Posted on 06/14/2026 9:29:28 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Two years ago, I rented a Tesla Model 3 for 1 day in order to drive it for the first time in my life and make a Tesla review from the perspective of a petrolhead. I ended up actually enjoying the driving itself, I hated the user interface, the buttonless screens and probably most of all I hated the fact that the car was constantly beeping. When I went over the speed limit, when I changed lanes without signaling, when I got too close to the edge of the road and so on. After fiddling with the screen and the menus I managed to turn off almost all the beeping sources except one. There was one beep that stayed until the end and I couldn’t do anything about it. The car would beep randomly from time to time without any associated message or warning on the screen. I returned the car without figuring out what it is. ... I was foolish enough to believe that’s a Tesla-only thing because Tesla’s are obnoxious tech-obsessed cars for tech-obsessed people who actually hate driving. I thought Toyota is an old-school car brand and there’s no way it would beep and annoy me like that. Well, I was wrong, beeping and backseat driving is not a Tesla thing, it’s now an industry thing
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If he can scale up for 2027, he could get rich.
I am an automotive Luddite.
The first anti-theft device....LOL!
Drunk and old people drove cars when there were only manual transmissions and standard key ignitions.
“we are moving to full self driving cars and there is very little reason to stop it.”
As someone who is pushing 80, I welcome this technology with the hope that the bugs can be identified and remedied soon.
But will my cars now PUH-LEEEEEZE stop beeping(?!?!?), and locking me out for no reason?
In nowhere near the frequency with automatic transmissions.
Many single-seater race cars still use “hand crank starting”. They put a big crank into the flywheel, press a button to fire up the motor and it spins the crankshaft until the engine starts. Indy cars still start this way, as do F1 cars.
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