I have a huge belief that having autopilot has saved me from getting potential speeding tickets for the past 4 years. It makes it much easier to be a safe / responsible driver because you take the human error / emotion out of the driving. Before the Tesla Model 3, I drove gas cars and it is so easy to get a speeding ticket if you don't check yourself. Also gas cars feel more enjoyable to drive at around 80 mph, which increase your chances of a speeding ticket even if you didn't intend to speed.
I went from OC / LA to Lake Tahoe with my friend and we took turns driving the Model 3. He is more of a fan of gas based race cars and has little interest in electric cars. He owns a 2014 Porsche Cayenne. He was driving alright most of the way, but the autopilot got disabled so he just went back to driving normally having no desire to pull over to turn it back on. We were cruising along the interstate in the middle of nowhere and suddenly there is a cop car that driving kind of slow for a 70 mph zone. I told him "that's a cop car" and he too also knew it was there. I felt I just saved his ass pointing out the obvious cop car, but instead he passes this cop car topping at 80 mph until the cop car turned the lights on to pull him over.
After being pulled over waiting like 5 minutes for the cop to check his license and my car's registration / insurance, he lets my friend off with a written warning. Telling him "why would you speed past a cop car at 80 mph".
He was in a situation where he was totally aware of the cop car but felt like passing a slow driving cop car at 80 mph was a best option then slowing down and staying behind the cop car. Because the cop isn't king of the road and we can drive on the road how we like.. He insisted this cop would have still pulled us over if he were to slow down and stay behind him because that would seem sketchy. And kept arguing that no cop can give a speeding ticket going 80 mph in a 70 mph zone because he will hire a ticket fighting lawyer and win and pay less money. I could have sold out my friend and told this cop that my friend likes playing Grand Turismo and the reason he passed you is because you were driving too slow and said no cop can give a speeding ticket doing 80 mph in a 70 mph zone.
When I drove after him, I put the car in autopilot and set the car to drive the legal speed limit posts on the screen. And I had cops car pass me by and I didn't get pulled over because the autopilot was doing all the work and going the set speed the entire time. The autopilot won't urge for a "Need for Speed" moment and can stay at the stated speed limit you set for it. I told my friend to use autopilot, but he had no interest to re-activate it after it got disabled because he only wants to drive as if he were playing Need for Speed. We both had cop cars driving next to us in both our drives but he is the one who got pulled over because he insists no cop can ever give you a ticket for doing 80 mph in a 70 mph zone. And he can easily win it if he pays a traffic ticket lawyer to fight it.
But I think autopilot is worth the extra cost because it can prevent speeding tickets. Help keep insurance low because you won't have to deal with cops pulling you over.
I went from OC / LA to Lake Tahoe with my friend and we took turns driving the Model 3. He is more of a fan of gas based race cars and has little interest in electric cars. He owns a 2014 Porsche Cayenne. He was driving alright most of the way, but the autopilot got disabled so he just went back to driving normally having no desire to pull over to turn it back on. We were cruising along the interstate in the middle of nowhere and suddenly there is a cop car that driving kind of slow for a 70 mph zone. I told him "that's a cop car" and he too also knew it was there. I felt I just saved his ass pointing out the obvious cop car, but instead he passes this cop car topping at 80 mph until the cop car turned the lights on to pull him over.
After being pulled over waiting like 5 minutes for the cop to check his license and my car's registration / insurance, he lets my friend off with a written warning. Telling him "why would you speed past a cop car at 80 mph".
He was in a situation where he was totally aware of the cop car but felt like passing a slow driving cop car at 80 mph was a best option then slowing down and staying behind the cop car. Because the cop isn't king of the road and we can drive on the road how we like.. He insisted this cop would have still pulled us over if he were to slow down and stay behind him because that would seem sketchy. And kept arguing that no cop can give a speeding ticket going 80 mph in a 70 mph zone because he will hire a ticket fighting lawyer and win and pay less money. I could have sold out my friend and told this cop that my friend likes playing Grand Turismo and the reason he passed you is because you were driving too slow and said no cop can give a speeding ticket doing 80 mph in a 70 mph zone.
When I drove after him, I put the car in autopilot and set the car to drive the legal speed limit posts on the screen. And I had cops car pass me by and I didn't get pulled over because the autopilot was doing all the work and going the set speed the entire time. The autopilot won't urge for a "Need for Speed" moment and can stay at the stated speed limit you set for it. I told my friend to use autopilot, but he had no interest to re-activate it after it got disabled because he only wants to drive as if he were playing Need for Speed. We both had cop cars driving next to us in both our drives but he is the one who got pulled over because he insists no cop can ever give you a ticket for doing 80 mph in a 70 mph zone. And he can easily win it if he pays a traffic ticket lawyer to fight it.
But I think autopilot is worth the extra cost because it can prevent speeding tickets. Help keep insurance low because you won't have to deal with cops pulling you over.
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