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Deeter says the problems were minor to start. "There were issues with autopilot [not working exactly as advertised] and the driver-side door not opening when you walked up to it."
Given the car's many ongoing enhancements, Deeter looked at them as "little glitches, normal growing pains."
Those pains worsened last week, however. By then, the driver-side door wouldn't open at all, and neither would the car's falcon-wing doors on the driver's side. (Deeter and his family have been entering through the car's passenger side and sliding across.)
By this past Monday night, not only could Deeter not open his car door, but it wouldn't close. "I could manually pull it closed, but it wouldn't latch." In fact, after trying numerous approaches and trying to work through the car's software controls, Deeter found himself driving to a board meeting with one hand on the steering wheel and one holding shut the driver-side door. "It wasn't terribly smart, but I didn't have time to call an Uber."
Then things got worse. This morning, says Deeter, his door wouldn't open. The car's driver-side window wouldn't close. And far worse, when he tried reversing out of his driveway despite these things, the car's emergency brake sprang into action every six feet or so. "I'd put it in park, back it up, then the car would be brought to a stop."
The car is now in his garage. "I'll deal with it later," he says with a laugh.
