Also somehow the other person just happened to have his phone number according to the article? Feels fake as hell, and it is jalopnik...
“After five, 10 minutes I got a text on my phone that said ‘Rajesh are you driving [a] Tesla,’” he explained to the outlet. Randev went on to say the person who messaged him told him he was driving the wrong car.
The article also explains the person didn't just happen to have his phone number if you continue on:
When the two Tesla owners met up, the rightful owner of the car Randev was driving told him he’d found Randev’s phone number on a document inside Randev’s car.
Overall the original article linked by jalopnik is better written though.
Hang on, does that imply the other person had got into Randev's Tesla somehow? Because it seems like the obvious explanation is that they both unlocked their own Teslas at around the same time, but one of them thought the other person's Tesla was theirs because it was in about the right place and unlocked and drove it away...
The story also discusses both of these points. The other guy did get into his Tesla:
That means, if you’re following along, the other guy was able to gain access to Randev’s Tesla as well.
But it wouldn't make sense both Tesla's were just unlocked and started at the same time since he was later able to unlock and start the Tesla a 2nd time:
The two Tesla owners made a plan to switch the cars back — after Randev picked his kids from school. That’s right: Randev was able to get into the Model 3 that wasn’t his, and drive away, for a second time.
(as a side note both of these are worded much better in the original article). It also says he has video evidence of the issue he was trying to deliver to Tesla but neither article includes that video so I'm not sure I buy a simple solution without evidence the entire thing was just fabricated.
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Also somehow the other person just happened to have his phone number according to the article? Feels fake as hell, and it is jalopnik...
The article also explains the person didn't just happen to have his phone number if you continue on:
Overall the original article linked by jalopnik is better written though.
Hang on, does that imply the other person had got into Randev's Tesla somehow? Because it seems like the obvious explanation is that they both unlocked their own Teslas at around the same time, but one of them thought the other person's Tesla was theirs because it was in about the right place and unlocked and drove it away...
The story also discusses both of these points. The other guy did get into his Tesla:
But it wouldn't make sense both Tesla's were just unlocked and started at the same time since he was later able to unlock and start the Tesla a 2nd time:
(as a side note both of these are worded much better in the original article). It also says he has video evidence of the issue he was trying to deliver to Tesla but neither article includes that video so I'm not sure I buy a simple solution without evidence the entire thing was just fabricated.