Tesla Everwhere
- Thread starter Wobdog
- Start date
You can get a high mileage Tesla, but you are going to be familiar with your service facility and shell out some dough.
Or you could buy a Crown Vic for $3500 and get as far.
insideevs.com
Or you could buy a Crown Vic for $3500 and get as far.
This 1.2 Million-Mile Tesla Model S Is On Its 14th Motor, Fourth Battery Pack
After over 1.2 million miles of driving, this Tesla Model S is now on its fourteenth motor and fourth battery pack, but the car's exterior still looks almost new.
OMG....Now I am going to have nightmares. I am already parinoid about someone rear-ending me. No joke I just upped my insurance.
Last edited:
Your fears are real
Dec 13, 2023
DETROIT (AP) — Tesla is recalling nearly all vehicles sold in the U.S., more than 2 million, to update software and fix a defective system that’s supposed to ensure drivers are paying attention when using Autopilot.
You do know that was a movie right? Just making sure...
Amazing. I had no idea it was possible to keep one of these going for that many miles. (He drove that thing more than 10,000 miles a month every month for nine years!).You can get a high mileage Tesla, but you are going to be familiar with your service facility and shell out some dough.
Or you could buy a Crown Vic for $3500 and get as far.
This 1.2 Million-Mile Tesla Model S Is On Its 14th Motor, Fourth Battery Pack
After over 1.2 million miles of driving, this Tesla Model S is now on its fourteenth motor and fourth battery pack, but the car's exterior still looks almost new.
I'm not sure why Tesla was singled out, but every car maker has one of these driver assist cruise control systems and the safeguards can all be defeated. Car and Driver...Driver-assistance systems have become commonplace, and our testing found none of them can sniff out drivers aggressively misusing them.
It really isn't a "recall" as we think of one. 2,000,000 Teslas aren't going to show up at a Tesla shop for the fix. They will get a software update over the air...just like your iPhone gets periodically.
Last edited:
I do not know what movie that was from. Tessla vs E9?
FWIW, from my recent 2 week trip to CA, I found Tesla's to be ubiquitous in Orange county, but not so much in Silicon Valley.
I found OC Tesla drivers to be the least considerate vs other marques. They drove as if green-status entitled them to disregard rules and other inferior drivers (never a turn signal, running red lights, changing lanes into ridiculously small gaps, 20mph rolling stops at stop signs, parking over 2 spaces at the mall, etc.). The SiO2 area was a dramatic contrast, where I found the vast majority of drivers observant, considerate, and generally not aggressive. Upon return to Boston, I was immediately reminded that we still take the prize on aggressive and selfish driving style.
I found OC Tesla drivers to be the least considerate vs other marques. They drove as if green-status entitled them to disregard rules and other inferior drivers (never a turn signal, running red lights, changing lanes into ridiculously small gaps, 20mph rolling stops at stop signs, parking over 2 spaces at the mall, etc.). The SiO2 area was a dramatic contrast, where I found the vast majority of drivers observant, considerate, and generally not aggressive. Upon return to Boston, I was immediately reminded that we still take the prize on aggressive and selfish driving style.
They are like cockroaches in Silicon Valley. Everywhere, scurrying haphazardly to get back under the leaky sink to charge up again.
Can't comment on the OC, but good that your driving experience was moderate in the SV area. SV locals may be more likely to regard the use of these appliances to signify the worst sort of driving hygiene practices that you mention, - for a very large number of those driving them. They have become virtue-signaling parodies of themselves as they green-wash their predictably terrible, self-entitled driving habits.
Not every owner obviously, but it's become so uniform for so many of them, that some regard that subset like an impaired class of hazards to be avoided whenever possible. Bad even by Boston standards.
Of course, there was a time when there was another marque that seemed to be suddenly everywhere and had some association with aggressively bad driving. I can't remember which one it was though.
Can't comment on the OC, but good that your driving experience was moderate in the SV area. SV locals may be more likely to regard the use of these appliances to signify the worst sort of driving hygiene practices that you mention, - for a very large number of those driving them. They have become virtue-signaling parodies of themselves as they green-wash their predictably terrible, self-entitled driving habits.
Not every owner obviously, but it's become so uniform for so many of them, that some regard that subset like an impaired class of hazards to be avoided whenever possible. Bad even by Boston standards.
Of course, there was a time when there was another marque that seemed to be suddenly everywhere and had some association with aggressively bad driving. I can't remember which one it was though.
I’m not throwing any stones…
No fault of the autos themselves of any stripe, just attitude and aptitude in the modern example, - as in days gone by. These things work themselves out over time. Be careful out there.
Dubious honors for both marques:
www.cnbc.com
Tesla drivers had highest accident rate, BMW drivers most DUIs study finds
Tesla drivers had 24 accidents per 1,000 drivers during the period from mid-November 2022 to mid-November 2023, according to a study by Lending Tree.
@Arde , @jmackro, I know about the Nazi past of BMW, the slave labor, etc, but those people are dead now. As someone else pointed out, Henry Ford was a raging anti-Semite, but he's dead too. Elon is very much alive, and won't shut up. He should stick to building cars and rockets. He's good at it. As much as people knock Tesla, the product is remarkable. It's the only profitable electric car in the world. Are electric cars for everyone? Of course not. But they are really fun to drive and might make a tiny dent in global CO2 emissions, although it might be too little, too late.
I agree Scott, on one hand it was a long time ago, on the other hand Faulkner's "The past is not dead..." wisdom is probably the truest short sentence I know. BTW, the Quandt family is not dead:
As for Elon you are probably right, I just never listen or read him. Why do that? He is not running for office so I do not really need to follow his thoughts.
Agree on the disruptive nature of what Tesla did. I am a luddite so I may never own one, plus I hate the subscription revenue model, but I am surrounded by Teslas in CA
.
The Silence of the Quandts: The history of a wealthy German family
The award-winning The Silence of the Quandts deals with the unscrupulous rise of one of Germany’s richest and most influential families. The family, which owns 47 percent of auto manufacturer BMW, is implicated in the crimes of the Nazi regime.
www.wsws.org
As for Elon you are probably right, I just never listen or read him. Why do that? He is not running for office so I do not really need to follow his thoughts.
Agree on the disruptive nature of what Tesla did. I am a luddite so I may never own one, plus I hate the subscription revenue model, but I am surrounded by Teslas in CA
.