going 83 mph on California highway, driver says
A California driver says that his Tesla started malfunctioning whereas driving on the freeway, forcing him to go 83 mph on a freeway with none technique to management his accelerator.
Javier Rodriguez, a resident of Irvine, instructed KABC in Los Angeles that his Tesla Mannequin 3’s laptop froze up whereas driving on Interstate 10 — rendering the Tesla’s central touchscreen ineffective, but in addition inflicting the flip alerts, hazard lights and different customary automobile options to malfunction.
“I observed that it began to get sizzling within the automobile and there began to be a bizarre scent coming,” Rodriguez instructed the information station.
Whereas the brakes have been nonetheless operational, Rodriguez instructed KABC, he was involved that he wouldn’t be capable to speed up if he slowed down.
“I used to be nervous someone was going to slam into me,” he mentioned.
And although he was capable of efficiently pull to the aspect of the highway with the assistance of a California Freeway Patrol officer and get towed to get his automobile repaired, Rodriguez mentioned that Tesla didn’t present him many particulars surrounding his automobile’s malfunction.
Tesla mentioned in its report that the reason for the automobile freezing up was “poor communication from cost port door inflicting energy conversion system to close off,” Rodriguez instructed KABC.
Some Tesla Mannequin 3 house owners have reported failures and different points with the facility conversion system on their autos. In 2019, some autos had “service request” pop-ups on their display screen on account of “surprising situations” affecting the facility conversion system.
KABC tried to succeed in out to Tesla’s public relations group — which was quietly dissolved in 2020.
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An earthquake shook along the Southern California coast Friday afternoon.
The earthquake reportedly occurred in Malibu, west of Los Angeles, at 2:15 p.m. local time, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The temblor, which was recorded at a depth of nearly 6 miles, measured a preliminary magnitude of 3.5.
It was not immediately clear if there was any damage.
An atmospheric river dumping rain across Northern California and several feet of snow in the Sierras was making its way across the state Friday, bringing flooding and threatening mudslides along with it.
The storm, the first big one of the season, moved over California as a bomb cyclone, a description of how it rapidly intensified before making its way onshore.
On Thursday, rain poured across the northern edge of the state, slowly moving south. It rained 3.66 inches in Ukiah on Thursday, breaking the record for the city set in 1977 by a half-inch. Santa Rosa Airport saw 4.93 inches of rain on Thursday, shattering the daily record set in 2001 of 0.93 inches.
More rain is due Friday.
Cars are covered in snow during a storm in Soda Springs.
(Brooke Hess-Homeier / Associated Press)
“Prolonged rainfall will result in an increased risk of flooding, an increased risk of landslides, and downed trees and power lines across the North Bay,” the National Weather Service’s Bay Area office wrote in a Friday morning forecast.
After its initial peak, the system is expected to linger into the weekend, with a second wave of rainfall extending farther south across most of the San Francisco Bay Area, down into the Central Coast and possibly reaching parts of Southern California.
On Saturday, Los Angeles and Ventura counties could see anywhere from a tenth to a third of an inch of rain. San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties could see up to an inch in some areas.
A second round of rain expected to begin Sunday could be “a little stronger than the first but still likely in the ‘beneficial rain’ category,” the National Weather Service said in its latest L.A. forecast.
Chances are low of flooding or any other significant issues in Southern California, forecasters said, though roads could be slick and snarl traffic.
Staff writer Grace Toohey contributed to this report.
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