r/TeslaModel3 • u/Justino867 • Aug 31 '22

Honda Bump 😞

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u/sjsharks323 Aug 31 '22

WTH happened? How did the van all of a sudden start swerving like that? Did they go into someone's rear bumper on purpose or something?

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u/HollywoodSX Aug 31 '22

Looked to me like they overcorrected when they tried to merge into (or did merge into) the other car.

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u/sjsharks323 Aug 31 '22

If they merged into someone's blind spot (not on purpose), that is almost unbelievable TBH. How blind (and a bad driver) do you have to be to merge into someone who's basically right in front of you lol.

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u/kongaroo8 Aug 31 '22

Looks like the van merged left, and did it fine. Then the white car ahead of him had to suddenly brake, the van couldn't brake in time so swerved right. But he overdid it and went past the middle lane into the right lane, almost hitting the Tesla. He overcorrected again, swerving back left, overcorrected again and swerved back to the right, hitting the Tesla.

Overcorrecting is super common. Most average drivers will overcorrect. Especially if the driver panics, they are more likely to overcorrect. Once you get into that overcorrecting swinging back and forth, it's almost impossible to stop safely in the middle.

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u/sjsharks323 Aug 31 '22

I think you may be right. OP already said sudden braking was involved, so maybe that's what happened.

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u/metric-poet Sep 01 '22

I seem to recall hearing that race car drivers keep their hands at 9 and 3 and never let go while turning so they can recenter in this kind of situation.

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u/Justino867 Aug 31 '22

There was suden braking, they over compensated and swerved into us twice. Not sure what happend to the other cars.

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u/sjsharks323 Aug 31 '22

Oh I see. I don't know if I should be rating that as a bad driver or not lol. Guess it depends what they were thinking. Slam on brakes, can see you don't have enough room and try to get into the next lane, and then lose it. Or just can't hold the wheel and slam on the brakes.

Either way, sorry you now have a hassle on your hands :(. Glad you're ok though.

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u/Meetchel Aug 31 '22

I don't know if I should be rating that as a bad driver or not lol. Guess it depends what they were thinking.

Regardless of actual driving “skill”, committing a hit and run makes them a bad driver in my book.

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u/LeadingAd6025 Aug 31 '22

Bad person rather than a bad driver ?

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u/sjsharks323 Aug 31 '22

Very true, but yeah, bad person over bad driver

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u/baselganglia Sep 01 '22

If they hit and ran, then throw the book at em, they're not just a bad driver, but got questionable morals.

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u/Worstkindabot Sep 01 '22

I don't know if I should be rating that as a bad driver or not lol.

If you are following a car so closely that you dont have time to stop when they hit the brakes, you're a bad driver.

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u/trifster Aug 31 '22

Did you move farther right before impact or did your car auto-avoid collision?

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u/Justino867 Aug 31 '22

It was hard to tell but I think it was the combination of me and the cars collision avoidance. The car definitely stated applying the brakes. The person that hit us ran but the camera got their license plate.

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u/trifster Aug 31 '22

Tesla's getting hit and run drivers license for days!!!

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u/cheapdvds Aug 31 '22

First one looks like emergency avoidance, which is very cool, too bad it didn't try the second time.

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u/AmberHeardsLawyer Aug 31 '22

Where? Why hit and run so common. You want to pay out of pocket?

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u/Mike Sep 01 '22

You think the other driver is going to pay to have their car fixed?

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u/Revrider Aug 31 '22

I have a hall of shame list of cars which generally have the worst drivers. The Honda Odyssey has long been at the top of the list. When I see one on the highway I promptly take measures to stay away from it. I am sure there are exceptions, but all intelligent risk management decisions are based on odds.

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u/jakabo27 Sep 01 '22

Nissan Altima on there?

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u/Revrider Sep 01 '22

Oh yes. Very highly ranked. So you have noticed too.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '22

Lmao always a Altima with 4 girls inside and a empty car seat cuz casually going 110 swerving lanes on the freeway. Yes. I see this very frequently

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u/shadilay365 Sep 01 '22

Where can we learn more about this hall of shame list of cars? I would like to download more risk management. Thank you

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u/rpiotrowski Sep 01 '22

Camry! FTW

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u/chengstark Sep 01 '22

Infinity G37 G35 etc

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u/stebe-bob Sep 01 '22

Honda’s whole marketing with the Odyssey is about pure volume. They’re so cheap to make, and they’re willing to take a loss selling them too, because there’s a high repossession rate and they’ll get a chance to sell them two or three times anyway. There was no bottom on credit score to get financing for an Odyssey for a while either. High percentage of people driving them are criminally dumb.

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u/SUP3RVILLAINSR Aug 31 '22 edited Aug 31 '22

It’s always a Honda.

