Hey can someone explain the trophy thing for this California boy? We don't have Quaker Steak and Lube out in these parts.
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Hey can someone explain the trophy thing for this California boy? We don't have Quaker Steak and Lube out in these parts.
mikeash
Active Member
I just had a great one testing new 7.1 features. I used perpendicular autopark outside a local apartment building. Then I got out and tested "summon" to pull it out of the space. Worked great. After it was done, I looked up and noticed two people who were chatting outside the building and now had their jaws on the ground. Totally derailed their conversation. "What kind of car is that?!" And the typical conversation ensued. Too funny!
mikeash
Active Member
Summon is basically just the ability to use the key fob to move the car forwards or backwards up to 40ft, with some intelligence avoiding obstacles. It seems to work anywhere. The release notes warn that it should only be used on private property, but I think that like the "hands always on the wheel" warning with autosteer, this is not actually enforced.
It should be great for cases where somebody parks very close to your driver's side door, for example.
It should be great for cases where somebody parks very close to your driver's side door, for example.
LoL Rick
Like Buttah
Quaker Steak & Lube does a "Classic Car" show every Thursday night. Pretty much, if you want to pay $5, then you can show your car. Sometime there are some nice muscle cars end generally a few older restorations. They give out a whole bunch of trophies for "cars of merit" but not in any particular categories. This week I saw a much bigger trophy for the best car of the night, but hadn't seen that before. To be fair, we're usually inside eating when they call the winners outside, or we're by just generally not paying attention. So we may have racked up a few more trophies that we didn't collect. Btrflyl8e has 2, FLDarren has one or 2, I think Great Dane has one, and MaxK received one for the awesome Model X this week.
A friend's cow-orker has four sons (Ages ranging from about 10 to 16). When they heard about the Tesla, they all had to see it. Of course I had to offer them a little test drive. They had all the best questions to ask, were very knowledgeable about the car and Elon. We did a clown-car picture so they can show their friends.
SW2Fiddler
We Are Cognitive Dissidents
Reminds me, I gotta go get a Peppermint Blast before they take away the holidays menu.
JenniferQ
Active Member
Cyclone
Cyclonic Member ((.oO))
I hope it was a test ride and not test drive
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JenniferQ
Active Member
He makes me sad. To be fair, he had a salad at Quaker SteakSonic, some other drive through and Quaker Steak - you hit the holy trinity there.
One of the VERY rare times my younger one convinced my older one to sit in the rear facing seats.
Leaving the store, kids close the trunk, and this woman looks like she saw a ghost, walked past us, went to her car with her friends and I overhear her say "I think they forget their kids in the trunk".
My wife starts to pull out of the space, and the woman with the faceless expression runs over, knocks on our window and says "umn... I THINK your kids are in the trunk". My wife, says "I know". The woman goes "o? You know? ok...." and starts walking back to her friends.
I yelled out the window "there are seats back there". I would've showed her the seats to ease her concern, but we had 15 mins to get to the next store before it closed.
Hopefully the cops won't be paying me a visit later...
Leaving the store, kids close the trunk, and this woman looks like she saw a ghost, walked past us, went to her car with her friends and I overhear her say "I think they forget their kids in the trunk".
My wife starts to pull out of the space, and the woman with the faceless expression runs over, knocks on our window and says "umn... I THINK your kids are in the trunk". My wife, says "I know". The woman goes "o? You know? ok...." and starts walking back to her friends.
I yelled out the window "there are seats back there". I would've showed her the seats to ease her concern, but we had 15 mins to get to the next store before it closed.
Hopefully the cops won't be paying me a visit later...
Pilot_51
Member
As I started walking into work from the back of the parking lot this morning, I crossed paths with someone who worked in one of the neighboring auto supplier buildings. He got my attention and said "I like your Model S. I haven't seen one in Michigan yet." I replied that there aren't many and thanked him and we continued on our ways.
Time permitting, I drag people into the car and show it to them; give them a ride; sometimes even have them drive. Usually accompanied by a chant of the form, "you can get this as a sedan, as an SUV, and in 2017 as a compact sedan for the average price of a new car except LESS because of the federal tax credit". It's impossible to quantify so I'm just going with my hunch that every friendly owner engagement now translates into someone giving serious consideration to a new Model III in 2017/2018 or a used/CPO III in 2019/2020.
Alan
P.S. Really, REALLY hard to resist the setup line, "ok, you've been in a golf cart, right, this is electric just like that, so please just take a deep breath and be patient with me as I attempt to accelerate", and then WHAM! Even in an ancient, dirt-slow P85+, it's a winning move!
It's impossible to quantify so I'm just going with my hunch that every friendly owner engagement now translates into someone giving serious consideration to a new Model III in 2017/2018 or a used/CPO III in 2019/2020.Alan
P.S. Really, REALLY hard to resist the setup line, "ok, you've been in a golf cart, right, this is electric just like that, so please just take a deep breath and be patient with me as I attempt to accelerate", and then WHAM! Even in an ancient, dirt-slow P85+, it's a winning move!
pdxgibby
Software Engineer
This. I will be using this line moving forward.
Even in my lowly 70D I get people screaming for excitement and "Do it again!" chants.
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