Anyone who has ever experienced a blocked brake pedal know how helpless you feel when you can’t slow down. You can avoid this:
This article was initially posted to this blog in german but looks like the story made it to the english speaking area as well. This is why I post this in english again. Original (GER) version here. Due to time limitations I had to choose the AI based auto-translation.
Then I have to slow down slightly. Walk from the current pedal recuperated beautiful. Suddenly a still prefers me in and my feet fast on the brakes, but the pedal can not be pass. Blocked by a water bottle.
The view under the seat of the Model X is:
Thanks to the flat car floor of the Model X and the high seating position also larger items – depending on seat height adjustment and a 1.5l bottle by rolling under the seat – and thus block brake and power pedal.
Anyone who has experienced such a situation “out of the blue” again wants to avoid at all costs in the future.
Contacting Tesla
My contact at the end of December Tesla on the subject was indeed answered that one grateful for the hint, but further nothing happened:
From: me Sent: Friday, December 29, 2017 2:21 PM To: ServiceHelpEU < ServiceHelpEU@tesla.com > Subject: Security concerns - due to flat floor between drivers-foot room and 2.nd row footroom, things like bottles rolling under the breake / acc pedal and block breaking / acceleration Dear Support, I would like to raise a security concern - due to flat floor between drivers-foot room and 2.nd row footroom, things like bottles (and all other things) rolling under the breake / acc pedal and block breaking / acceleration while breaking. Happened several times now for me. Example: we have two little kids. One drops the bottle, with the next braking, the bottle rolls under the pedalery and blocks Further breaking / acceleration. This is really, really dangerous. Please fix this while placing some kind of (spider-) net or a "wall" under the drivers seat to avoid that "things" are moving in the drivers foot room area. This topic is so important, I would like to get an answer from you, how do you see this. Kind regards and happy new year, Morell If you would like to read some more experiences - refer to my blog: www.morellife.com/modelx
From: ServiceHelpEU <ServiceHelpEU@tesla.com> Sent: Saturday, 30 December 2017 03:41 To: me Subject: RE: security concerns Hello, thank you for Contacting Customer Support Tesla. Tesla is always curious about people's ideas to improve the Tesla experience even more Because we want to build the best cars in the world. Your idea sounds like one That Could bring us closer to this goal. I will forward your suggestion to our engineering team. This does not Necessarily mean thatthis single request will be processed. The Product Management will prioritize and based on the number of request theywill consider if this will be changed in one of the future firmware releases. Thank you for your interest and for sharing your innovative creativity. Kind regards ... , Prename, name (changed) | EMEA Customer Support Specialist Our team is available for all your questions 24/7, 365 days a year.
Now, half a year has passed and the part of Tesla nothing happens. (update Sept-2018 August 2019- nothing happened, even the latest Version of Model X “RAVEN” still have this flaw and Bottle Block fits perfectly.)
Creation of Bottle-Block.com
So I am myself become active and have designed the Bottle block. The Bottle block effectively prevents items rolling in the driver’s footwell. ( Roll Respectively items from the passenger footwell back as the accelerations like to happen in the Tesla options when you not only have Jack Daniel’s bottles in the car …)
Bottle block in the podcast CLEAN ELECTRIC
podcast unfortunately only in english
The story on Bottle block is also available as podcast in 
www.cleanelectric.de
For the readers of my blog there are 20 EUR discount with code “MOREL LIFE”.
(Discount expired but we lowered the prices for some colors, please check the current rabates at https://www.bottle-block.com/)
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Or put it another way, what is the value of a good idea who improves your security?
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update Sep-2018 - Bottle Block got reviewed by "Tesla Markus"
update August-2019 - Bottle Block got reviewed by "i1Tesla" - Thanks Brian for you feedback!