{"id":49067,"date":"2022-11-28T23:26:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T04:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49067"},"modified":"2022-11-28T23:26:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T04:26:48","slug":"behavioral-observations-as-a-new-tesla-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49067","title":{"rendered":"Behavioral observations as a new Tesla driver"},"content":{"rendered":"

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To cut to the chase, I bought a Tesla.\u00a0 Okay, it\u2019s really my wife\u2019s car and she\u2019ll be the one making the payments on it, but on paper, I\u2019m the purchaser, since I don\u2019t have student loans and my credit was more optimal to get the financing done.\u00a0 But we have a Tesla, and I get to drive it around every now and then.<\/span><\/p>\n

It hasn\u2019t been long, but it\u2019s definitely a fun new toy to drive around in.\u00a0 There\u2019s definitely an adjustment period getting used to regenerative braking, and how you can literally drive with your foot on a single pedal.\u00a0 The feeling of there being no gears shifting at all as you accelerate, and the sheer lack of sound of motors or smells of exhaust definitely makes you feel like you\u2019re driving a spaceship.<\/span><\/p>\n

Without question, there\u2019s still a treasure chest worth of experience yet to be tapped as far as diving deeper into ownership of our Tesla, and I\u2019m sure weeks, months and maybe years down the line, there will be functions and features that we\u2019ll still be discovering, and hopefully none that will have been gamechangers early in our ownership.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the point of this post is about behavioral observations that I\u2019ve had, now that I\u2019ve been driving around in the Tesla myself for a few weeks now.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t really think much about it after experiencing some observations, I guess I can kind of understand what\u2019s going on around me whenever I, or my wife are riding around in the Tesla.<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Surrounding drivers are more aggressive. This is really the big thing that I\u2019ve noticed the most when driving around myself.\u00a0 Turning on a turn signal to initiate a lane change, way more frequently than I\u2019ve noticed in any other car I\u2019ve been in or driven, results in adjacent drivers stepping on the gas to forcibly deny me entry.\u00a0 If at a merge point, surrounding drivers are noticeably more aggressive and out to make sure they get ahead of me, regardless of our spatial positioning.\u00a0 <\/span>At stop lights, in just the last two weeks, I\u2019ve had more people act like they\u2019re Brian O\u2019Connor<\/a> on me, and turn a green light into an impromptu drag race, and seemingly make a point of getting in front of me like they just won the le Mans.\u00a0 I\u2019m all like, buddy, I\u2019m still trying to learn the pedal of this car, I\u2019m definitely not trying to get in any races here.\u00a0 Plus, I\u2019m 40 with kids, I\u2019m long past caring about 95% of red light matchups.<\/span>\n

    Don\u2019t get me wrong, I\u2019ve pushed the pedal a few times, and the acceleration is staggering.\u00a0 In most cases, I probably could smoke a lot of the cars that have gone Dom Toretto on me, but just because I could doesn\u2019t mean that I am, especially where I\u2019m still new to this and learning about the car.<\/span><\/p>\n

    But I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s the color of the car, or the notion that all Tesla drivers must be rich assholes, but it\u2019s pretty undeniable that drivers all around me, when I\u2019m in the Tesla, have their aggression ramped up like that one cheat code<\/a> in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City<\/em> where you can make everyone super aggressive.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    1. There are way more Teslas and EVs on the road than there are places in public to charge them. My house has yet to have our private charger installed.\u00a0 The upcoming holiday and the fact that we had no idea when the delivery of the car would actually come made it difficult to plan out, so we don\u2019t have a personal charger installed just yet.\u00a0 We\u2019ve kept the car charged because my office has EV parking, and have had to utilize a supercharger already.<\/span>But it was the supercharger experience did I realize that it wasn\u2019t going to be as quick and easy as I thought it might be, as when I rolled into the lot with the charging stations, every single one of them was occupied.\u00a0 I never thought of it, and I didn\u2019t expect it, but it’s apparent that there are a lot of Teslas out there, and the need for superchargers seems to far exceed the amount available.\u00a0 I was fortunate that one opened up while I was circling, but I could very much anticipate this being an issue in the future.<\/span><\/li>\n
    2. Which ties into this next observation, people very much abuse EV parking, especially if said EV spots are in optimal locations. I noticed this at Disney World, how EV parking was drastically closer to the front of the parks than the rest of the pleeb parking, but it wasn\u2019t until I had my own EV and tried to use the EV parking at my office did I realize just how problematic EV parking abuse actually is.<\/span>My parking garage has six EV spots, and they\u2019re pretty good.\u00a0 When I knew I needed to use them, I didn\u2019t realize that I\u2019d be competing with the same cars on a daily basis to try and get one of them, and since I have to take #1 to school in the morning, they\u2019ve often times been all filled up when I get there.\u00a0 And the thing is, I\u2019ve noticed that they\u2019re the same cars on a regular basis, and knowing first hand how often a Tesla actually needs to be charged, it\u2019s become apparent that these people are utilizing the EV parking not because they actually need to charge so much as it\u2019s just better parking than if they had to park in general pop.\u00a0 This is really no surprise at all upon thinking about it, but it\u2019s still obnoxious considering their asshole want for good parking just might be denying people who might actually need the charging spots.<\/span><\/li>\n
    3. Speaking of the assholes, now that I am a Tesla driver, I can now raise my nose and be that Tesla driver, <\/em>and look down on the other Teslas that I deem to be of lower quality than the one I legally own. Namely, all the people in the low-end Model 3s that are single motor, rear-wheel drive, as most obvious by their shitty looking wheels that look more like a sandwich meat slicers than some sweet rims.<\/span>The best part is that there\u2019s this one low-end Model 3 that runs sentry mode, and has lights come on when you walk too close to it; I\u2019m like bitch please, you\u2019re parked next to two Model Ss and a Model Y, ain\u2019t nobody going to touch your car first, get the fuck over yourself.\u00a0 Yes, I know it\u2019s a treasure to you, but to the rest of us Tesla drivers that actually like having two motors and all-wheel drive, you\u2019re basically a Nissan Leaf with a fancy skin.<\/span><\/li>\n
    4. And last but not least, speaking of the Nissan Leaf, if you think being that Tesla driver<\/em> is cruel to other Tesla drivers, imagine what it\u2019s like for non-Tesla EVs, like Nissan Leafs? They\u2019re these hideous little buggies that are unfortunately entitled to the same EV spaces that I need, and it annoys the piss out of me when I get into the parking garage and the same three Teslas are already camping half the spots, but then there is this Audi and two Nissan Leafs that are camped out in the other.\u00a0 Little fucking turds piss me off, but no more than when they\u2019re camping a charger that I\u2019ve been needing the last few days.<\/span>Maybe this one will dissipate once we get our own charger and don\u2019t have to sweat it as much, but probably not.\u00a0 They are inferior, and being that Tesla driver<\/em> isn\u2019t going to change that.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      To cut to the chase, I bought a Tesla.\u00a0 Okay, it\u2019s really my wife\u2019s car and she\u2019ll be the one making the payments on it, but on paper, I\u2019m the purchaser, since I don\u2019t have student loans and my credit was more optimal to get the financing done.\u00a0 But we have a Tesla, and I … Continue reading Behavioral observations as a new Tesla driver<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51,83,105,25,10,146,182,190],"class_list":["post-49067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-cars","tag-observations","tag-rage","tag-technology","tag-traffic","tag-triggered","tag-tryharding","tag-white-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49067"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49086,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49067\/revisions\/49086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}