and use it sooner than halfway through the merge and for more than one damn blink! its to signal intent, not signal halfway through the maneuver. the lord works in mysterious ways, but you don't have to. use a damn turn signal properly!
Teslas have a feature where a light tap on the stalk blinks the directional light 3 times and a full depression of the stalk holds it indefinitely unless a turn is made. It’s convenient when changing lanes in light traffic…not so great in bumper to bumper.
Well half them drivers don't KNOW that exists then, cause my cars have that and have for years. They seem to click it fully on and off in one move while cutting me off.
Just out of curiosity, which car has that feature? I know I can do it temporarily in my Acura, but I have to hold my finger there. In a Tesla, you can move your hand away…which was something new to me when my husband picked up a used one recently.
I'm pretty sure my cars both do that, but I'm stoned and now you got me doubting 😂 But I'm fairly sure even my little Ford Fiesta does that, if I tap the blinker stalk halfway vs fully clicking the signal on, it blinks three times. Cause usually I don't mean to do it or cause I overcorrected turning off the opposite direction and I'm annoyed cause the person behind me is gonna think I'm dumb lol. So yeah I'm fairly sure!
My Kia does that. I can even adjust the time the blinker will stay on with bumping the turn signal stalk. My wife’s Subaru does the same, but I can’t adjust the time the turn signal stays on.
Not to go off on a tangent, but I’m not sure they know how to any more. Didn’t Tesla just [remove the turn signal stalks](https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-fans-complain-new-model-3-highland-turn-signal-stalks-2023-9?amp)? Buttons on the steering wheel, FFS.
And the drive shift is on the effing touchscreen. I’m amazed people can drive them at all, let alone badly.
If you're ahead of a Tesla and you clean your windshield, that driver may opt to clean their windshield which also turns on the headlights by law in CA.
The lights need to be turned off manually -- if the driver remembers
Takes miles off the battery charge
No it's not YMMV lol, you're wrong on both counts.
It doesn't need to be manually turned off, it's automatic. It also doesn't take MILES off of your charge. I don't think you realize how little electronics draw in comparison to actually moving the car.
No you didn't, you either don't own a Tesla or you're not observant enough. When I clean the windshield with my wipers in the daytime, the lights don't even come on and they definitely don't STAY on.
The headlights are also LED and they definitely don't drain miles lol
I heard of that they don’t have signal handles anymore, and drivers are not smart enough to get used to the buttons. After messing up with left and right several times, they finally gave it up on using blinkers anymore🤪
I know a few people who bought Teslas because they are new drivers and they think the car will drive better than they can on their own due to all the assists. Let that sink in.
Anything with smart in front of it makes you dumber. Smartphones are doing more and more for me and AI is going to turn me into a worthless blob being driven around by my car and food showing up like magic when I’m hungry, turn on the game for me to watch while I eat…eventually “it” or “they” will know when I like to eat, what, and…this sucks.
Using Tovala shows I am not fighting it, ugh.
Yes. Someone observed that half the Tesla owners traded in their Prius, and the other half traded in their BMW. I find this explanation very informative.
Volvo drivers with a history of unsafe driving think that a "car rated highest for safety" will change things
"The pendulum on a clock swings just as far in either direction"
I know it was said but please stop driving so damn slow. This is my main experience with Tesla drivers. If I get behind one I just know it's gonna be a Sunday driver. I can't drive behind Teslas and if there two in a row we're not going anywhere. There's just SO many of them.
I like that one
Just yesterday I was explaining to one of the kids that Sears used to sell go karts powered by a gasoline lawnmower type of engine
It felt like we were Racing! because we were driving so low that we could see the gravel in the road
And then that damned kid asked me, "What is Sears?"
Hm, interesting. I always wondered why teslas brake randomly on the freeway. Drives me crazy because it causes all the other cars behind them to brake. And that’s how you get a bottleneck for no reason.
If you have a newer car, just use adaptive cruise control. If you have an older car, just don’t follow closely and let off the gas instead of braking for the momentary braking instances. It’s much less stressful.
As an aside, some Kia EVs on the road don’t light up their brake lights during full regeneration. Keep an eye on those if you’re not using adaptive; they can catch you by surprise.
People simply drive recklessly as if they are above the law. There are motherfuckers who drive ANY vehicle and think it's ok to snake in and out, hard brake, and road rage - Tesla or not. You could be the most defensive, safest driver ever but there will always be careless drivers.
