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Unusual Tesla Features - Yazata - Jul 3, 2023
Ellie (from Ellie-in-Space youtube channel) just purchased a Tesla and wants other Tesla owners to tell her about the Easter-egg features hidden in the car. She already discovered one, she found the she can verbally command the car to open its charging port by saying, "Hey Tesla, open your butt-hole!" (This feature sounds like pure-Elon.)
https://twitter.com/esherifftv/status/1675710698557415426
More features
https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-features?op=1
RE: Unusual Tesla Features - C C - Jul 3, 2023
For some reason a few of the features remind me of the car in the film Monolith.
Looks like "dog mode" along with #18 would be good for people who forget their baby or toddler is in the car during a hot summer day, when they intend to just make a dash into a store but then run into an old acquaintance and gab into thoughtless oblivion.
1. Autopilot
2. Caraoke
3. Bioweapon defense mode
4. Touchscreen
5. Streaming and video gaming
6. Web browser
7. Easter eggs
8. Smart auto raising air suspension system that changes based on the GPS coordinates of your vehicle
9. Sentry mode
10. Superchargers
11. The key
12. Auto-presenting doors
13. The app
14. Over-the-air updates
15. Ludicrous Plus mode
6. Plaid mode
17. Dog mode
18. Automatic cabin overheat protection
19. Fart mode
20. The frunk
21. Explicit lyrics bar on infotainment system
RE: Unusual Tesla Features - Yazata - Feb 28, 2024
Tesla's original model was the roadster. Elon had an early one but shot it into space where it remains, eternally orbiting the Sun. (I actually saw one parked down the street from my house a few months ago. I expect they are worth big bucks now.)
Well, Tesla is bringing back a roadster model. And Elon is teasing it... "there will never be another car like this..."
When the guy who brought you self-driving cars, brain-computer interfaces, robots and giant interplanetary spaceships talks up "the most mind-blowing product demo of all time" people's curiosity perks up.
![[Image: GHZu5kbWkAAu4e6?format=png&name=small]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GHZu5kbWkAAu4e6?format=png&name=small)
RE: Unusual Tesla Features - Yazata - Feb 29, 2024
Elon says,,,
0-60mph < 1 sec
And that is the least interesting part
That works out to 2.7 Gs! Real push-you-back-in-your-seat stuff.
Automotive engineers point out that even with dragster style slicks, the theoretical limit is 1.5-1.6 sec 0-60 time. Except....
Rumor is that what they plan to do is add a small rocket engine. Hence acceleration won't be a product of engine torque through the tires, but pure thrust out the back.
If that's what they plan to do, it's hard to see how it could be street-legal. I'd be worried that it would get air under it, fly up off the road and become an uncontrollable missile.
We all know the old gripe: If this is the future (2024!!!) where is my flying car??? Well...
RE: Unusual Tesla Features - confused2 - Feb 29, 2024
Seems the Teslas lack a 'passenger count' feature..
Quote:The couple's daughter Nancy wandered off to the toilets while they were arranging lifts and they only realised she was not with them when they got home ...https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2012/jun/11/david-cameron-daughter-behind-pub
Could happen to anyone.
Quote:..The prime minister* and Samantha were distraught when they realised Nancy wasn't with them.
* Not the current UK PM - it was David Cameron - now Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs