I don't use the "keep headlights on for a while after exit" feature.
All I want is to be able to manually keep headlights on when I'm the only person with the car and I need to step out and do something, like get the mail at the side of the road. Or shine my lights on a person changing a flat tire as I help them.
You might think that sliding the lights switch to "ON", which turns on the headlights manually, would keep the headlights on until you turn them off using the switch. But no. No matter what headlights go off as soon as you step out of the car and shut the door, poof!... Thanks Tesla. I think this also happens when you turn on just the parking lights.. they go off too when the door shuts.
Standing there, car completely dark, at the side of the road. It's winter now. Only a couple days away from the longest evenings all year. We do a lot of thinks in the dark these days.
Headlights gratuitously shutting themselves off is a safety issue in my mind. Shouldn't do that. If a user is offered a control for a manual setting, then the car should respect what the user is trying to do and not override it. Tesla breaks this simple design rule time and time again. (Because they're smarter than you, right?!)
Anyone else face this issue? Does any other car babysit you like this with the headlights?
The only lights I can get to stay on are the safety hazard flashers.
All I want is to be able to manually keep headlights on when I'm the only person with the car and I need to step out and do something, like get the mail at the side of the road. Or shine my lights on a person changing a flat tire as I help them.
You might think that sliding the lights switch to "ON", which turns on the headlights manually, would keep the headlights on until you turn them off using the switch. But no. No matter what headlights go off as soon as you step out of the car and shut the door, poof!... Thanks Tesla. I think this also happens when you turn on just the parking lights.. they go off too when the door shuts.
Standing there, car completely dark, at the side of the road. It's winter now. Only a couple days away from the longest evenings all year. We do a lot of thinks in the dark these days.
Headlights gratuitously shutting themselves off is a safety issue in my mind. Shouldn't do that. If a user is offered a control for a manual setting, then the car should respect what the user is trying to do and not override it. Tesla breaks this simple design rule time and time again. (Because they're smarter than you, right?!)
Anyone else face this issue? Does any other car babysit you like this with the headlights?
The only lights I can get to stay on are the safety hazard flashers.