Old habits die hard...
For safety reasons, it has been habitual for me to mash the brake pedal before doing anything else behind the wheel.
In model 3, this turns the car on, flips to the driver setting from easy entry if you have that set, lights up the christmas tree widget icons along the top of the left side panel, and sounds a series of mystery chimes (because all the lights are flashing, who knows what the heck that sound is for?). This is not THAT different from how most cars start up, so I didn’t think much of it.
For some reason today, I elected not to buckle my seat belt when driving from my mailbox to my front door and discovered that the chimes are simply a seat belt warning (they sounded a second time with only the seatbelt icon on).
So, I thought, let’s try something novel and I buckled my seat belt BEFORE stepping on the brake pedal, and I got beautiful silence. No need to nag about a task you’ve already completed.
Which now has me wondering if that would have worked in my old car...
For safety reasons, it has been habitual for me to mash the brake pedal before doing anything else behind the wheel.
In model 3, this turns the car on, flips to the driver setting from easy entry if you have that set, lights up the christmas tree widget icons along the top of the left side panel, and sounds a series of mystery chimes (because all the lights are flashing, who knows what the heck that sound is for?). This is not THAT different from how most cars start up, so I didn’t think much of it.
For some reason today, I elected not to buckle my seat belt when driving from my mailbox to my front door and discovered that the chimes are simply a seat belt warning (they sounded a second time with only the seatbelt icon on).
So, I thought, let’s try something novel and I buckled my seat belt BEFORE stepping on the brake pedal, and I got beautiful silence. No need to nag about a task you’ve already completed.
Which now has me wondering if that would have worked in my old car...