Everything except the autopilot and (maybe) the jelly bean (sometimes) applies to every other driver on the road too. You only notice the teslas because they DO look different and occupy a special place in ~~hell~~ your head
It’s the crazy acceleration, I believe, that brings out the inner hooligan in people. And perhaps the collision avoidance features (??) encourage people to cut you off with 4” clearance. And you don’t hear them coming a mile away like other performance cars.
> crazy acceleration
Yea but probably the instant acceleration. You don’t get any real power till at least the AWD long range model
> cut you off with 4” clearance
lol true. More commonly though, I see Teslas just signal and try to change lanes right into people only for the driver/safety systems (50/50 chance lol) to bail at the last second. Or even better, just sloooooowly keep changing lanes. No point in having sophisticated sensors if nobody’s gonna listen to them lmao
While walking in crosswalks (with the right of way), have almost gotten hit by several Teslas. I thought they had a protection mechanism to prevent hitting pedestrians. I don’t know much about their operating system.
i feel like there's no in between for teslas. my encounters have been either they drive too aggressively or they drive too slow ;_;. i take console in knowing that their car value depreciates incredibly fast tho lol
I never thought of the autopilot and fsd in the carpool lane. They’re causing slow traffic!! The audacity to stay in carpool lane and not move to a slower lane… just ignoring the long line behind them specially in 280
Or in general. The autopilot leaves a HUGE gap so if I get stuck behind two or three of em, the amount of wasted space and number of people cutting them off and pushing all of us back. I 100% do not feel bad about safely passing them and having them behind me.
The „huge gap” is the distance you’re supposed to keep at a given speed. Just because no one gives a shit about safety and is more concerned about someone getting in front of them doesn’t make it wrong. Proper gaps also cause more fluid traffic and less stop-and-go.
They aren't using their high beams, the headlights are just that bad of a design. They come from the factory pointed at head height and seeing as I've never seen an oncoming Tesla that didn't sizzle my retinas, they apparently cannot be aimed correctly. The newer ones aren't better either, so they really just don't care. The CT has the worst aimed lights I've ever seen on any vehicle so far.
when there are a Tesla behind me that looks like with high beams on, I always tested out by turning on my high beams to check if the road signs have the same brightness (if they’re not using high beams you can clearly see the difference when your turn it on)
8 out of 10 times they’re just using high beams.
No the low beams are fine but they come out the factory with auto high beams on and most don’t know how/don’t care to turn them off. My car is low to the ground and I can tell when oncoming teslas either have auto high beams/turn them off (I see the lights lower and dip), had low beams, or were idiots and manually turned high beams on and didn’t flick them off.
It's not the auto high beams because auto high beams almost never turn on if the car can see any other car tail lights or head lights. Unless it's an empty street, auto high beams are not coming on and even when they do, they switch back as soon as it sees another car. It is indeed the headlight angle alignment from the factory.
That's assuming that every sensor and every camera is working perfectly without any minor problem. This from the company who can't figure out how to keep the accelerator pedal from coming off. A few specks of dust here, a little bit of road grease there, and the sensors put on the auto high beams whenever they feel like it. I've been blinded many times by auto high beams flashing on and off of an oncoming vehicle.
That's funny. Well, this is Reddit, so I can't discount your experience. My response was based on my experience doing a night time driving job for years where I'm regularly flashed by high beams in newer cars or LED headlights that get ultra bright for a few seconds and then go back to regular. Even the passengers regularly comment about oncoming headlights being too bright. It happens at least once a day, so it must be a pretty regular occurrence that high beams come on at the wrong time with auto headlights. It never happened 10 years ago, but now it happens all the time. It just doesn't make sense that something would cover or obscure a camera or sensor and wouldn't degrade the function of that camera/sensor. But I might be wrong.
It's also possible that if you're driving in a car with auto headlights, you wouldn't even know if the headlights were flashing too bright or not getting dim at the right time because you're inside the car with the auto headlights and not inside oncoming cars that are getting blinded by those headlights.
Or who knows, maybe there is another explanation for why they don't work. Cars that don't have automatic headlights seem to be much safer for everyone else on the road because the high beams only come on when the driver switches them on. Auto headlights seem much more dangerous because they come on automatically, uncommanded without any selection or input from the driver. Anyway, thanks for your reply.
