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Hope they disable some of the Tesla Easter eggs. Having the road diagram turn into a rainbow and Don’t Fear The Reaper blast out of the speakers because you hit an on screen button four times is pretty unnerving if you’re familiar with the car and really wouldn’t be what you want having just got off a long flight and driving in a city you don’t know in a car you don’t know.

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Is this an actual easter egg? Is there a list somewhere documenting these?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Easter_eggs_in_Tesla_p...

Haha fuck yeah! A car made by the guys who have the kind of humor past computers were built by. I fucking love it.

No wonder they’re beating everyone else at this game. These guys rule!

christ, I want a cool electric car more and more. but reading stuff like this all the time is just re-enforcing my decision to leave Tesla off that list of potentials.

A car is a tool I use to get my family around from point A to B SAFELY. Its also a fairly significant chunk of debt, and I want it to last a long time and behave EXACTLY the way I expect it to. Every day.

Tesla really doesn't fit that bill atm

Thus far there isn’t really a no-nonsense EV with limited tech and phsyical buttons for everything. Once you go the big center screen route you are kind of locking yourself into an infotainment computer that will be obsolete long before the cars powertrain is and an interface that will change over time like a modern smartphone.

Once you know those truths, Tesla isn’t a bad choice as their computers are at least partially upgradeable and the interface changes have been decent from my perspective (although this is hugely subjective).

Bollinger B1 maybe, though it's still in preorder.

Tesla is the safest car on the road. In fact, the three safest cars on the road.

By metrics that Tesla uses. IIHS, NHTSA, other entities have other thoughts.

He was talking about Tesla having lowest probability of injury in a crash, as measured by NHTSA (and every other agency that does crash testing).

A good chunk of this is that Tesla's are designed very carefully for these exact tests.

I'm willing to bet performance would drop substantially if you modified the test even a little - for example changing the collision angle from 0 degrees to 5 degrees.

Other car manufacturers also 'design for the test', but less so I suspect.

> A good chunk of this is that Tesla's are designed very carefully for these exact tests.

Any source for this claim?

Its the opposite. Tesla actually specifically does not design for Tests only.

They literally have data and video of every crash and update their cars to deal with real world crashes.

See for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KR2N_Q8ep8

Teardown of the cars have reviled that they are very sturdy built, maybe even overbuilt at points.

What does an easter egg in a Tesla has to do with safety or longevity of the vehicle?

Nothing at all.

I've driven a Tesla for over a year now, and this is the first time I've even heard about it, let alone experienced it.

You're right, what could an unexpected loud noise or visual disturbance in a car possibly do to reduce safety of a distracted driver?

The easter eggs are intentionally difficult to trigger. It's impossible for one to be "unexpectedly" activated.

I see this sort of “concern trolling” so often around Tesla and I just shake my head. Really, an easter egg inspires this reaction? I’m sorry, I don’t believe it.

(I have no Tesla investments or products.)

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