My theory is that it is isn’t the badge on the car, it’s the fact that people’s grocery getter now was the performance of a high-end sports car from a decade ago. And, like a with a sports car, Teslas are designed to encourage users to have “fun” driving. Every test drive from a Tesla store ALWAYS includes a segment where the store rep encourages people gun it onto or on a large open road.
Before Telsa it was the German manufacturers who dominated the commuter-car-with-sports-car-performance market. And guess what? Those people drove like a-holes.
Not even this, but from what I hear cars with that level of performance are harder to keep under control because they can go so fast. I know responsible drivers who are nervous/scared to drive these vehicles because of how fast they can go, you have to be extra careful when putting your foot on the gas.
They should make a mode that disables those performance speeds.
Re bullet 2. Irresponsibility.
My theory is that it is isn’t the badge on the car, it’s the fact that people’s grocery getter now was the performance of a high-end sports car from a decade ago. And, like a with a sports car, Teslas are designed to encourage users to have “fun” driving. Every test drive from a Tesla store ALWAYS includes a segment where the store rep encourages people gun it onto or on a large open road.
Before Telsa it was the German manufacturers who dominated the commuter-car-with-sports-car-performance market. And guess what? Those people drove like a-holes.
That is not true. I mean the bit where you put that into the past tense. They still do.
Not even this, but from what I hear cars with that level of performance are harder to keep under control because they can go so fast. I know responsible drivers who are nervous/scared to drive these vehicles because of how fast they can go, you have to be extra careful when putting your foot on the gas.
They should make a mode that disables those performance speeds.