I recently learned that folks who drive Jeep Wranglers exchange some sort of secret greeting when passing each other the road. As we start hitting the streets in our Model Ss, what will you do to acknowledge fellow Tesla drivers?
In the Jeep, and some other vehicles, the drivers can see each other clearly but in many cars you can't really see the driver so greetings don't happen (even in unusual cars where drivers typically interact with other drivers). I don't know how visible the driver in the other Model S will be.
I would vote for a single blink of the emergency flashers. Button easy to touch quickly and no need to see driver.
There is an EV hand sign going around here in CA. Too hard to accurately describe but it's 3 digits. Thumb and it's two adjoining fingers. If you were to look at the tips they would form a triangle. (signifying a generic plug) The action is a wrist move like a tennis swing (plugging in action)
Driving my Volt around town, most other volts have been exchanging a quick beep of the pedestrian alert horn. All other EV's, a simply wave is exchanged (EV's are still pretty rare around here, so we all acknowledge each other on the road, regardless of brand) I would think that a simple wave wave would be easiest for the Model S, but I do like the idea of the emergency flashers.
Given the amount of chest thumping and nastiness (myself included) over the past couple months, the Model S secret hand shake should be the middle finger! :biggrin:
Even better would be two middle fingers forming a T but that might lead to safety problems with steering or lack thereof.
> It's better than the "Vee-Dub" I throw up every now and then.[ElSupreme] Eww. Palms foreward might be less gyncological/invasive. But nice gloves, nice assistant! --
Hurry up, and maybe "The Tesla S Salute" can be featured on the Colbert Report like Nissan did: Nissan's 'LEAF Wave' Deadline - The Colbert Report - 2011-27-07 - Video Clip | Comedy Central
The flash-to-pass is used by Porsche 911 drivers. This conversation reminds me of the old Fiat X1/9 greeting. They could make their pop-up headlights wink... that is, until they stopped working all together.
The NSU Ro 80 drivers (the one with rotary piston "Wankel" engines) held up a number of fingers equal to the number of rotary engines they went through.