"Virtual group orientation"? What the hell does that mean? All instructional videos are just videos you can see on YT. Sounds more like a scam message with some sketchy link than something Tesla would send. But if it is coming for that same phone number, that must be Tesla and that is even weirder. Unless the scammers spoof that number too...
Um. The spouse and I have ours Monday evening; NJ/PA/MD and maybe some other states are all involved with it. There were 140 or so people on the Teams call, with people typing questions into the chat as fast as they could go. One guy giving the presentation, which was verbal and kind of power-pointish; two others answering questions on the chat.
This being Teams.. As it happens, I did this on my work PC which actually
has teams, and it all came up in the Teams application. Apparently a small number of people (maybe 4 or 8) didn't get the audio. Interestingly, most of us were identified as "first_name.last_name Guest"; those who didn't have audio seemed to be mostly "Guest".
A lot of requests for a transcript or recording. Teams
can do that (we do it at work), but either the version the Tesla people was using was incapable of that or the people running the show didn't know. This particular crowd running the show stated that they do this every Monday evening, rain or shine.
I'd say that 90%+ of the questions were legit. But there appeared to be a troll or two attempting to disrupt things; one person repetitively asked, "What am I going to do without a spare?", as if there aren't plenty of non-Tesla cars that come sans spares. Or asking, "What happens when my 4-year (I think) 50,000 mile warranty runs out, and I get a flat?" Um. Answer: You call AAA or something and get them to come fix it, what else is new?
Since the spouse and I have a 2018 M3, there wasn't that much new to us on the call; I answered a few questions. (My favorite: "How well does the EZ Pass work in New Jersey?" Answer: "Very well. But make sure you get a Green transponder from the EZ-Pass people, you get a small discount.")
So, not a scam. And in these days of COVID, safer for the employees.
Yeah, you'll have to do your own key pairing, they won't help, I guess.