Teslas are dangerous cars! I would not buy one, even if somebody paid me to do so. Nor would I care to take a ride in one, either.
On what basis do you say this? I don’t own one, and I’m no elmo fanboy, but they’re perfectly adequate normal cars in most ways.
They are kind of like the D-K of cars. People are sold on the awesome automation features and rely on that way more than they ought to. And, of course, the “FSD” is designed to do what the driver tells it to, without adjusting for dangerous conditions, or at least has been that way in the past (it might be less bad now). If you want to just drive one like you would any other car, you will probably be mostly ok.
While playing Oh Yeah by Yello.
Wait, why? Is that just a bug…?
There is this note in the Tesla manual, so they are aware that there is some interplay between the alarm and the AC.
The Tilt/Intrusion alarm must be turned off to use Cabin Overheat Protection (see Cabin Overheat Protection).
That setting does not sound familiar. My guess is that the running AC and fan on maximum causes enough vibration to trigger the camera’s motion sensor. The cameras save an “incident”, but upon review there is nothing happening. Or maybe it is something else, and the camera automatically saves regardless of why the alarm triggers.
I most recently had it trigger when a Nerf football hit the door, to give you an idea of what kinds of “real” events can set it off. There was no damage, but it did leave a clean spot.
Valet mode does not disable music streaming, so they can at least play the song, even if acceleration is limited.
Someplace I have a cassette tape copy of a friend’s Pure Sound of Speed album. It doesn’t have a 250 GT California, but it does have a Testa Rossa 250, which probably sounds similar enough to make a nice playlist to let the valet fantasize.
I don’t own a Tesla (or a dog) but I wouldn’t do this. What if the software glitched and turned off the AC ?
Or worse yet, glitched and drove away with your dog?
I guess that could happen. It hasn’t yet and we’re 5 years in.
I’ve had mine since 2021 but recently have fallen in love with it due to FSD now driving me to/fro work on the 405 everyday. The first several years of ownership I never used it. They had a couple of free trials and I was really impressed but I wouldn’t let myself fully trust it. Fast forward a few months and I’d take a nap during my commute drive if it would let me.
Everyone here is all wrong about how well Tesla is doing (everyone here thinks Tesla’s sales are collapsing because of issues such as anti-Musk sentiment, poor build quality, lack of new models, ugliness of the Cybertruck, etc).
How else do you explain:
I explain it by saying that this is the resolution of a long-standing dispute relating to Musk’s 2018 performance.
No fair actually reading the article.
Here’s a hybrid to consider while you wait for a full EV. (3D-printed 1,233bhp hybrid hypercar)
It currently owns the production car lap record at Laguna Seca. And it’s street legal in California!
Just the thing for Target runs.
These nice folks make a pure EV that will eat Czinger’s alive: Nevera - Rimac Automobili. At $2.5M to $3M it is a trifle on the expensive side though.
But insanely fast; fast enough to get to Target before you even leave home. ;).
Costco not so much. "Where am I going to fit this package of toilet paper?
There once was a young man named Bright,
Who could travel much faster than light.
He left home one day,
In a relative way.
And returned on the previous night.
Isn’t that called “Instacart”???