Imagine taking your key out of your pocket, pushing the button and getting into your Tesla only to realize a few minutes later that everything in your car is slightly off. The radio station is different, your Burger King cup is gone and it smells weird. Well, we can’t say that’s exactly what happened, but something similar happened to a man in Vancouver who accidentally opened someone else’s Tesla Model 3, thinking it was his and drove away.
How can you unlock someone else’s Tesla Model 3?
Isn’t it strange to walk up to a car similar to the one you drive and go to the door only to find that it won’t unlock. Until this story, I didn’t think much about it, but it should happen a lot more often to Tesla drivers. There are so few colors and trim options that most Teslas look like someone else’s Tesla.
According to CarScoops, a Vancouver man used the Tesla app on his smartphone to unlock what he believed was his car. Immigration consultant Rajesh Randev told Canada global news that the problem started when he went to get in his car and found it parked next to another Model 3 of the same color. However, the car he got into was not his. He noticed a small crack in the windshield that wasn’t there before he parked. He then realized that his phone charger was gone.
Can you accidentally steal a car?
While Randev was driving his accidentally stolen Tesla Model 3, he received a message from an unknown number asking if he was driving a Tesla. The text message urged Randev to get in touch with him as soon as possible.
The Tesla owner whose car dropped him off for Randev allegedly found a sheet of paper left on the seat with Randev’s phone number on it. Randev claims that he was in a hurry to pick up his children from school, which likely led to the error. But since Randev was running late, he decided to drive to his children’s school and pick them up in his Bizzaro-World Tesla. As soon as his children were caught, he returned to the crime scene not exactly.
“We were both laughing and I called the police too,” Randev said. global news. “The police said they have my statement but they cannot give me the file number because nothing happened.”
Randev says that after the disaster, he reached out to Tesla to alert them to the problem, but got no response.
Even locked doors open
This oddity of this situation is one that feels like a big Tesla energy. These days, Tesla and the very smart but flawed technology seem to have congealed into an inseparable hodgepodge of headlines. Autopilot, headlines, steering wheels falling off, phone apps unlocking the wrong car, and so on. Tesla’s story seems far from over, but the technology pioneer has become the brand that keeps getting eggs in the face and posting pictures on Twitter.
At least in this recent Tesla crash, no one was killed or collided with an ambulance. That harmless technological hiccup ended well, and both parties got a good story out of it.