Most people will spend an hour a day or more, 7 days a week in their car. Even at a perfect 60 mph average, you’re looking at over 150 hours for every 10,000 miles. Maybe an hour or so of training to get you familiar with the car before you’re on the road learning how these features work for the first time and potentially endangering others isn’t a half-bad idea?
Makes sense. It how it was for our Honda purchase. They had a guy who’s job it was to sit with you in the car for 40 minutes or so, and he went through every single function of the entire car.
Never said it was a bad idea. Just wanted to point out that even without any kind of vehicle-specific training, they do still come with a means for the buyers to educate themselves.
Regardless though, most cars aren’t that much different from one another. The skills you learn in driver’s education should be sufficient for most to operate the vehicle with minimal time spent familiarizing yourself with any particular vehicle. For whatever reason, Tesla felt the need to forego decades of standardization and do their own thing. You can see how well that’s working out with their FSD disasters, people getting trapped inside them, and just the overall shoddy craftsmanship.
Even if I had never read the manual of my car. If I get a warning - as this thread suggests should, it have been there - I make sure to check the manual then and probably drive to a garage.
Brand-new cars do come with owner’s manuals, just like damn near everything else one buys. I suspect most buyers never read them though.
Most people will spend an hour a day or more, 7 days a week in their car. Even at a perfect 60 mph average, you’re looking at over 150 hours for every 10,000 miles. Maybe an hour or so of training to get you familiar with the car before you’re on the road learning how these features work for the first time and potentially endangering others isn’t a half-bad idea?
Makes sense. It how it was for our Honda purchase. They had a guy who’s job it was to sit with you in the car for 40 minutes or so, and he went through every single function of the entire car.
Never said it was a bad idea. Just wanted to point out that even without any kind of vehicle-specific training, they do still come with a means for the buyers to educate themselves.
Regardless though, most cars aren’t that much different from one another. The skills you learn in driver’s education should be sufficient for most to operate the vehicle with minimal time spent familiarizing yourself with any particular vehicle. For whatever reason, Tesla felt the need to forego decades of standardization and do their own thing. You can see how well that’s working out with their FSD disasters, people getting trapped inside them, and just the overall shoddy craftsmanship.
Even if I had never read the manual of my car. If I get a warning - as this thread suggests should, it have been there - I make sure to check the manual then and probably drive to a garage.