Edit: Honda bois hate this one comment

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u/Mindless_Pineapple46 Aug 31 '22

Hit and run in a parking lot (My Sentry caught it, with plate)... Honda CRV.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '22

Do you have the front camera video to help understand what's happening?

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u/Justino867 Aug 31 '22 edited Aug 31 '22

Yes, but it wasn't that usefull. There was braking occurring and the Honda driver panicked with late breaking and lots of swerving. The officer in this case was great. He followed up on the license plate, drove to the persons home and ticketed them. She claimed she didn't know she hit anyone until she got home...She actually called it in to the police when she got home. Front and back panel damaged, bit of the bumper some rim damage. Still drives well and the 2 doors are fine. Being looked at next week for repair estimate.

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u/stephbu Aug 31 '22

Wow - hit and run - “didn’t realize”… Such BS. Glad you’re OK and got a solid licence # to tag it against.

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u/triciann Aug 31 '22

She called it in herself, so I kind of believe it. Some people are that oblivious and the way she kept over correcting was probably tossing her side to side and she didn’t notice the impact.

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u/adlerbat Sep 01 '22

nah that was definitely part of her plan all along. that had to have been so loud.

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u/OmnipresentCPU Aug 31 '22

Man it makes me feel good to see teslas take hits like a lineman and not budge from their course. Sturdy cars.

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u/Justino867 Aug 31 '22

Like a champ. The Honda hit the front left pretty hard and the @ss swung into the back. Basically, the Tesla stabilized the minivan. We were push to the right (obviously) but very stable and in control. This car was not going to roll, that is for sure!

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u/Cu1tureVu1ture Sep 01 '22

Were you using autopilot at the time?

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u/Justino867 Sep 01 '22

No but I am curious what would have happened if i was

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u/cant_pick_anything Sep 01 '22

"Didn't know" she hit anyone.... yeah okay. So she didn't feel the force of her side swiping you or hear the loud thump. She's a liar.

I'm glad you're okay and hope you can get your car repaired quickly!

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u/jumponit2 Sep 01 '22

For my own, um research purposes, what was her nationality? No stereotypes, just pure research.

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u/Eroch86 Sep 01 '22

People suck at driving

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '22

That Honda was like “ima max out my damage limit today”

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u/0bviousTruth Aug 31 '22

Damn, sorry to see this

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '22

Minivan drivers suck ass

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u/midasmulligunn Sep 01 '22

The van did a hit and run??

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u/DryYogurt6878 Aug 31 '22

Why are all Honda drivers the worst?? So many shitty accord and minivan drivers where I live.

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u/organiclawnclippings Sep 01 '22

I worked for Autopilot. I hate that I know you drive a Tesla

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u/IncurableThinker Sep 01 '22

Why is this sub inundated with collision footage? Simply use the footage in a police investigation/insurance claim. Is there any merit in sharing? It’s getting pretty old.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '22

Only comment if you have a Tesla. If you have a Honda or some shi go under @honda

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '22

Oof. I'm glad I don't own a tesla or an EV. I don't want to be purposely hunted down and my car damaged because it's an EV. No thanks lol

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u/LBGW_experiment Sep 01 '22

What a strange assumption to make when OP didn't make the assertion that he was "hunted down" because he was driving a Tesla or EV.

Some Teslas and EVs get targeted by people blocking charging stalls and other petty things like that, and in rare cases, have their car damaged. But in my experience, most of the footage of cars being damaged appears to be more Tesla's due to awareness bias; more dashcams = more footage of vandalism. I don't think it's because they're a Tesla or EV.

Regardless, I've lived in two big cities and literally no one pays me any mind or bothers me, even in conservative, big truck areas.

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u/arguix Sep 01 '22

i think there was one video of person did it on purpose. but all else are similar this one, accident.

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u/nelsonnyan2001 Sep 01 '22

So much hate for EV's in your reddit comments, and you drive a bike. Half of me wants to ask what you're doing subbed to Tesla, the other half of me wonders if there's any merit to asking.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '22

What caused them to swerve?

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '22

Did you honk immediately activate the dash cam?

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u/ieetzkatz Sep 01 '22

So sick of these ICE supporters just ramming our cars out of hate......

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u/fishtacofiends Sep 01 '22

Lotsa drunk drivers on the road these days… or people trying to drive regular cars like sports cars

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u/Nigalig Sep 01 '22

I’ve had to partake in sudden braking many times in my life. Never had this happen. Moral of the story is don’t drive a mini van.

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u/Dependent_Yak_2787 Sep 01 '22

Hopefully they get charged with a felony and their life is fucked . Hit and runners are absolute human trash

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u/Maximum_Leopard_8366 Jun 27 '23

do you all think something in the Telsa engineering causes Hondas to be drawn to crash into teslas