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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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You had feet? In my day we had to crawl around on stumps and were damned glad to have them.
We’ve owned three MT Miatas.
Newest is a 2015. Minimal annoying tech.
Pure 365 driving fun in Florida.
All good stuff, but how is your RT?
A few years back, an evil car got me on my bicycle, and I awoke two weeks later in the ICU...
My driver’s license was medically suspended.
Being around cars a bit, I knew my RT might need some help.
So I practiced online and aced the test.
demanded? LOLOL!!
Corridor? We would have loved to have lived in a corridor. We lived in a rolled up newspaper on top of a rubbish tip!
RT was great on the tree at the track
37 years w/o citation
40 years w/o wreck caused by me... but I can’t control others.
And driving defensively like on the morotcycle
Never wrap your thumb around the starter crank.
“A Miata with a manual transmission. Six speed would be best.”
You can still get exactly that. Mine has lane departure warning, anti skid control, and all that. But you can turn any or all of it off, and then the car is completely in the driver’s control. As a sports car should be.
—”I can safely drive a 1968 VW bug while tuning the radio, using a blinker, during the rain, on the highway and parallel park it in Manhattan while smoking a cigarette”
All of that and use the standard gym towel, to defrost the inside of the windows...
(Yes, some say an old T-shirt is better.)
“We’ve owned three MT Miatas.
Newest is a 2015. “
You have an NC? Ahoy, Captain!
Mine is a second gen with a five speed. That sixth gear would be good on the highway.
—”runs on diesel, so I can convert it to run on vegetable oil.”
Same friend in #31 home-brewed his own diesel for warm-weather use only. (Not advised for cold weather)
Smelled slightly of french fries as he started it.
He used to get used restaurant fryer oil cheap; those days are gone.
Well they usually had a friend or butler crank it so they had their own “starters” then...
—”And if the trial is on the East or West Coast the plantiff will prevail.”
A safe bet.
Rich Rebuilds, a well-known Tesla rebuilder, goes to china and drives FSD on busy Chinese streets.
A good test.
And survived!
https://youtu.be/a46Xp8FtWOg?si=QN0Y0N56NBrBeKg8
Check out the original.Cleese,Chapman *and* Marty Feldman!
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