Old Habits / New Habits

[NigelM]

OK, that's enough OT for now. Although the thread is about habits and going OT is a common habit on TMC. :wink:

 

[steve841]

In 24 hrs... My challenges are:
I keep reaching for the ignition.
Still trying to judge regen distances.
Car barks at me cuz I'm a two foot driver! One on brake, one on accelerator... Old habits!
Biggest challenge... Realizing I actually own this after almost 3 years.

 

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Car barks at me cuz I'm a two foot driver! One on brake, one on accelerator... ....

Does anyone else see a need to fix this? I found it irritating. I was using one foot.

 

[cinergi]

Does anyone else see a need to fix this? I found it irritating. I was using one foot.

It would be good if it waited a few seconds before beeping (e.g. to allow hill starts without beeping). 1.9.11 didn't beep at all. This was added in one of the recent updates.

 

[brianman]

Yah, there needs to be a grace period to allow for hill hold brake->accelerator transitions.

 

[DrComputer]

The actual problem with the "pedal overlap" error is that the pedals are too close together and they are not offset enough.

 

[brianman]

The actual problem with the "pedal overlap" error is that the pedals are too close together and they are not offset enough.

For me at least, that's not the issue. The issue is the annoying noise when dealing with accelerating from a street light facing uphill, without kissing the car behind me.

If they added a hillhold (no advance, no retreat, just hold position) option for the Creep setting, then I'd be fine.

 

[Jason S]

I love auto-headlights. Auto-wipers on the other hand, meh. I keep the wipers turned off in my Mercedes until it rains and then I turn them on auto until the rain is finished.

This. I found the auto behavior of the wipers slightly annoying (and that's without the rain!) so I just treat them like manual wipers. Will be interesting when get more rain around here.

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My habit is that after driving the S for a couple weeks I'm now back to the ICE and keep reaching for the shifter on the steering column.

New habit was just walking away from the car to lock it. Loved that! Having to deal with actual keys makes me remember the locks on the other car.

Btw, my wife loves the car except for the looks it still gets. She sometimes feels like a celebrity. Just this morning she had somebody pacing the car taking pictures while going down I-80...

 

[NigelM]

New habit: math gymnastics. Keep figuring out range if I drove like this or like that. Not range anxiety, but interested in the limits of the car.....I keep coming back to the idea that I could get to 400 miles.

(This one should wear off).

 

[strider]

It would be good if it waited a few seconds before beeping (e.g. to allow hill starts without beeping). 1.9.11 didn't beep at all. This was added in one of the recent updates.

The older software did have the beeping but it took like 3 seconds before it did it (this was back in the Get Amped days).

 

[brianman]

New habit: math gymnastics. Keep figuring out range if I drove like this or like that. Not range anxiety, but interested in the limits of the car.....I keep coming back to the idea that I could get to 400 miles.

(This one should wear off).

For me, I'm not sure it will. I think it will drive me to write an app (WTB SDK) that allows me to make projections with nice graphs and such.

 

[NigelM]

Went out to my Roadster yesterday, key in pocket, tried the door...couldn't open it. Puzzled. Doh!

 

[FlasherZ]

While my Model S is being serviced, I'm driving my Suburban again. On the interstate/freeway, I push the turn signal lever up and release -- then remember it doesn't automatically give me 3 blinks!

 

[aviators99]

It's embarrassing, but I can't drive an I.C.E. well anymore. After driving nothing but the MS for a month and a half, when I get behind the wheel of an ICE I make everyone (including myself) sick.

 

[AltPowr]

My only issue going back and forth between the Model S and my regular car is that when I go to put the Audi in drive or reverse I'm pulling on the windshield wiper stalk.

 

[bbmertz]

My only issue going back and forth between the Model S and my regular car is that when I go to put the Audi in drive or reverse I'm pulling on the windshield wiper stalk.

+1. Also finding myself simply releasing the gas pedal only to realize that I need to hit the brake pedal if I want to slow down when in a regular car.

 

[Todd Burch]

Drove to the airport for work yesterday in my wife's Corolla, solely to keep it from going stale (she has a work car). It was a complete joke. I laughed for the first 5 minutes of the drive (out loud) when I pushed the pedal down and nothing happened. Hehe I was so used to the instantaneous torque of the S that the absence of ANYTHING seemed completely pitiful.

The ICE was noisy, rough, and powerless. Just a crappy drive experience.

I picked up the rental car when I got to my destination. Mazda 5. Yuck. Yuck. Yuck.

About 2 hours ago, I pulled into an Applebee's parking lot. Put the Mazda in park, and stepped out of the driver's seat. I sure felt stupid when I heard an engine noise and realized I hadn't turned the engine off!

Every time I get back into an ICE it reminds me that I will never drive an ICE again.

 

[NigelM]

The ICE was noisy, rough, and powerless. Just a crappy drive experience.

After a month driving Model S, my wife had to drive her old Mountaineer to the horse stable. She called me from 1/2 mile down the road because she though there was something wrong with it.

 

[Liz G]

While my Model S is being serviced, I'm driving my Suburban again. On the interstate/freeway, I push the turn signal lever up and release -- then remember it doesn't automatically give me 3 blinks!

"3 blinks"?

 

[dsm363]

"3 blinks"?

When you tap the turn signal instead of pulling it all the way down, it blinks the turn signal 3 times.