I wouldn't use it for city driving, it was fun to mess around with it for a little just to see. That would be stressful if you were using it all the time for that. On the highway though, I feel pretty confident in it. I still have my hands on the wheel and foot resting on the peddle ready to takeover but I find it to be way less fatiguing for a long drive.
On highway drives you find yourself knowing when and where to pay more attention, like passing or congestion. Not dissimilar to first learning to drive with cruise control. Not perfect and sometimes isn’t aggressive enough but you just hit the pedal and it’ll speed up. City driving I’ve been on very high alert, definitely more so than if I had just driven myself. But there’s been so many “wow holy shit how did it do that” moments where I was about to take over and it handled it like a human would. We have a lot of double parked cars and cars parked in bike lanes in the hood, and it will edge over into adjoining lanes or straddle two lanes when safe in order to maintain speed. It waits for pedestrians to cross really well.
Was in SF the other week and saw a girl trying to get into an autonomous Waymo “taxi”. It was hilarious. It kept stopping and going and jerking around as it was trying to figure out where the person was and if she was in the car yet. Those things should definitely be driving around streets with pedestrians everywhere
Waymos have a pretty outstanding safety record as far as I’m aware. They also have massive units all over the vehicle.
Wife picked up her Model Y today. She’s enjoying it so far. Looked at the new Model 3 in the showroom. I did like the back seat screen and turn signals on the steering wheel (neither of which are on my current M3).
I’m happy with just my lane centering and adaptive cruise tbh. Just keep my hand on the wheel and let it do most of it on highways
Trying to decide what to do. M3 has 125k+ miles and still runs great but they just dropped the price of in stock Y's by $5k. Same car for $45k was $64k a year ago. I fucking hate Elon. But I can't not have a car with adaptive cruise as much as I drive on the interstate.
Exactly, I'm sure they did the math and it's got one of the highest probability locations for EVs to be running low on juice as they go north or South. Plus they probably got an amazing deal on the land, it's dirt cheap.
Some require pre-mapped highways, which is dumb. Rivian’s ADAS works this way and I hope they fix it by the R2/R3 launch
Lol, I couldn’t figure out how to even turn the cruise control on in the Tesla I rented a month a couple of months ago
Yeah the rental teslas I had took me a bit to get it engaged, but it was fine once I figured it out. I’ll admit that I am biased toward ford because I had a great experience with their products, but I like what they did with blue cruise. Eye tracking and highway mapping both gave me confidence in the hunk of metal that had my life in its hands.
Not eligible but not a deciding factor. I've had my Model 3 for almost 6 years and it's been great. Probably not but for the non-Tesla's I've been in, they're not as good.
Question for the Tesla owners, or anyone knowledgeable of the Model S… The used car market has absolutely tanked for Teslas lately. I’ve seen some older Model S’s going for less than $25k (making them eligible for the $4k used tax credit). I’ve seen a lot of them in this price range with less than 100k miles (pondering some of the ones with transferable lifetime free supercharging). What is the reliability like with the battery and motors? I’ve read some Tesla forums with some guys saying that the P85D is more reliable than the P90D & P100D. What should be looked for/checked on a test drive?
I sold my 2016 Model S 85D in January with 98k miles on it and 7-8% degradation in range. Verify the range at a full charge or calculate based on the displayed range and percentage (can toggle in the settings menu). It should have no more than 10% degradation and ideally no more than 5%. I can’t speak to the reliability of the P variants, but I had zero issues with my drivetrain. I did, however, have to get the MCU (infotainment screen) replaced under warranty, and I replaced the driven gears in three of the four door handles which was a pain in the ass but a cheap part. You’ll want to know if the eMMC had been upgraded in the existing MCU or if the MCU1 has been upgraded to MCU2. Either should help with the reliability of the system. Regarding the handles, ask how many of them have been repaired. Look closely for bubbles in either LCD screen also since they develop quite frequently.
Great info and much appreciated. A lot of the cars have upgraded to MCU2, and some of them list the battery degradation. Didn’t realize the handles were such a problem for the S. That will definitely go on the checklist of questions to ask. Will also ask about bubbles in the screens. Thank you
Recently used FSD on the model 3 and I was impressed. Definitely some holes in edge cases which probably don’t get solved until infrastructure is designed for this type of driving or more cars are automated, but probably good for 90-95% (non scientific) of driving situations. Have been driving the new Rivian exclusively but FSD makes me want to drive the Tesla more for sure.
Substituting one person’s tweet for the opinions of society as a whole is ironically hyperbolic. Or maybe it’s illiberal. I’m still trying to define that later term so maybe I have this all wrong.
I want to buy an EV, but I also like to road trip. So I rented one in Houston to drive to Dallas and back. They gave me a Hyundai Kona and it charged painfully slow. Like, I would never buy one of those now. With all of that free time I researched other vehicles and I think the Kia EV6 Wind AWD is doable for what I want. Importance, in order: SUV (any size) AWD Charging speed Range Anyone got one or something else to recommend I check out?
hyundai/kia are the same company so kia's charging network is still gonna be electrify america and not be great you wont like the answer but if you want to do road trips you need to stick to brands that are tesla or at least are tesla super charger compatible and I think currently that's only Ford and Rivian
Rented one of these and liked it overall. It was second on my list of available vehicles to purchase last August when we added a second vehicle, but the Subaru blew the price away on a lease deal. In hindsight I probably would have done this or Ioniq 5. It’s technically a crossover, and all the EVs in this class are relatively small. Think equinox or similar. I’ll plug MachE for this use case as well.
Doesn’t speed depend a lot on the battery? Electrify America can do up to 350 kW, right? But max depends on the car?
Crossover is just fine. I just need to hold my camping gear.. You leased a Solterra? I looked at those when they first came out but it’s got the worst range of all the SUV, and Subaru can’t make a battery for shit. Their hybrid BLOWS.
Saw a claim that the 2024 Mach e can go from 10% to 80% in 36 minutes with the extended range battery. Not sure how good that is.
Depends on what that % gets you. I look at miles per 1 hour charge traveling 75mph. like, the Kona would only get me 150ish miles on a 45 minute charge (10-80%)
google says the ev6 can charge up to 235kw so that part is solid it's just that the electrify america network isnt all that great and reliable and not all/most are 350kw