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gg_got_a_tesla
Model S: VIN 65513, Model 3: VIN 1913
Cinergi, you da man! Loved these bits! Looking forward to the big video of the full touchscreen functionality!
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The brown one ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbeZ9ZtqIm0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbPWVixRz1Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj3I7zR-QJ8
And the last one for the evening -- the rear of the brown one with a closeup of the backup cam / license plate area
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nD2z_dDALM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbeZ9ZtqIm0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbPWVixRz1Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj3I7zR-QJ8
And the last one for the evening -- the rear of the brown one with a closeup of the backup cam / license plate area
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nD2z_dDALM
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CapitalistOppressor
Active Member
I've made this point in other threads. At this point the test vehicles are effectively years old already. Hundreds of test drives and literally thousands of people have got into, and exited the car, snapped and unsnapped seat belts, rapped the body panels with their knuckles to see how well built they were, etc. In real cars, passengers wont wiggle everything to see how strongly its made. For that matter, in most cases having passengers at all will be rare.
cinergi, you are on fire man! I considered swinging back through today on my way back from upstate NY (drove past the sheraton on 287) but the baby as in full beast mode. These videos are a nice consolation prize 
CapitalistOppressor
Active Member
Not surprised about the Adaptive Cruise issue. Adaptive Cruise requires specialized hardware (to go along with relatively complicated software), which means potentially substantial engineering changes to the vehicle. I would also wonder whether it opens Tesla up to liability that they would rather not have as a small company.
CapitalistOppressor
Active Member
Huh? More like a few thousand miles on each car (the number of test drives per car is in the hundreds already, with each test drive lasting an average of 10-15 minutes).
The entire Get Amped Tour is scheduled for something like 5,000 test drives and we are well into that schedule now, with the really large events already in the past. I haven't looked into this, but based on the length of time allocated to a typical test drive, I'd be shocked if the routes have averaged less than 6-8 miles. Every single route has been specifically chosen to include a bad section of road to demonstrate the suspension.
So the test drives will cover anywhere between 30,000-40,000 miles over roads likely to be worse than normal on low profile tires which are engineered more for performance than durability. I'd say that the odds of hitting a nail (or any other gremlin issue requiring a repair) are extremely good over that distance.
So your statement is both misinformed (in terms of how far each vehicle has probably driven), and fails to recognize that a single flat tire in the course of tens of thousands of vehicle miles is just not statistically significant.
It's alive.
Me likee "Night" mode under "Display Settings".
Mirror Auto-Tilt -- Did you explore that any?
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CapitalistOppressor
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Dude. That video probably deserves it's own thread rather than being buried in the New York tour thread :tongue:
EDIT: By that I mean the video is awesome and highly informative
cinergi, holy cow, I think you just posted more test drive video than everybody else on the forum combined!
I'm watching your Infotainment video, and I noticed at 1:40 or so, there seems to be some flaking of the finish around the steering wheel buttons on the right side. Am I seeing correctly?
I'm watching your Infotainment video, and I noticed at 1:40 or so, there seems to be some flaking of the finish around the steering wheel buttons on the right side. Am I seeing correctly?
cinergi, holy cow, I think you just posted more test drive video than everybody else on the forum combined!
I'm watching your Infotainment video, and I noticed at 1:40 or so, there seems to be some flaking of the finish around the steering wheel buttons on the right side. Am I seeing correctly?
:smile:
Yup, you're seeing correctly.
Dude. That video probably deserves it's own thread rather than being buried in the New York tour thread :tongue:
EDIT: By that I mean the video is awesome and highly informative
I agree. Probably a few videos that need their own thread. Right now I'm just in unload mode :smile:
youlikeadajuice
P 9130
Thanks for the compliment! She wasn't a big fan of the rear opportunity console because it took up a bunch of space in the back and she thought it definitely looked like an afterthought. The only other time she sat in the back of the Tesla was in the Beta, and it had no rear console and she was very impressed with how roomy the back seat area was (yow)!
Ultimately, she would hope for something that was more integrated into the car so that it would not compromise the back seat as much. It's an option I won't get, at least in it's current state, but it's not something I'm particularly concerned about anyways. We were both thoroughly impressed with the car!The cooling got going louder on the second day. Probably full A/C and a ridiculously aggressive drive -- even the employees were surprised. This time the fan noise was noticeable but still relatively subdued. The fans slowed down to ultra-quiet within 15 seconds of the car arriving and coming to a stop. Nothing concerning, but it is possible to get some audible exterior cooling from the S -- but still quieter than the Roadster.
Arnold Panz
Model Sig 304, VIN 542
Cinergi, these videos are really fantastic! I totally agree that these need their own thread. Totally comprehensive. Outstanding work. The video of the touchscreen is fantastic -- comprehensive and logical and thorough. Well done, and thanks!
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