>Broder reached out to Tesla on multiple occasions during the trip asking for advice when oddities happened
That's what struck me the most, relative to how little attention it got. How many other people would have needed to call into a car company's customer service (and that many times!) to finish a simple test drive?
"Mommy, should I charge it all the way at the supercharger station?"
"Mommy it only reads 32 miles, will it last twice that?"
There are a hundred people more competent and deserving of such an opportunity than someone who doesn't even know the current state of vehicle logging tech.