Sure, the Tesla Model 3 may be a very good car but it couldn’t prevent the owner of this particular example from ending up in a rather embarrassing spot.
This photo was recently shared to Reddit where it quickly gained plenty of attention, getting more than 7,300 upvotes and generating hundreds of comments. It shows a grey Model 3 stuck on a concrete lane divider outside a Tim Horton’s in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada.
It’s unclear how exactly the Tesla ended up in this precarious position. A look on Google Maps reveals that the triangular hump is located between the entry and exit lanes into the Tim Horton’s. The Tesla’s underbelly can be seen resting on the concrete hump with its two front wheels suspended above the pavement while the two rear wheels are wedged against a second hump.
Making the photo even funnier is the embarrassed look on the face of the driver. She clearly wasn’t very happy about someone taking a photo of her and the stranded Tesla.
We can think of two possible explanations for how the Tesla may have ended up here. The first is that the driver may have inadvertently reversed over the hump or may have been late to make a right turn into the entry lane and thought the EV would be able to drive over the humps. Either way, it’s inevitable that the car would have been left with some damage to its undertray but that pales in comparison to the embarrassment the driver probably felt.