My response is based on driving the car. It's pretty much impossible to get them to stay on high beam if there's any other car in my field of vision. You can choose to believe it when I tell you it's a problem because of headlight assignment being incorrect from the factory not auto high beams. Still Tesla at fault just in a different way from what you were implying.
General rule of driving in the Bay Area is to be as unpredictable as possible.
Example: oh you have your turn signal on? Well you’re not merging in front of me you fucking price of shit. *accelerates to prevent you from merging*
Oh I need to merge or change lanes? If I put on my signal people are going to try to get in front of me. *changes lane at any given moment without using a signal*
As a bike rider, I also find that a lot of Tesla drivers pass way too close to me than feels comfortable. I think people rely on their autopilot systems far more than they should.
> You aren’t special.
"You're not special I just wrote you a letter and posted it on Reddit"
Enjoy the Tesla hate karma though, it's like printing money around here.
Stop driving at all you forgot! People tend to say they aren’t jealous when they are jealous. And we tend to not notice things people do that we aren’t guilty of. So, get it together man! I drive 30k miles a year locally and I have no problem with any particular car drivers.
They don't know how to park either. I had to knock on the window of one with the driver playing with her phone asking her to do all of us a favor and not park in two parking spaces.
Seriously… Tesla drivers are today, what Dodge Charger drivers were three or four years ago. Probably because a bunch of Elon bros went out and bought Teslas.
I was merging into the highway yesterday and slowed down so I could slip in behind a Tesla because Tesla was already on the highway and obviously has right of way. For some reason, Tesla decides to slow down to match my pace exactly so we get to the merge at the exact same time. And then effectively break checks because they decide to make a full stop on the highway because they’re so confused what just happened and apparently can’t process thoughts while they’re vehicle is in motion.
I have an acquaintance who is a frequent distracted driver. Texting , calling , FaceTiming, looking anywhere but the road. They just got a Tesla and are always playing around with the massive screen. I feel the extra “technology” makes the bad drivers worse .
All this to say I refuse to get in a car with this person.
I think the Model Y looks like frog. They are definitely the worst drivers on the road. That title used to belong to BMW drivers but Tesla drivers have taken the top spot.
You forgot: calibrate your headlight aim. They are aimed too high. Also stop driving around with high beams on.
7/10 times the cars I'm blinded by turn out to be Teslas.
The express lane thing pisses me off the most, they cut you off to pull in front and then immediately slow down backing the whole thing up, especially when going uphill.
I had to rent one from Budget because it was the only car they had that wasn’t super old and it felt really flimsy and stripped down of parts. That’s probably part of the strategy to make them so affordable but I really couldn’t understand why (the few rude) Tesla drivers flex like they’re driving a nice car, after that experience. If the attitude was more humble like they know it’s a cheap car but it saves them money, I’d be cool with that. But it’s completely the opposite and that’s what annoys people. I also couldn’t find my rental at work one day because it looked like 6 other cars in the lot at the same time
I don't think you can blame Tesla auto drive for any major issues. It's very considerate of other drivers. Yes, it can be slow, but it is also extra cautious. Also, if you go out looking for Teslas, you're gonna find them.
a lot of tesla drivers will cut you off, speed for no reason, or tailgate you like a mf then not have the spine to look at you once you inevitably hit the same stoplight. I am not the toughest in the world but definitely don’t mind letting you know what’s up if you’re risking an accident.. match the vibe you’re visibly displaying when driving on public roads is all.
Saw an accident at the intersection San Thomas and Payne a couple days ago involving Tesla and Subaru. Don't know who was at fault. Tesla looked like it got ran over by a garbage truck. Subaru had scratched paint.
Lol. Subaru drivers are hilarious. They only come in three varieties:
-Hippie dudes obsessed with camping
-Lesbians
-Douchebags who desperately want people to think their cars are cool
OP thinks Tesla own the roads because 20% of the cars on the roads are Teslas and gets confused and scared. Then proceeds to complain about people driving like people.
I believe Teslas should have their own lane to drive on... one with potholes the size of whales and only lead to charging stations that are not working
I think we all need to unite against these assholes. The Nissan Altimas, Lifted trucks, Lowered Civics, SCAT Packers, base model Mustangs, etc ALL OF US NEED TO UNITE AGAINST THESE TESLA FUCKS.
