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I might, might go along with the pearl-clutching if I didn’t live in Redmond, WA, where you can’t swing a dead feline without hitting a Tesla. And my wife goes

I might, might go along with the pearl-clutching if I didn’t live in Redmond, WA, where you can’t swing a dead feline without hitting a Tesla. And my wife goes out of her way to point out a Tesla that is accelerating at anything but “old person going to Sunday church service” mode, just because it is so seldom witnessed. In other words, for all of Tesla’s hype about Scottish tartan mode, most of the ones we see can’t get out of their own way. Which is fine, no need to go tearing down the road just because you can, and you’ll save on tires. But this isn’t the first time rip-roarin’ vehicles have been sold to the public. Motorcycles, even slow ones, will stomp most cars from a light or 1/4 mile. And, yeah, folks plow into things with them on occasion. But it’s generally failure to negotiate a turn that causes moto accidents, not outrageous acceleration. So we already have the prior art of Teslas and motorcycles, and the world hasn’t ended. In fact, this is the first such worry I’ve heard about EVs. As I’ve said about fast motorcycles: the throttle is not binary.

mark-r 5y ago
I've noticed a lot more Teslas in the Minneapolis area too. Not quite the way you describe, I still go most days without seeing one. But now it's not unique to see multiple on a single outing.
- mikestew 5y ago
  I still go most days without seeing one I can't do that even if I don't leave the house. There's a school near our house, and there are a lot of Tesla school buses that drive by. :-) But multiples in a single outing? How about multiples at the same intersection? It is not uncommon to see three at a stoplight, all pointing different directions, and all the same color even. Even in the heyday of MSFT stock options, I don't think I'd see that many cars of a single luxury brand everywhere I go. It's cool and all, yet strangely bizarre at the same time. Like Tesla ownership is a rite of passage for Microsoft employees or something. :-) So you can imagine how strange it is to me when we travel to visit my parents in central FL, and don't see a single one the whole time.

mark-r 5y ago

I've noticed a lot more Teslas in the Minneapolis area too. Not quite the way you describe, I still go most days without seeing one. But now it's not unique to see multiple on a single outing.

mikestew 5y ago
I still go most days without seeing one I can't do that even if I don't leave the house. There's a school near our house, and there are a lot of Tesla school buses that drive by. :-) But multiples in a single outing? How about multiples at the same intersection? It is not uncommon to see three at a stoplight, all pointing different directions, and all the same color even. Even in the heyday of MSFT stock options, I don't think I'd see that many cars of a single luxury brand everywhere I go. It's cool and all, yet strangely bizarre at the same time. Like Tesla ownership is a rite of passage for Microsoft employees or something. :-) So you can imagine how strange it is to me when we travel to visit my parents in central FL, and don't see a single one the whole time.