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Marthe48

(18,903 posts)
Tue Sep 24, 2024, 04:00 PM Sep 24

My s-i-l leased a tesla car

He will be driving more and considered best cost and least expense in his choice. they've had it less than a month.

My daughter drove it over today, so her sister could see it before she went home. We were treated to some silliness. There is something called a toy box. You can stand outside the car, and use your phone (or fob, realized I'm not sure) and the car will run through a sound,light and motion show. The lights flashed, the mirrors, windows, trunk and charge port moved to music. You can also program it to make fart noises for either interior or exterior speakers. I am left wondering if I'm listening to elon musk fart?

Anyway, sharing a feature of the tesla which might not be widely discussed

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sdfernando

(5,368 posts)
1. I would never lease or purchase a tesla....looney has made it a no go in my book
Tue Sep 24, 2024, 04:22 PM
Sep 24

I don' t care if it is the cheapest, it ain't happening. There are other good options rather than a tesla. Looney spends development $$ on that stupid toy box and not fixing that stupid full self-driving software???

Oh, and I saw somewhere on the intertubes where someone was comparing the tesla logo to a thong in a butt crack. It was quite amusing.

Marthe48

(18,903 posts)
2. I got a new car this summer
Tue Sep 24, 2024, 04:36 PM
Sep 24

My s-i-l tried to talk me into leasing a tesla, but like you, I'll never give that company, that ceo, my money. But I enjoyed the time with my kids. I needed a lift

usonian

(13,579 posts)
5. That car is 4 wheels and millions (?) of lines of software.
Tue Sep 24, 2024, 05:10 PM
Sep 24

And it's remotely controllable. By Elon.

Chances that software works perfectly are zero, and it's merely lives at risk.

A similar auto guru ...

Henry Ford was also a big Nazi sympathizer. Got a medal from the Fuhrer's staff. Yuck.



https://allthatsinteresting.com/henry-ford-nazi

And author!



Contact me in DU mail, and I'll send you my portable fart noise maker.
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Marthe48

(18,903 posts)
6. My grandkids found one on my phone
Tue Sep 24, 2024, 05:22 PM
Sep 24

I missed having someone say bless you when I sneezed and my nephew sent me a link for an app. The app also had various tones of people saying 'shut up' and many fart noises. I ended up taking the app off.

I try to keep in mind the original engineers who created tesla and not the guy who co-opted the technology and got rich off it. Also bastardized it into a fart machine.

usonian

(13,579 posts)
7. That was a long time ago.
Tue Sep 24, 2024, 05:32 PM
Sep 24

How long till smellovision is standard equipment?

https://i.postimg.cc/KcdyTz0N/IMG-0711.jp

I disagree technically on "camera only" guidance. I'd have lidar AND radar. Cameras are too too easy to fool and blind.

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