Right, which is how I knew they weren’t on when I was decelerating at a rate that could only be accomplished by at least gently tapping the brake in a regular gas-powered car.
I guess it may depend on what you’re coming from. A manual in third gear definitely has more engine braking effect than what triggers the brake lights on the Model 3. I sometimes did two-foot driving in my old manual just to make sure I didn’t get rear-ended in traffic. Haven’t had that worry in the 3.
Don’t know about the Tesla, but the headrest angle on my '19 Subaru is adjustable. Pull all the way forward and it will go all the way back when released. Then pull forward and it ratchets through several angles and will stay where set.
It’s automatic. It’s three screen taps otherwise: car icon in the lower left, lights menu option in middle right, on or off buttons in upper right. Not safe to do while driving. (I know this off the top of my head because I turn them off manually while waiting in the car after dark for my kids to get out of class.)
Teslas have three levels of automation. 1, cruise control which maintains speed. 2, autopilot which maintains speed and lane. 3, full self-drive which does everything.
In my other two cars (Chevy Bolt, Lexus RX450h) I use cruise control any time I don’t expect to have to change speeds. Those cars will happily maintain the set speed no matter the conditions. Their cruise controls works just as fine on side streets at 25 as the freeway at 70. The Tesla Model 3 will “cleverly” decide that doesn’t want to keep speed any more. I compare it to a horse that gets spooked easily.
Edited to add: I love the euphemism “deeply irritating the drivers behind you”. 
Good point. My electric cars are commuters. Waze is a commuter-focused app and does it really well. It’s great when there’s many ways to get where you’re going. It’s not so useful on longer trips where there’s not many alternative routes.
On the occasional trip, we’ve never driven the Tesla far enough that we’ve needed to stop for a charge en route, rather than charging at the destination. (It’s more an issue of space for all the luggage than range anxiety. Although I’ve heard horror stories of Sunday afternoons coming back to L.A. from Las Vegas.)
I find the opposite. On short trips it can provide really oddball shortcut routes that save 10 seconds. On highway trips, aside from the route, it provides route hazard/speed trap information that I find useful even if I already know how to get there.
There is a slightly faster, if still stupid, way to do it. Press the left side stalk forward, to put the high beams into automatic mode, that will bring up the lights mini control at the bottom left of the screen, then you can tap the appropriate button to adjust the lights. That what I use to turn on and off the fog lights.
What it should have is the headlight and foglight icons greyed out on the screen, and then a tap to toggle them.
There is probably a way to talk to the car to turn them on and off, too, but I’m sure if I ask for fog lights the car’s going to start streaming CCR.
Interesting; I seem to remember Subaru being one of the worst offenders for the forward tilt. Perhaps this is a recent innovation in response to frustrated drivers turning the headrests around or just pulling them out entirely. My Mazda3’s headrests aren’t too bad, but they definitely only adjust up and down, not to different angles.
I like the cut of this guy’s jib:
Come on, the voice recognition is not that bad.
You’d get Foghat.
The angle usually adjusts where the rest is attached to the stalk. And most of the cars I’ve driven recently have adjustable angle head rests.
That reminds me of another thing I like about our Tesla (not EV related, any manufacturer could do this. Maybe others do)
You can set drivers, for example, my wife might be “Mary” and I’m “Joe.” When I get in I hit “Joe” on the touch screen, and everything adjusts to my settings. The side mirrors, the seat position, the radio favorites, the gauge layout, etc. When she gets in she hit’s “Mary” and everything is back to the way she likes it.
Our 2011 Lexus does it. Our 2017 Bolt does not. I’m guessing it’s one of those “luxury” features that’ll trickle down to every model eventually.
For the 3 not the Y (at first). They use the same seat but the way the seat is mounted the Y has an angle that makes it feel like your head is always shoved forward. It was a deal-breaker for us until the dealer explained it and we found we could recline the seat into a comfortable position.
OK, last thing and I swear I’ll drop the seat discussion.
I looked it up, and it appears Subaru first introduced the ability to tilt the Forester’s headrests, instead of just moving them up and down, in 2014. Here’s the 2013 manual showing they only go up and down:
https://carmanuals2.com/subaru/forester-2013-owner-s-manual-88541/page-14/
Here’s the 2014 manual showing how you can now adjust the tilt: https://viewer.joomag.com/subaru-forester-manuals-2014-forester-owners-manual/0921220001386912047?page=68
Here’s an old message board thread from the mid-aughts, after Subaru started making the headrests pitch way forward and almost a decade before they introduced the ability to adjust the angle: Forester Headrest - 1990 to Present Legacy, Impreza, Outback, Forester, Baja, WRX&WrxSTI, SVX - Ultimate Subaru Message Board
And here’s’s the manual showing the headrests on my Mazda3 indeed only go up and down: https://owners-manual.mazda.com/gen/en/mazda3/mazda3_8fj4ee16e/contents/03010600.html#:~:text=To%20raise%20a%20head%20restraint,top%20of%20the%20passenger’s%20ears.&text=To%20remove%20the%20head%20restraint,while%20pressing%20the%20stop-catch.
At least as of 2019, Kia only made the headrests 4-way adjustable on certain models: Cure Your Headrest Headache – Lawton Kia Blog
GM apparently removed the adjustable tilt feature from their vehicles recently: https://gmauthority.com/blog/2021/04/not-a-single-gm-vehicle-currently-in-production-offers-tilting-headrests/
So in conclusion, different makes and models of cars have varying seats, which may or may not be adjustable and which may have comfort implications for some of us, which may be worth remarking upon if someone asks what you like or dislike about a particular car. Tesla: seat good. IMO.
My Inifiniti has buttons for two drivers linked to two key fobs, and it automatically selects the driver depending on which key fob opened the car. But it only sets seat, steering wheel, and mirrors. In a Tesla there are so many soft controls that Tesla can basically customize the whole environment.
Not only are there a bunch more settings on the Tesla that are controlled by the profile, but the phone as key stuff is sensitive enough to choose the profile for the phone that is on the driver side of the car when two phone-keys are present. This seems to work correctly about 95% of the time.
Another thing I like is the “easy entry” profile which can be set to activate when the car is in park. It moves the steering wheel out of the way, and the seat back a bit to make getting in and out easier. Nothing too unique about that, as lots of cars that have it, but the thing with the Tesla is that it’s fast. The seat moves quickly enough that I never feel like I’m waiting for it to get into position. I drove a rental Suburban (I think) that had that, but it moved so slow I ended up disabling it. I was constantly waiting for the seat to finish moving forward before I could drive.
I see a market for a sticker. “Please DO NOT SMASH THE WINDOW to let the pet out. We have a smart dog™ who knows how to use the climate controls.”
I never heard of this. I test drove one and the sales guy didn’t mention it.