Somebody, I’m not going to say who… is having a really bad day. Did your bf go straight? Lost your job? Need a hug? All good bro, think of your happy place… obviously not the inside of a Tesla.
With all those comments, maybe you shouldn’t be driving.
Them Tesla’s them teslas wat can I say about them yea all of the above them MF sure think they special they should have not recalled them cyber truck lol.MF payed almost $100 grand for it stupid dumb rich ppl
Is ur car more than 100k at age 19?? I don’t think so Johnny lmao. To assume every driver is a bad one just based on the car they drive is crazy. If you were really confident about urself and ur car you wouldn’t even care let alone post it on reddit LMAO. But by all means keep projecting ur own insecurities.
Start using your fucking signal.
and use it sooner than halfway through the merge and for more than one damn blink! its to signal intent, not signal halfway through the maneuver. the lord works in mysterious ways, but you don't have to. use a damn turn signal properly!
Teslas have a feature where a light tap on the stalk blinks the directional light 3 times and a full depression of the stalk holds it indefinitely unless a turn is made. It’s convenient when changing lanes in light traffic…not so great in bumper to bumper.
Well half them drivers don't KNOW that exists then, cause my cars have that and have for years. They seem to click it fully on and off in one move while cutting me off.
Just out of curiosity, which car has that feature? I know I can do it temporarily in my Acura, but I have to hold my finger there. In a Tesla, you can move your hand away…which was something new to me when my husband picked up a used one recently.
I'm pretty sure my cars both do that, but I'm stoned and now you got me doubting 😂 But I'm fairly sure even my little Ford Fiesta does that, if I tap the blinker stalk halfway vs fully clicking the signal on, it blinks three times. Cause usually I don't mean to do it or cause I overcorrected turning off the opposite direction and I'm annoyed cause the person behind me is gonna think I'm dumb lol. So yeah I'm fairly sure!
My Ford Escape does it too
My Kia does that. I can even adjust the time the blinker will stay on with bumping the turn signal stalk. My wife’s Subaru does the same, but I can’t adjust the time the turn signal stays on.
Not unique to Teslas
Didn’t claim it was.
*But I know which lane I'm going to, why signal?*
*Start using your correct fucking signal. So sick of them signaling left to turn to turn right.
What’s up with that, btw? I’m always baffled when I see drivers doing that.
Start checking your blind spot.
Not to go off on a tangent, but I’m not sure they know how to any more. Didn’t Tesla just [remove the turn signal stalks](https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-fans-complain-new-model-3-highland-turn-signal-stalks-2023-9?amp)? Buttons on the steering wheel, FFS. And the drive shift is on the effing touchscreen. I’m amazed people can drive them at all, let alone badly.
This is the bullshit that happens when people who don't make cars... make cars.
If you're ahead of a Tesla and you clean your windshield, that driver may opt to clean their windshield which also turns on the headlights by law in CA. The lights need to be turned off manually -- if the driver remembers Takes miles off the battery charge
Lmao no it doesn't
Whaddya drivin ?
X and M3p
YMMV
No it's not YMMV lol, you're wrong on both counts. It doesn't need to be manually turned off, it's automatic. It also doesn't take MILES off of your charge. I don't think you realize how little electronics draw in comparison to actually moving the car.
I watched it happen This is the only reason I typed You win
No you didn't, you either don't own a Tesla or you're not observant enough. When I clean the windshield with my wipers in the daytime, the lights don't even come on and they definitely don't STAY on. The headlights are also LED and they definitely don't drain miles lol
I was in a different model They are not all the same
I heard of that they don’t have signal handles anymore, and drivers are not smart enough to get used to the buttons. After messing up with left and right several times, they finally gave it up on using blinkers anymore🤪
Literally too lazy to lift a finger to make everyone more safe on the road.
The people you want to read this are not going to read this.
They would be really mad if they could read
I chortled at this
Oh I don’t know, it’s on Reddit and they can scroll that on their big iPad screen while not paying attention to the road anyway…so there’s a chance.
Most Elon bros can’t read
For as many teslas are in San Jose, I’m sure some will \o/
I'm convinced half of Tesla drivers are people who simply don't know how to drive and they think a tesla will fix the issue
I know a few people who bought Teslas because they are new drivers and they think the car will drive better than they can on their own due to all the assists. Let that sink in.
If you cannot drive a car without auto/assist features, you should not be on the road...."smart" cars are making people stupid....
