What is the background sound in the video?
Tesla drove right through railroad crossing gates this week
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A little better than mine, but it still needs some work.
I ran out of time. Have at it!!A little better than mine, but it still needs some work.
Best I pass, some of the names might not be family friendly. LOL
A lot of old people drive Tesla’s down here on the coast. I agree a lot of young people drive also.
I think it’s been pretty much substantiated. The reason for the high death rate is driver distraction.
The theory is that center screen and no physical buttons is distracting drivers.
The high power of the car is also a problem for younger drivers, no different than any sports car and why insurance rates are higher in some cases
I've noticed that many of the "lane keep assist" and other type safety features are only necessary because they put a iPad on your dash and then made it so that you HAD to use it to adjust the temperature, the fan, or the audio.
I love that my Accord still has some knobs. The HVAC is entirely on three knobs and a couple adjacent buttons. ZERO SCREEN interaction.
The touchscreen is entirely and only for Nav/music/carplay type stuff, which is nice.
Agree, actually GM in many cars is still good on that.
My wife has a 2025 Equinox (gasoline) large array of physical buttons. The 2025 Equinox EV was the same.
If you ever look inside new GMs most all of them have the same exact climate control buttons which is really nice. Tons of options controlled by touching physical buttons. Some things you need the screen for like reseting the trip meter and the most dumb one is turning on the fog lights. It's possible I am missing something with that one. But I have to use the screen from what I know.
SammyChevelleTypeS3
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People should just do a little personal observation. Start to watch and take notice when driving what you see going on in the vehicles near you. That is unless they have the totally blacked out windows from front to back like I see a lot of. (supposed to be illegal)
Anyway, the majority of vehicles I see next to me at lights or even passing me , it is obvious the drivers are looking at everything BUT the road. Most I see appear to be looking down with a phone across the steering wheels. They must be texting or operating their smart phones....? Driver safety can not always be blamed on the car itself. Operator has the most responsibility for safety.
Anyway, the majority of vehicles I see next to me at lights or even passing me , it is obvious the drivers are looking at everything BUT the road. Most I see appear to be looking down with a phone across the steering wheels. They must be texting or operating their smart phones....? Driver safety can not always be blamed on the car itself. Operator has the most responsibility for safety.
This seems to be a common misconception, but is simply not true. Yes, Teslas are different and can take some getting used to. I find our Lexi interior dash far more complicated with the myriad of buttons. Tesla common controls are located at the bottom on the screen and the audio level is on a scroll wheel. Of course voice controls are the easiest of all.
It is also true that some take to the Tesla interface easier than others, especially younger people. They grew up with computer interfaces. Others will absolutely hate the interface.
According to one company that Tesla regularly uses for metrics Teslas fsd is actually getting worse.
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While Tesla is at 809 city miles to critical disengagement, Alphabet Inc.-backed Waymo did not remove safety drivers from behind the wheel until reaching 30,000 city miles, Johnson noted.
That’s a gap of more than 37 times between the two autonomous platforms on this metric".
This one is bad.
I didn’t mean to suggest Teslas had this, my comment was just a general observation that many safety features on newer cars are primarily necessary because of the distractions the provide as well.
The Model Y has the highest rate. Could be that many drivers don’t realize what kind of speed a few seconds at WO will generate? These aren’t Vipers, or something that is tricky to control when WO, but physics gets real when there’s a little bumpy bend in the 55 road, and you just scooted up to 85…
CleanSump
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I think it's like red cars and tickets. Red cars are just machines and don't warrant tickets by color. Police don't ticket them because they stand out. The personality of people who buy red cars is a type that tends to drive too fast, violate standards, and other risky behavior.
People who drive Teslas tend to think the car doesn't need driver input to be safe.
People who drive Teslas tend to think the car doesn't need driver input to be safe.
TThus
This has been my thought for awhile. It so easy and unassuming to build crazy speed and as far as sound you only gear some gear sounds and inverter noise. The fact that the throttle is instantaneous likely adds to it as well.
This has been my thought for awhile. It so easy and unassuming to build crazy speed and as far as sound you only gear some gear sounds and inverter noise. The fact that the throttle is instantaneous likely adds to it as well.
I use the steering wheel controls on my Tesla. I'm rarely in the screen while driving. I'm not sure what someone would be doing in the screen. I can't see a reason to change the climate control when everything is automatic aside from shutting it off if I roll the windows down.
Simply not true. Not even to change radio stations.
- Switch Source: "Change the source to Radio" or "Turn on the radio".
- Tune to Station: "Play [Station Name]" (e.g., "Play ABC News Radio" or "Play Triple J").
- Frequency Tuning: "Tune to [FM frequency]" (e.g., "Tune to 95.5 FM").
- General Media Controls: "Lower/raise the volume," "Mute," and "Skip to next" (to move to the next available station).
A point so important you made it twice! I quoted your prior reply in post #33.
It’s OK— I’ve done it myself many times!
