Caution: TESLA caused me to leave my rental car running for 5 hours.

[RAM_Eh]

Oh yes of course I have. Even leave the keys in the ignition overnight on many occasions. Have been told by passengers to turn off the car multiple times!

 

[AudubonB]

I'm very relieved that none of you confessors have written that that was when your ICE was in your closed garage.

 

[IamJohnGalt]

Yes, with a rental car when travelling with work. Remembered to turn off then engine when I arrived at the hotel, but left the key in the ignition. Just realized it before I entered the reception.

You get used to a lot of things with a Tesla, I like this youtube video posted a short while ago. It's quite spot on if you ask me.

That video is hilarious. I keep trying to put the car in gear with the windshield wiper also.

 

[f-stop]

I've not recently forgotten to turn off my wife's ICE before getting out of the car, but I still catch myself reaching for and almost turning on the windshield wipers (righthand stalk) when I want to put it in Drive

 

[Saghost]

I've not recently forgotten to turn off my wife's ICE before getting out of the car, but I still catch myself reaching for and almost turning on the windshield wipers (righthand stalk) when I want to put it in Drive

This is what I was going to say. I had a Cruze hatchback rental for a week for work travel back in May. I didn't leave it running at any point, but I turned on the windshield wipers pretty much every day that week.

 

[gdh66]

In the "ignition"?

 

[ICUDoc]

I've left the ICE running; more than once, but only for a short time.
Reverse is NOT the right hand stalk.
You have to LOCK the car yourself.
You have to take the keys out.
ICE is a freaking hassle!

 

[William13]

My wife treats me like an old man when I drive her car to make sure the car is truly off...

Multiple times in the early years of Tesla I left her car running. The longest was 3 hours.

 

[snellenr]

Since nobody heard or even noticed the engine running, that very quiet car represents an unacceptable hazard to pedestrians and should be required to have a noisemaker...

 

[chris5639]

At least with the ICE cars you guys can hear an engine running. When we had an S and a Nissan Leaf, I would accidentally leave the Leaf on all the time.

 

[SomeJoe7777]

In the 2+ years I've owned the Model S, I've driven ICE rentals and other cars a few times. I've managed to not leave the engine running, but I think I've left them unlocked more times than I've locked them.

 

[Esme Es Mejor]

Wait, what are "keys?" And what's an "ignition?"

 

[Saghost]

Wait, what are "keys?" And what's an "ignition?"

The Keys are a group of islands off the southern coast of Florida, and ignition is when the chemicals in a rocket begin to combust, right before liftoff.

 

[Xenius]

I made fun of my wife for doing this once. I've done it twice now when I've had to drive her Subaru. Whoops.

 

[JHawk]

Every time I drive one of our ICE cars now I'm digging the keys out of my pocket after I get in.

About half the time I leave the keys in the ignition and many times I'll get out with the car still running.

I've even got out and left them running AND still in drive/reverse a couple times.

 

[Hugh Mannity]

Opposite problem here. I'd driven my Model S for nearly 90,000 miles over 4.5 years and still, on occasion, reach up to where the ignition switch would be before getting out of the car. I have never once even come close to leaving an ICE car running (i.e rentals or other ICE cars I might drive from time to time).

Yeah same here, the ICE vehicles are so noisy and vibrate so much I don't get how you could leave it on? Weird

 

[buttershrimp]

Yep... Left the prius on overnight...engine running the next day and was like "what the hell.... oooooooops...."

 

[tccartier]

Did any of you find that it was a big adjustment moving in the opposite direction ( from ICE to Tesla ) ?

 

[DrivingRockies]

Left my wife's Suburban running. I walked away with the kids, and when she caught up she handed me the keys...

 

[Max*]

Did any of you find that it was a big adjustment moving in the opposite direction ( from ICE to Tesla ) ?

I'd reach for the ignition to start the car, I'd reach to shift gears, and when I was braking I'd try to find the clutch (didn't look for the clutch on acceleration, for whatever reason).

Went away a few months in.