This is my first time at Vacaville Supercharger.
Here, I experienced something very bad that I'm finding is a common theme in many Superchargers.
First, while entering, I encountered a huge amount of shopping parking lot traffic. But then, when leaving, I encountered a crushing amount of parking lot traffic, including one elderly lady crossing at a diagonal as if it were a market plaza. That was the main bush intersection for the entire shopping mall parking lot. I barely saw her behind two other crossing cars.
This is not an isolated problem for that one SuperCharger. Most of the SuperChargers are sited at locations with excess traffic intersections, excess foot traffic, excess parking lot traffic, and inferior break "amenities", really, needs, for human stretching, eating, drinking, and cleansing.
Essentially, issues that most gas stations have solved with quite good access locations and amenities appear to be missing in the SuperCharger network, and replaced with a hazardous amount of traffic, inviting horrible accidents as well as a lack of speed.
This will become more of an issue as Tesla's cars become more mainstream and integrated into non-retirement lifestyles, where people have real deadlines, competition, family and finance to achieve. Speed becomes a huge factor.
Tesla should quickly learn how to site its future SuperCharger network in ways compatible with road use of their vehicles. For now, that means looking toward the models already effective with gas stations as a way to correct for a lot of these inadequacies. This is irrespective of future enhancements from self driving: if the car acts like a slow bus, people will not use self driving for many trips, and volume will still exist needing fast SuperCharge access with appropriate human needs fulfilled (food, cleaning).
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