Was adding air to my tires via 12v inflator, and stranger tells me to turn on my engine

[chris2222]

Lost some PSI due to cold weather, and was adding air into my tires. A concerned stranger walking by (further away on the next row of parked cars) yells out, "TURN ON YOUR ENGINE, OR ELSE YOU'LL KILL YOUR BATTERY!" and gives me the hand signal to turn the key. The trunk was open, he was too far to see what kinda car I had clearly, but heard the buzzing of the air compressor (with no accompanying engine noise).

Me: "It's electric."

Guy: "Oh....". Then guy walks away.

Me: "Thank you though!!"

 

[Madsen203]

Amazing! Love this.

 

[jjrandorin]

I mean, I get the story and all, but to me, the "cool" part is that a stranger saw someone they thought might be contributing to stranding themselves, and thought to say something, not that "its electric".

 

[CaptUAL]

And along those lines….I told my girlfriend I was a little down in spirits, missing my Brother who recently passed, and was just sitting in my car in the garage. She rushed over to my place and was all worried that I might be running the engine in a closed garage….in my Models S.

 

[MrJeep997]

The title made me chuckle, take my like.
I was thinking about the running in the garage thing the other day and if anyone would freak out about that. Too funny.
My wife simply cannot handle the fact that it's always "On." She has asked 50 times how do you turn it off?

 

[SWIPE]

The Tesla is changing a lot of fixed habits/stereotypes like no “Loud exhaust”, oil stains, leaving your lights on.

I made my kids watch the first Knight Rider episode and I noticed, the only thing missing from a Tesla and KITT is a talking voice and some other KITT “weaponized” gadgets. It was funny that 40 years ago the concept of an interactive computer in the car and auto driving was so amazing, and my kids weren’t impressed.