France b2b wc gonna be the greatest sporting achievement of all time!

they still have to get past the GOAT

Welcome to America. Lawsuit of the day.

I had my car drive me to UCLA yesterday. Worked great. It was pretty cool watching it change freeways and ramps.

And the things that make it an "engineers car" is much more than self driving. Things like no car keys. You just have your phone in your pocket. You walk up to the car, it presents the door handle to you. It auto adjusts the seats/wheel/mirrors and away you drive. Or summon the car out of the garage with your phone. 4 wireless phone chargers in the car. Noise cancelling speakers built into the car seats. Auto garage door opening as you approach your house. Matrix headlights. The car has a published API to write your own apps.

Plus who doesn't love the infinite torque of electric motors.

all that stuff sounds pretty cool. but i can't even work my phone. so it wouldn't' do much for me.

i have a "smart home"... like i could theoretically control all my lights, thermostat, door, fans, appliances with my phone. but i don't even know how to make calls on my phone. so it's all useless to me

Yeah, I understand. That reminds me - when I see an older person driving a Tesla it makes me wonder to what level do they understand the car. lol

I was reading the owners manual the other day, I was reading it for several hours and only got 1/2 way through it.

Tell me you're not an engineer without telling me you're not an engineer

My wife and I also attended two Tesla school classes.



I've read all my cars owners manuals. There's tons required info there!

how much are you spending a year on electricity for the car?

how much would you be spending on gas for a normal car?

I've started reading way more owners manuals. #old

I "filled" the car up for $4 last night. With that said, the price of the car is higher than a gas-powered one and the insurance is more expensive. So I'm probably break-even or spending more when everything is penciled out.

With that said, there is very little maintenance on the car. No oil changes, tune-ups, radiator fluid changes, timing belts, etc... And every morning I start with a fully filled vehicle to drive.

It comes with a 4 year bumper to bumper warranty and 8 year battery warranty.

i've heard such horrible things about tesla cars. but the 3 people i know personally who own them love them. or at least they say they love them. but 2 of them are on their second or third tesla, so they probably really do love them

and mark seems to love his

Me being on Twitter just paid off big time. Even if Twitter goes down the shitter, this justifies its existence.

You can read Twitter without logging in now.

Assume that is from the new Harley quinn show

When did tweet tags stop working in tapatalk?

dunno but it's been a while.

crapatalk WOAT

I have zero doubt you would like this car. My kids were driving it today and commenting how Tesla doing a clean sheet design of a car allowed them to do things that other car manufacturers should have done years ago.

Getting it and my minivan to fit in my garage however... Tricky.

I think someone said it's from a 2017 movie.

Which model did you go with? Which version of auto pilot? I've really wanted a Tesla for a long time but do too many cross country trips where the range would be an annoyance. The last time I looked into them I was pretty turned off by self driving costing $199 month. That's bullshit. Also, the memory of when they gave everyone in Florida much more range on their cars with a simple software update, for evacuation purposes, still leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Not because they did that to help out, but because of the throttling in the first place. It's bs that you aren't receiving the full capabilities out of the box, imo.

I really don't want smart stuff or ring etc. Don't need my house all synced up.

I got the model S long range (400 mile range assuming ideal speed and conditions).

Autosteer comes for free on all Teslas. This gives you a TON of helpful self driving features. It includes adaptive cruise and lane holding. You have to tell it to change lanes with the turn signal. For most people, this is good enough.

The next option is Enhanced Autopilot for $6K. This adds Navigate on Autopilot where on the freeway the car will change lanes, take offramps, change freeways on it's own. It also includes Summon, Smart summon and AutoPark. These allow you to park or back the car out of tight spots from your phone.

The final option is City driving for another $9K. This allows autonomous driving on surface streets.

You can also get the above with a monthly $200 subscription.

Your battery capacity comment is really not a real issue. Tesla puts a margin at the lower end of battery capacity. It damages the batteries to run them down to true empty so they hide a little extra capacity to help prevent getting into this region. Tesla removed this safety margin during the Florida evacuation. BTW, during daily driving I only charge to 80% and never run it below 20%. This maximizes battery life.

BTW, the 80% to 20% strategy is also true for Smartphones but usually no one cares if a phone battery life is shortened.

Never say never.

whoa... interesting... i always charge mine to 100%

might not be worth the trouble though to stop charging at 80%

my battery never gets below 70% anyway lol

Thanks! So, the montly fee for auto pilot is only when you don't pay the lump sum up front? For some reason I thought it was both, you had to pay the extra and the monthly.

Right. And again, the free autosteer gives you most of the useful features.

I would only recommend someone buying the other stuff after using the free features awhile.

Having the car drive itself in stop and go traffic or just holding a lane while cruising is what most people find the most helpful. All this comes standard.

so they're doing a new thing now where they have mariachi concerts outside my apartment. and i just renewed my lease for another year fml so hard