It's always nice to see fellow Telsa owners while commuting to/from work. At least at the moment near where I live you do not often see another Model S on the road. Tonight I happened to share about 5 miles of driving with one. It was also funny that its licence plate starts with my first name lol. Pretty random but nice. While waiting for the traffic light we greeted each other with a thumb up, and the guy actually showed off a no-hands gesture.
A couple days ago while driving in Bronx another Model S driver cut in front of me just to get my attention before pulling beside me to say hi.
This kind of hospitality is amazing, especially compared with the everyday a**hole drivers we all have seen too many of.
I guess part of the reason is that we still consider ourselves 'unique' in some sense, but the novelty will wear off eventually when electric vehicles become the main stream (though not everybody thinks it will ever happen), will the hospitality persist? :smile:
1. From childhood I was super polite, always letting others proceed, too long into adulthood. Now, it's my turn, so I'm through with that prior portion of my life, and I always go first instead. I'm generically what people call an A-hole so to speak, including how I drive, and I'm completely entitled. It gets worse around nanny-staters who block me from going a reasonable pace, and in those instances, I speed up to get past them at any cost. I'm at my most relaxed and slowest when there's no bad drivers, nanny-staters, excessive or slow traffic on the road, or road diet of any kind (including slow lights). (I hope cars drive themselves someday so I won't have to deal with any of this at all.)
2. I respect Teslas so much that I do not do this to them. I give them almost as much room on the road as myself. I go out of my way to make them feel good. They are the only car I respect in this way, besides the occasional other nice vehicles. This is not so uncommon: I work in Palo Alto and live in Aptos, and try to do as much shopping as I can in nice areas like Los Gatos. They are definitely not worn out in my mind yet, and have a long way to go before that happens. From my experience with Volvo and Mercedes, I'm guessing a good 4-6 years give or take, possibly much longer, possibly even many times longer.
3. The whole PURPOSE of Tesla is to make EVs so commonplace that everybody has them, meaning, everyone. So, the worst of the worst will have them too. Well, not them, because pure evil people will still use blood-oil cars. But everyone else will have EVs, including A-holes, inattentive drivers, stopped drivers who should be going, people who shouldn't be driving, really awesome and great people and drivers, etc..
4. Therefore, I conclude, that we are in a very nice honeymoon period, which will be followed with marriage, then continue with children, and eventually turn into the golden years when everyone else is taking care of us (fully autonomous autopilot). The nicest parts will come and go and come again. In a handful of years you will definitely see very impolite A-hole Tesla drivers.