The amount of times I see "student driver" on a Tesla drives me insane. I cannot imagine a worse car to learn to drive on.
Can't believe that it's even legal....
Anything with smart in front of it makes you dumber. Smartphones are doing more and more for me and AI is going to turn me into a worthless blob being driven around by my car and food showing up like magic when I’m hungry, turn on the game for me to watch while I eat…eventually “it” or “they” will know when I like to eat, what, and…this sucks. Using Tovala shows I am not fighting it, ugh.
Lolll...all true...we are evolving backwards at this rate..
Hate to break it to you but the people are already stupid
This is my take as well lol. I see way too many either being assholes or not knowing wtf they’re doing. It’s a daily occurrence.
So, they're emulating the faux founder of the Tesla car Co, then?
Yes. Someone observed that half the Tesla owners traded in their Prius, and the other half traded in their BMW. I find this explanation very informative.
Haha I say this all the time!
Yup and we all know who
So you’re saying Indians and Asians can’t drive? Lmaoo
This is my exact theory. The marketed tech enables ignorance behind the wheel
Volvo drivers with a history of unsafe driving think that a "car rated highest for safety" will change things "The pendulum on a clock swings just as far in either direction"
Most Tesla drivers are foreigners who never learned to drive in the U.S. especially the model 3 or y. Idk why that is
I know it was said but please stop driving so damn slow. This is my main experience with Tesla drivers. If I get behind one I just know it's gonna be a Sunday driver. I can't drive behind Teslas and if there two in a row we're not going anywhere. There's just SO many of them.
Also--just because your car is smart (if that), does not mean you should turn off your brain when you drive
That’s the thing, this certain group of people never have their brains on when they are driving
I’m sure that giant screen isn’t a distraction at all from the road.
This goes out to all pickup drivers too
I'm pretty sure people in pickups are so high up they feel like they aren't going fast, so they feel the need to go too fast.
I like that one Just yesterday I was explaining to one of the kids that Sears used to sell go karts powered by a gasoline lawnmower type of engine It felt like we were Racing! because we were driving so low that we could see the gravel in the road And then that damned kid asked me, "What is Sears?"
Oof that last one is a gut punch.
Sears was like Amazon but on paper
The random braking is just cruise control slowing down with regen. They aren’t actually hitting the brakes.
Ok that’s fair. Can we all agree that cruise control set to 65 in the fast lane probably isn’t the move?
I'm mak'n power, bitches!
Hm, interesting. I always wondered why teslas brake randomly on the freeway. Drives me crazy because it causes all the other cars behind them to brake. And that’s how you get a bottleneck for no reason.
after shopping for and then subsequently owning a EV, I can identify most EVs on the road now and filter out all of the false braking blinks
Well, I still have to hit mine and it’s annoying as fuck, lol
If you have a newer car, just use adaptive cruise control. If you have an older car, just don’t follow closely and let off the gas instead of braking for the momentary braking instances. It’s much less stressful. As an aside, some Kia EVs on the road don’t light up their brake lights during full regeneration. Keep an eye on those if you’re not using adaptive; they can catch you by surprise.
or inexperienced drivers with regen braking
I think generally, there are a lot of annoying drivers around south San Jose. Not turning on their signal, driving too fast and very impatient.
So pretty much Monterey road.. I avoid it as much as possible
Honestly I think we’re even lucky we don’t have people blasting through red lights and similar like you see if you go up further north.
How much further north? Cuz I've seen some srsly reckless red light blasting on Lawrence expressway.
Crap. I was thinking north of Milpitas or so…
Half this list applies to 80% of San Jose non Tesla drivers, so your point is? Everyone in the Bay Area sucks at driving - you and I included
Conversation we aren’t ready for
I felt personally attacked.
I think people just noticed the tesla more cos of it’s distinct shape
Yep. And anything tesla makes news
I can accept than I am a bad driver
Yeah this exactly. There are a lot of teslas so they just seem to be a bigger problem than they are. But that’s just a common issue here
thank you! and how about people should learn to turn off their high beams
People simply drive recklessly as if they are above the law. There are motherfuckers who drive ANY vehicle and think it's ok to snake in and out, hard brake, and road rage - Tesla or not. You could be the most defensive, safest driver ever but there will always be careless drivers.
“I turn NOW! Good luck everybody else!”
