I do like the idea of having a mini-safe, but a biometric safe isn't the way to go--the ones on the market are far too easy to break into.
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Yep - you point a gun at the owner and say OPEN IT NOW and boom, free gun. Guns only work if you have one in your hand at all times. Even then, they don't always work.
When you have kids with you and carry a gun in the car, you need a safe. There are places that don't allow CC so the gun must be left behind.
No safe in the consumer market is fool-proof.
No safe in the consumer market is fool-proof.
Yes, but many (if not most or all) of the biometric mini-"safes" can be opened with a paper clip or a screwdriver. NOT safe enough to keep kids out of them.
jcaspar
Member
Don't worry. I'm a woman, not macho, and won't play.
I hope for plenty of storage in my Model X for essentials and I think I'll not be disappointed. Tesla appears to be very consumer oriented.
Why would the X have storage space that the S doesn't? The S is for homeless people with no possessions but the X is for hoarders?
lagann
Member
Nothing has made me realize how out of place I am as a young Model S owner than the fact that no one questioned you carrying a paper map. I haven't seen one of those since I was just a kid. I didn't even know they really even made them even more.
bonnie
I play a nice person on twitter.
I still carry paper maps on a road trip, for two reasons: It's nice to have an overall picture of where I'm going, and, most importantly, connections aren't always *robust* in all areas. Yes, sure, maps are stored, you can zoom out, blah blah blah. I know these things. And it's nice to have paper.
Same in the UK (£1 coin, though obviously
)An alternative is to get a special key fob the same dimensions as the coin.
Shopping Trolley Pound Token With Keyring - Smiley Face Design: Amazon.co.uk: Kitchen Home
They are often given away here as promotional items. Maybe as a gesture Tesla should have some T logo ones made to make up for lack of coin storage
Andyw2100
Well-Known Member
Same in the UK (£1 coin, though obviously
An alternative is to get a special key fob the same dimensions as the coin.
Shopping Trolley Pound Token With Keyring - Smiley Face Design: Amazon.co.uk: Kitchen Home
I know this is veering off topic, but indulge me, please, as I just have to know, and this won't go far, I'm sure.
Leaving aside for the moment the ethics and the legality or lack thereof involved in the above, I don't get it. If you use the smiley face thing instead of a coin in a trolley cart dispenser, you're not going to get it back, right? And isn't the key chain worth more than the coin? So why would one do this?
Andyw2100
Well-Known Member
Ahhh, now that makes sense.
The systems I've seen like that work differently. I've only seen that kind of system at airports, where you pay, say, $1.00 or $2.00 to "rent" a cart, and then when it is returned the person who returns it gets perhaps $.25 back. The airports do this to encourage people to return carts. I had assumed the grocery cart systems worked in a similar way, but without the profit being built in. The fact that one could get their own coin back was not one I had considered.
Thanks!
AustinPowers
Total Smeghead
Same in the UK (£1 coin, though obviously
An alternative is to get a special key fob the same dimensions as the coin.
Shopping Trolley Pound Token With Keyring - Smiley Face Design: Amazon.co.uk: Kitchen Home
They are often given away here as promotional items. Maybe as a gesture Tesla should have some T logo ones made to make up for lack of coin storage
Same in Germany. All shopping carts have that system. Takes 1 Euro, 50 Eurocents or sometimes even 1 DM coins if one still has them. Or we can use chips like the ones you mentioned made from all kinds of materials. Interestingly, quite a few models of European cars come with dedicated coinholders as standard. Plus cardholders etc. And as for paper maps, many people including myself still use them for the same reasons Bonnie mentioned, even though our satnav systems over here dont need cell coverage as they are based on a combination of gps and maps stored in the system, not needing to constantly try and download Google maps - which are either as out of date as old paper maps or not available in time because of bad cell coverage. Which is a constant nuisance here, especially in a moving vehicle. Therefor sometimes oldfashioned really means more comfort for the user.
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