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Re:Hertz's Bet on Teslas Went Horribly Sideways by jefftk on Thursday April 04, 2024 @12:34PM (#39932676)
> The UX of most of the basic car functions was much harder to learn than a typical rental car. I'm sure that Tesla's UX quirks start to feel normal after a while, but I had trouble locating basic car functions and had to text with Tesla-owning friends for advice.

This was also my experience: "you'd only know if someone told you or you looked it up, and late at night after a cross country flight with two tired kids while poking at unfamiliar menu options on the dashboard tablet I was pretty frustrated with their minimally discoverable approach" https://www.jefftk.com/p/tesla-model-3-review

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Re:Hertz's Bet on Teslas Went Horribly Sideways by 2sk21 on Thursday April 04, 2024 @03:29PM (#39934768)
That was an excellent write up! I am really surprised that the built-in navigation system does not enable you to search for charging + activity. That seems like it ought to be essential!
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Re:Hertz's Bet on Teslas Went Horribly Sideways by jefftk on Thursday April 04, 2024 @03:32PM (#39934806)
Thanks!

It's possible that searching for charging+activity is possible and I just didn't find it? But I spent a while looking!

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Re:Hertz's Bet on Teslas Went Horribly Sideways by HumblyTossed on Thursday April 04, 2024 @04:34PM (#39935485)
> The major downside of the cruise control was phantom braking. In about 450mi of driving up and down CA 101 I has three false positives, where we suddenly decelerated:

> I was in the rightmost of two lanes and an SUV was parked in the breakdown lane with its hazards on.

Why was this a false positive?? This is what you are supposed to do if you don't get over to the left.

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Re:Hertz's Bet on Teslas Went Horribly Sideways by dev_tty01 on Thursday April 04, 2024 @04:47PM (#39935614)
They said it 'suddenly decelerated.' That is NOT what you are supposed to do when a car is in the breakdown lane.
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Re:Hertz's Bet on Teslas Went Horribly Sideways by shepherdjerred on Thursday April 04, 2024 @10:28PM (#39938115)
For me, test driving a Tesla was a very scary experience because of this. They're not intuitive at all, though I'm sure those who own Tesla's are mostly familiar with the quirks.
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