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Massive loop hole (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 36 points 2 months ago (9 children)

On some Teslas, even the gear selection is done through the touchscreen. Fucking awful design.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago* (5 children)

    No. Way.

    How is that legal?

    Oh wait, it's not a manual of course...

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah, you aren't changing gears while driving, you're switching between forward and backward, so you're already stationary.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago*

    Unrelated, but my elderly uncle drove a minivan with an automatic transmission that he drove like it was a manual. He would start from every stop by putting the shifter into "1" and then "2" and then "D" and then back to "N" when he stopped. He was a former Navy pilot (A-1 Skyraiders) and I guess he just couldn't accept the loss of control that goes with an automatic. It doesn't seem like this could possibly have been good for the transmission, but I dunno.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    there was a wife of a billionaire who drowned by accidentally driving a tesla into a pond on her estate, because of the touchscreen gearshifting problem. I'll try and look up a source of anyone wants it

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