The exhiliration of instant torque more than makes up for the lack of sound. Yes, a silent car thereotically sounds like an appliance ;), but it really doesn't feel like a golf cart when you are inside.
Good catch - Alpine, NJ. Having been on the east coast for 8 years, I still know the Bay Area much better and NJ, CT, and upstate NY are all a blur to me ;)
I can get the doors to open on the first try now, but the frunk is still hit or miss. That's the one thing I forgot to mention - the whole key-as-a-toy-car idea is silly, because if you have kids in the house, you'll find them playing with it even if you left it on top of the fridge.
I know... Shouldn't there be some spray for this that repels the salt?
In my first month with the Model S, my wife Jennie and our two kids have done what most car-owning NYC residents typically do: taken trips to New Jersey and Connecticut, parked in two feet of snow and slush and in various garages, driven it up and down between midtown, Chelsea Piers, and downtown on the streets and the west side highway, and, of course, got a ticket with the model box saying the predictable "Other". All in, we've put a bit over 1k miles on it. So as the hubbub about the supercharger network, promulgated by the guy who decided not to charge the car fully (whether out of naivete or fame-seeking), rages on, and while the blog that shall remain nameless keeps telling everyone that the doors and the screen stall (which they have never done for this car in almost 30 days), here's what the experience is really like:
Hey, that's my ride...
An appropriate first post on Kinja - here's to those that challenge us.
Ten years ago, my best friend - someone who achieved a relative degree of notoriety in the technology world - took his own life at the age of 25. Exactly why he or #AaronSw did it is beside the point. What I wanted to say today is that kids that choose to create technology are often drawn by the ability to make…
