Man the stereo is insane though. Almost makes up for the fact that it handles like a RedBull soap box derby racer.
View out the front is beautiful. Climate is controlled very well. Definitely a computer with wheels and a motor. It shows little diagrams of everything you are driving by, for no apparent reason, as it doesnt seem to do much with the info. It beeps at you when the light turns green, which helps you get a text sent at the red light without slowing anyone else down, which I am not sure is any kind of technical victory but more like enabling an alcoholic. Unbelievably crappy ride. And it makes some sort of a clunk which sounds like a suspension component gone rogue. This has been a known issue with some of the early forgings and ball joints. I mean come on - if you are going to skimp, do it somewhere else. Combustion engines definitely save people from themselves. Max torque at zero rpm is kind of insane. And pedestrians tend to underestimate your speed or think you are farther away than you are because it makes no sound speeding up. It slows really fast and intuitively with just the accelerator pedal so it moves like something out of the Matrix speeding up and slowing down so much more readily and naturally than a gas car. To get a gas car to do the same thing, you have to burn immense amounts of gas through gear 1 and high rpm, which is not reclaimed with braking and you think "hey I'll just take it easy and save some fuel". But it seems free on batteries with regen braking, as I am paying squat for the energy. So this is just another level of around town speed up and slow down, as I expected but no one including me seems ready for the capability of the thing. We are in close traffic through Beverly Hills and honestly the car tempts you to do things you should not and makes them seem perfectly reasonable. It does not need 400 or 700hp or whatever it has. If they get that Aptera thing figured out and it has real controls and no gimmicks I would probably prefer it. Actually I would prefer a bike maybe with some electric assist, but I prefer to live longer than LA traffic would allow, if I can. On Fri, Nov 11, 2022, 6:03 PM mitch--- via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > If I'm understanding Karl correctly, my hate for the touchscreen crap > has multiplied tenfold. > Having to take my eyes off the road and focus on a tactile free screen > to do anything is a safety hazard. > What pisses me off to no end is when my Chevy puts up a long paragraph > of verbiage on the screen, and requires me to hit the "OK, I actually > read all that bullshit while driving" button to bring the radio display > back up. What's all the verbiage? A warning to not read the damn screen > while driving!!! > Makes me want to drive into a tree just so I can sue GM. > > But aside from the aforementioned horribly unsafe safety warning, I can > live with the Chevy. The channel preset buttons are big, you can > eventually learn approximately where they are, and you're better off > using the buttons on the back of the steering wheel to just jump up/down > the channel list anyway. > > Having to negotiate levels of menus while driving makes me think the > best use of the Tesla would be to puncture the batteries, throw it off a > bridge an enjoy the fireworks when it hits the water. > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