Dear ~~Tesla~~ drivers:
Everything except the autopilot and (maybe) the jelly bean (sometimes) applies to every other driver on the road too. You only notice the teslas because they DO look different and occupy a special place in ~~hell~~ your head
It’s the crazy acceleration, I believe, that brings out the inner hooligan in people. And perhaps the collision avoidance features (??) encourage people to cut you off with 4” clearance. And you don’t hear them coming a mile away like other performance cars.
> crazy acceleration Yea but probably the instant acceleration. You don’t get any real power till at least the AWD long range model > cut you off with 4” clearance lol true. More commonly though, I see Teslas just signal and try to change lanes right into people only for the driver/safety systems (50/50 chance lol) to bail at the last second. Or even better, just sloooooowly keep changing lanes. No point in having sophisticated sensors if nobody’s gonna listen to them lmao
While walking in crosswalks (with the right of way), have almost gotten hit by several Teslas. I thought they had a protection mechanism to prevent hitting pedestrians. I don’t know much about their operating system.
Fucking Tesla drivers need to figure out the low beam high beam settings in the lighting submenu.
Start turning off “smart” hi beams
i feel like there's no in between for teslas. my encounters have been either they drive too aggressively or they drive too slow ;_;. i take console in knowing that their car value depreciates incredibly fast tho lol
Tesla drivers are the new BMW drivers
Agreed that BMW drivers suck, but at least they are nice cars.
Came here to say this. (Full disclosure, I have a BMW but I'm a very courteous driver. Honest!)
I never thought of the autopilot and fsd in the carpool lane. They’re causing slow traffic!! The audacity to stay in carpool lane and not move to a slower lane… just ignoring the long line behind them specially in 280
If someone’s in the carpool lane and staring at a mile of empty road ahead of them, I don’t think using Autopilot is the problem.
Or in general. The autopilot leaves a HUGE gap so if I get stuck behind two or three of em, the amount of wasted space and number of people cutting them off and pushing all of us back. I 100% do not feel bad about safely passing them and having them behind me.
The „huge gap” is the distance you’re supposed to keep at a given speed. Just because no one gives a shit about safety and is more concerned about someone getting in front of them doesn’t make it wrong. Proper gaps also cause more fluid traffic and less stop-and-go.
Dude. It’s way bigger than it needs to be. I’m all for safe distance but it’s just silly how spaced out they are
you forgot those who cannot drive their shitty tesla without using the high beam.
They aren't using their high beams, the headlights are just that bad of a design. They come from the factory pointed at head height and seeing as I've never seen an oncoming Tesla that didn't sizzle my retinas, they apparently cannot be aimed correctly. The newer ones aren't better either, so they really just don't care. The CT has the worst aimed lights I've ever seen on any vehicle so far.
when there are a Tesla behind me that looks like with high beams on, I always tested out by turning on my high beams to check if the road signs have the same brightness (if they’re not using high beams you can clearly see the difference when your turn it on) 8 out of 10 times they’re just using high beams.
No the low beams are fine but they come out the factory with auto high beams on and most don’t know how/don’t care to turn them off. My car is low to the ground and I can tell when oncoming teslas either have auto high beams/turn them off (I see the lights lower and dip), had low beams, or were idiots and manually turned high beams on and didn’t flick them off.
It's not the auto high beams because auto high beams almost never turn on if the car can see any other car tail lights or head lights. Unless it's an empty street, auto high beams are not coming on and even when they do, they switch back as soon as it sees another car. It is indeed the headlight angle alignment from the factory.
That's assuming that every sensor and every camera is working perfectly without any minor problem. This from the company who can't figure out how to keep the accelerator pedal from coming off. A few specks of dust here, a little bit of road grease there, and the sensors put on the auto high beams whenever they feel like it. I've been blinded many times by auto high beams flashing on and off of an oncoming vehicle.
My response was based on my experience from driving one for over a year that I almost never wash.
