Comment on I rented a Tesla for a month. It was a steep learning curve
Lintson@aussie.zone 1 year agoMy dad and I once sat in the cabin of a push to start vehicle for 20 whole minutes before admitting defeat and walking back to the rental office and asking how to start the car. If an action is completely alien/illogical to you, it’s not a matter of being bad at adapting, you’ll just never get it.
In this case we needed 3 actions done correctly: fob in dock, brake pressed down (even though its in park) and hold the start button down for longer than 2 secs. It was the last step that really screwed us around
Mine needs you to press the start button with a foot on the brake, but if you press either pedal, the start button, or attempt to shift to drive you get a message on the screen telling you what you’re supposed to do. So it’s simple to figure out by just trying something.
Holding the start button is weird.
No1@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Bruh, I’ve driven a manual pretty much all my life. Always start it in neutral.
Got a manual in the US -same make/model i had in Aus- and couldn’t start it.
Had to depress the clutch. Gear/neutral didn’t matter. No ckutch in, no ignition.
The bloke looked at me like I was an idiot and asked if I’d driven a stick before. Meanwhile I’m looking at him like he’s an idiot wondering why neutral means you need to hit the clutch.
Somehow I still ended up feeling embarrassed. But he must have wondered how I got out of the parking lot without stalling or -with the accent- without kangaroo hopping down the street
Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Clutch down is how I’ve always started manuals. I’m not even sure if my current car works the way you were used to or the way your American car worked, but tbh I suspect the latter. It’s not an American car, either.