if you are going 40mph on a normal street and floor a plaid for ~2 seconds you are going well over 90MPH. Crazy how fast **** can happen with a few moments of indiscretion.

Then again the brakes in most modern cars are as effective in changing speed but people mostly manage to no do threashold braking while driving down the road.

It looks like equivalent hp rating is 283hp-1,020hp in Tesla models. YMMV of course.
https://www.evspeedy.com/big-tesla-motor/
https://themotordigest.com/how-big-is-a-tesla-electric-motor/

No problem with the engineering, only the range.
A 1/4hp motor with 2gal tank would go a long way for keeping drivers from being stuck in bad neighborhoods or the desert.

Not a clue…….

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My neighbor is 75-yrs old just had a stroke and also just bought a Plaid! I don't think it will end well.

Good lord some of these comments.

I have a Plaid. I bought it specifically for the power. Love it! I have driven cars with far less power that were much more dangerous:

The Widow Maker 930
The Boss 302

Yes, there is a learning curve but these cars are fun to drive.

And to the jackass truck driver: That is by far the most dangerous thing I've read. All these cars have dash cams recording all the time. Just imagine if the Tesla driver stops by the police station and turns over the video. Pretty sure there will be some steep tickets to go with that visit.

Point of clarification. . . In most municipalities a ticket cannot be issued for a traffic offense if the officer did not actually witness the (alleged) crime.

Okay. I thought it was funny too. I was picturing him drinking a cup of tea with his pinky finger pointed out.
Pretty sure it is illegal driving in that mode without being able to grab the controls.
And no jackass can't get a ticket from someone's dash cam although he would get a phone call. (here anyway)

This thread should have been titled, "Let's generalize about all Tesla owners and then hate on them."

We should start a thread, "Ford truck owners are total A-holes."

Actually that guy is a gifted EE, but yeah, he's kind of a dumbass too.

To Porsche gals's comment, the dashcam video of his boneheaded move would have looked like the same crappy driving we all witness 4000 times every day in rush hour traffic, perpetrated by Ford P/Us, Subarus, Priuses, and Cayennes. People oblivious to the fact they are hurtling down the road in 4000 obs of steel moving 70+ mph and inches away from their neighbor. Ive had 2 930's. Brutal and demanding cars, by 1970's standards, and tons of fun because they require you to keep your wits about you. Yet they have maybe only about 40% the performance of Tesla sedan. A very close friend of mine is a 918 owner and I've spent a lot of time in that machine. I can tell you when you press the loud pedal in that thing you'd better know where you are going cause you're going to be there a lot sooner than you expect. And its not a whole lot quickerr than a Tesla, at least up to a certain point.

I think the point is well made that these electric things have supercar performance that is beyond the reflexes and experience of most drivers. People are surviving, because the cars themselves have the technology to let them survive. Tesla guy wearing his coffee was saved by the car, as Matt knew perfectly well that it would. In the process, Tesla guy is being dumbed down, being taught he is not responsible and the world will take care of him.

I still prefer my old cars, with double digit hp, drum brakes, and nothing power assisted, to anything modern (even the 918). There is a great comfort in knowing I'm the only one responsible for my own survival.

Point of clarification, in some municipalities, an officer can actually issue the ticket for the citizen and the citizen must show up in court.

If something worse were to happen when the guy in the pickup purposely cut off the Tesla, I believe the video could have been used as evidence in a criminal proceeding.

I never drive my wife's Model Y faster than the speed limit - usually. The instant torque when passing is actuallky an added safety feature in my opinion. When we picked the car up at the Tesla facility, they gave us the papers and pointed us to the lot where the cars were parked. We were never given any advice on what to expect or how the car was different than driving any other car. I drove it home and clued my wife in on its characteristics when we got there and she drove it.

And you are a perfectly average, stereotypical driver! ;) :D

Agreed. But he would then simply have argued he had no idea the Tesla was there and panicked when he realized another car was in the space he was moving into. Don't get me wrong, I thought it was a crappy thing to have done. But these sorts of manuevers are repeated endlessly every day by inattentive or discourteous drivers. I watch people every day cross 3 or 4 lanes in one swoop to hit the off ramp they almost missed. Just two weeks ago the guy in the lane to my right hit the back end of a stopped semi, moving probably 40 mph, because he wasn't paying attention (Id noticed him fiddling with his phone moments earlier) Driving should be the responsibility of the driver, not the car. Tesla guy reading his paper and drinking his coffee has no business on the road, but that is part of what these new tech vehicles are encouraging. A complete lack of awareness of speed, conditions, and the physics involved.

My wifes new Audi has this nasty habit of telling me which lane to be in. Several times its tried to steer me right off the highway when it believed the lane i was in exited, when in fact exiting was optional from that lane. or if I drift a little too close to the inside shoulder through a turn it pulls the wheel none too gently the other direction right in the middle of a corner. Ive managed to fool around with the touchscreen (a huge distraction in and of itself) and turn the feature off twice. But it keeps turning itself back on. Pisses me off.

One pedal driving? Lift off and you're in regen mode...and the brake lights probably come on.

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Just think, on some Tesla forum someone is *****ing about trying to pass two cars when one of the slowpokes suddenly dives in front of him.
Not saying the OP did anything wrong. Just that there's two sides to every pancake.

Well, technically, there's the edge of the pancake, too.

Your ZL1 Camaro... supercharged 6.2L? Fairly evil.

It is, and with a manual trans which is kinda rare. I love it!

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1694200842.jpg

Nice rig to bring the ice cream home cold, Dixie!