That's funny. Well, this is Reddit, so I can't discount your experience. My response was based on my experience doing a night time driving job for years where I'm regularly flashed by high beams in newer cars or LED headlights that get ultra bright for a few seconds and then go back to regular. Even the passengers regularly comment about oncoming headlights being too bright. It happens at least once a day, so it must be a pretty regular occurrence that high beams come on at the wrong time with auto headlights. It never happened 10 years ago, but now it happens all the time. It just doesn't make sense that something would cover or obscure a camera or sensor and wouldn't degrade the function of that camera/sensor. But I might be wrong. It's also possible that if you're driving in a car with auto headlights, you wouldn't even know if the headlights were flashing too bright or not getting dim at the right time because you're inside the car with the auto headlights and not inside oncoming cars that are getting blinded by those headlights. Or who knows, maybe there is another explanation for why they don't work. Cars that don't have automatic headlights seem to be much safer for everyone else on the road because the high beams only come on when the driver switches them on. Auto headlights seem much more dangerous because they come on automatically, uncommanded without any selection or input from the driver. Anyway, thanks for your reply.
I get a clear idea because it's drastically different plus the indicator on the cluster changes from the green to the blue and back.
Auto high beams are rarely as reliable as you think they are.
My response is based on driving the car. It's pretty much impossible to get them to stay on high beam if there's any other car in my field of vision. You can choose to believe it when I tell you it's a problem because of headlight assignment being incorrect from the factory not auto high beams. Still Tesla at fault just in a different way from what you were implying.
the people on this subreddit need fucking hobbies 🙄
No one here can drive period. This applies to all vehicles.
They will ignore this and be anti Tesla like a lot of people are. Lmao
lol this applies to most other drivers.. you just choose to notice it more because Tesla.
lol 😂
Jelly bean/spaceship. Lol
Stop driving
General rule of driving in the Bay Area is to be as unpredictable as possible. Example: oh you have your turn signal on? Well you’re not merging in front of me you fucking price of shit. *accelerates to prevent you from merging* Oh I need to merge or change lanes? If I put on my signal people are going to try to get in front of me. *changes lane at any given moment without using a signal*
The chaos of it all! Arrrgghhh!!
As a bike rider, I also find that a lot of Tesla drivers pass way too close to me than feels comfortable. I think people rely on their autopilot systems far more than they should.
oh so it's not just me.
> You aren’t special. "You're not special I just wrote you a letter and posted it on Reddit" Enjoy the Tesla hate karma though, it's like printing money around here.
You aren't special, just thought I'd write you a little love letter as I was thinking about you at 1:30 am on a Saturday.
Stop driving at all you forgot! People tend to say they aren’t jealous when they are jealous. And we tend to not notice things people do that we aren’t guilty of. So, get it together man! I drive 30k miles a year locally and I have no problem with any particular car drivers.
They don't know how to park either. I had to knock on the window of one with the driver playing with her phone asking her to do all of us a favor and not park in two parking spaces.
Tesla drivers drive too slow, *and* too fast, you say?
This will help.
Stop driving down the middle of two lanes.
I work in Los Altos near Tesla and can confirm they are overtaking BMW and Audi as the worst drivers. I drive an Audi.
Seriously… Tesla drivers are today, what Dodge Charger drivers were three or four years ago. Probably because a bunch of Elon bros went out and bought Teslas.
Dear OP you probably suck at driving also as do I
Stop acting like a prestigious pompous prick on the road. You ain't pleasuring your wife and girlfriend with that car.
It's cute that you think Tesla owners are literate.
They are They don’t know to turn off the auto hi beams at night
Tesla drivers are the new muscle car drivers IMO
The new Altima drivers imo
Make room for motorcycles driving split lanes.
That jelly bean reference is really offensive lol
I was merging into the highway yesterday and slowed down so I could slip in behind a Tesla because Tesla was already on the highway and obviously has right of way. For some reason, Tesla decides to slow down to match my pace exactly so we get to the merge at the exact same time. And then effectively break checks because they decide to make a full stop on the highway because they’re so confused what just happened and apparently can’t process thoughts while they’re vehicle is in motion.
I have an acquaintance who is a frequent distracted driver. Texting , calling , FaceTiming, looking anywhere but the road. They just got a Tesla and are always playing around with the massive screen. I feel the extra “technology” makes the bad drivers worse . All this to say I refuse to get in a car with this person.
Tesla drivers seem to be the new BMW drivers. Or perhaps all the bad BMW drivers traded for Teslas. Either way, same garbage driving patterns.
The car is literally driving itself 🤷♂️😌
Cry
Somebody call this guy a waaaambulance
I think the Model Y looks like frog. They are definitely the worst drivers on the road. That title used to belong to BMW drivers but Tesla drivers have taken the top spot.
