Took a ride in a Tesla 3 yesterday from a co-worker. She has quite a few upgrades given how much she paid for it.
Before we went downstairs she started the A/C from her phone app. Then, she had the car pull itself out of the space to demonstrate what it can do if someone parks too closely to open the door.
The car has a blank dashboard - no buttons, gauges, controls, nothing except a center mounted touch screen that controls everything the car does except for driver contols, when in manual. She waited in our parking lot until the coast was clear, then accelerated fully for a couple of seconds at most, enough I was lightheaded and trying to put my face back into proper order. The tires were silent, no burnout.
Off we went, and came to a 270 merge. She decided this a good opportunity to demonstrate the autopilot, so she tapped the screen command and took her hands off the wheel. Given there was a lot of lunchtime traffic and we had only a narrow opening to merge, I wasn't confident but the car accelerated and merged assertively into the lane, before admonishing her to keep her hands on the wheel. It maintained a modest distance to the car in front, not enough room to tempt other cars to choose that slot to merge into over other ones.
Back on manual control - taking her foot off the accelerator caused a sharp speed reduction from engine "regenerative" braking. Most of the time you'd scarcely touch the brakes in this car.
Besides being a rocket, it was very quiet as one would expect. The fit and finish seemed excellent, very solid and well built. The center of gravity of course is very low with batteries just above the road, and seating was spacious front and back. The roof was all heavily tinted glass, except for a center beam.
She said she got a software update recently (Tesla just pushes these out) and it had increased her range about 40 miles, I'm going to recall attempt here - from say 340 to 380 or so. We have 4 free power sources at work, and currently have 8 cars using them including a Ford and Nissan, but mostly Teslas.
When we returned, she pulled just past an open spot, very close to the other cars, and hit a button for it to park itself. It turned hard as it backed in, then pulled forward when it ran out of room (she didn't leave it a possible angle) and backed in again. However, it was not successful on this attempt and had to pull forward a bit again before backing in correctly. I would have had it parked without the final iteration, about the only flaw I detected in my short trip.
Beast of a car, might see what they have available in 2 more years when I hit 200k on my VW CC and start jonesing.
