another anecdote: an acquaintance let a friend borrow their Tesla X plaid (or similar, I think this was before plaid). Upon leaving their subdivision the "friend" immediately totaled the X by launching it into a drainage ditch in Florida. I've never driven a Tesla X or any car with this much power. I am surprised by how someone can get into so much trouble in 550 feet - but clearly people are surprised and don't let up on the accelerator.
I just rented a similar Model X (P100D) last week. They are remarkably fast for the size of the vehicle, but I found the accelerator pedal to be the closest thing to an ideal throttle control that I've experienced. It's extremely gentle and forgiving in slow/close situations (e.g. parallel parking), has instantaneous response and backing off of it brings an aggressive regen braking effect that is very featherable (?) and useful.
I would guess they just panicked in a strange an extremely expensive car and weren't able to lift their foot off the pedal once doom was imminent. It happened to me when I was a kid, I ran over a fence while turning my dad's girlfriends car around in a tight parking lot. I accidentally goosed the throttle while backing up, panicked, then stomped it to the floor while backing over that poor fence. Very strange experience, almost like my leg was being shocked and I couldn't control it.
It could also be the carpets. The carpets suck. They have good velcro to stick to the floor, but there's a terrible glue that keeps the carpet attached to the velcro and it softens and unsticks in the heat.
If you have those carpets, I would recommend sewing the velcro patch to the carpet so it doesn't come loose.
Yep, I’ve been there too. Mom’s new Camaro, ironically I hit my neighbor about 10 miles from our neighborhood. No one was hurt but I have never dreaded a phone call to mom more heh.
And he was arguing that the plaid 0-60 time of 1.99 seconds had an asterisk: with 1-foot rollout
Rollout is when you put your car tires between the two light beams at the drag strip. When the lights change, and the car starts moving and the front tire clears the first line that is the 1-foot rollout location.
What I found interesting
@ 1 foot a tesla will be going 5-6 miles per hour
@ ~100 feet it will hit 60 mph
@ 550 feet... a P100D can probably be going pretty fast.
Kind of a strange video. The crux of it is that Tesla is being misleading, but then it is pointed out that this is how the rest of the industry quotes 0-60 times. Does he really want Tesla to be the only "honest" one?
The problem is that the 0-60 times for the regular model is measured from a standing start, which is the standard for regular cars and which makes it appear worse, and without any visual indication on the main page that the times are measured in different ways.
Only when going on a sub-page do you get an asterisk with a footnote mentioning the difference.