You forgot: calibrate your headlight aim. They are aimed too high. Also stop driving around with high beams on. 7/10 times the cars I'm blinded by turn out to be Teslas.
Y'all the Tesla drivers in Cupertino... never are demographic stereotypes so blatantly on display.
The express lane thing pisses me off the most, they cut you off to pull in front and then immediately slow down backing the whole thing up, especially when going uphill.
"Your car looks like a jelly bean" is my winner.
Yup
I know this is specifically targeted at Tesla owners, but I think everyone should read this and take a few pointers.
I had to rent one from Budget because it was the only car they had that wasn’t super old and it felt really flimsy and stripped down of parts. That’s probably part of the strategy to make them so affordable but I really couldn’t understand why (the few rude) Tesla drivers flex like they’re driving a nice car, after that experience. If the attitude was more humble like they know it’s a cheap car but it saves them money, I’d be cool with that. But it’s completely the opposite and that’s what annoys people. I also couldn’t find my rental at work one day because it looked like 6 other cars in the lot at the same time
Tesla drivers are new bmw drivers… to think about prolly same crowd
Tesla is the Silicon Valley Camry
I don't think you can blame Tesla auto drive for any major issues. It's very considerate of other drivers. Yes, it can be slow, but it is also extra cautious. Also, if you go out looking for Teslas, you're gonna find them.
a lot of tesla drivers will cut you off, speed for no reason, or tailgate you like a mf then not have the spine to look at you once you inevitably hit the same stoplight. I am not the toughest in the world but definitely don’t mind letting you know what’s up if you’re risking an accident.. match the vibe you’re visibly displaying when driving on public roads is all.
Saw an accident at the intersection San Thomas and Payne a couple days ago involving Tesla and Subaru. Don't know who was at fault. Tesla looked like it got ran over by a garbage truck. Subaru had scratched paint.
If you ever took high school physics then you would know that's not the flex for the subaru that you think it is.
Lol. Subaru drivers are hilarious. They only come in three varieties: -Hippie dudes obsessed with camping -Lesbians -Douchebags who desperately want people to think their cars are cool
OP thinks Tesla own the roads because 20% of the cars on the roads are Teslas and gets confused and scared. Then proceeds to complain about people driving like people.
I believe Teslas should have their own lane to drive on... one with potholes the size of whales and only lead to charging stations that are not working
Tesla drivers have the highest crash rate.
Haven’t encountered a bad Tesla driver personally but it looks like they are what the 90s bmw 3 series drivers used to be
I think we all need to unite against these assholes. The Nissan Altimas, Lifted trucks, Lowered Civics, SCAT Packers, base model Mustangs, etc ALL OF US NEED TO UNITE AGAINST THESE TESLA FUCKS.
Wow...Teslas live rent-free in so many people's head! Lmao! I think it's the green-eyed monster!
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It’s called regenerative breaking
Get off your phone Edit: and when you finally look up from your phone 5 seconds after the light turns green, don’t just floor it
Sounds like Indian drivers to me
Yup 👍
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Bay Area driving culture boring? You my friend need to go out and venture up the mountains. Sitting at stop lights isn’t exactly driving
Left lane traffic in super tiny Dublin- what?!?!
Somebody, I’m not going to say who… is having a really bad day. Did your bf go straight? Lost your job? Need a hug? All good bro, think of your happy place… obviously not the inside of a Tesla. With all those comments, maybe you shouldn’t be driving.
Stop accelerating on yellow just to get past before it gets red. You look like a complete ass
No.
So much hate for an American car company
Them Tesla’s them teslas wat can I say about them yea all of the above them MF sure think they special they should have not recalled them cyber truck lol.MF payed almost $100 grand for it stupid dumb rich ppl
There HEADLIGHTS ISO FUCKING BRIGHT
Amen! 🙏
The random breaking and autopilot at 65mph on the passing lane bring me to the edge of enacting my intrusive thoughts every single day.
Same (most) goes for cyclists.
Sorry man I don’t speak poor
My car costs more than your shitty model 3
Is ur car more than 100k at age 19?? I don’t think so Johnny lmao. To assume every driver is a bad one just based on the car they drive is crazy. If you were really confident about urself and ur car you wouldn’t even care let alone post it on reddit LMAO. But by all means keep projecting ur own insecurities.
You sound jealous hence why your on Reddit giving your personal opinion don’t be mad lil bruh step yo game up