 So I'm adding this to beginning of the video but recording it after what you're about to see next Which is my friend Brett driving my Tesla. He's never driven a Tesla He's not a fanboy like I am which feel free to call me a fanboy I do like this car a lot, but prior to my purchase I have both test drove and watched a lot of videos on it So this video is an experience from someone who does not work in tech Who's driving the car for the first time this show how easy the car is to drive a couple notes because some of me Comments on this and yes Brett did have his hands off of the steering wheel Mostly to demonstrate the fact that the car does auto steer And I'm aware that I did tell him that you just can roll a knob But yes, I know and we did talk about it just didn't feel like going through the whole conversation of yes If you keep tension on the steering wheel the autopilot will Not bother you about you know telling you to touch a steering wheel So someone will be pointing it out in the comments later Anyways, because we're gonna skip ahead of this part, but just want to let you know yes I'm aware of that. Yes, you should have your hands on the wheel at the Whole time, but yes taking your hands off the wheel. You can do that for a few moments with the autopilot I don't think we ever really clarified that in the video. So I'm clarifying that now and we'll roll into it It's all my And it handles That just got out Files now we're like that and I'm gonna beep that out Yeah All right I want to do something a little different and I figured I've drove the car and now not that my enthusiasm isn't there I like having someone who hasn't watched a bunch of YouTube videos on Tesla Brett's not I haven't yet. There's first time ever getting it Well, he's gotten in the car before the first time behind the driver's seat And so the first you're gonna show you is how he adjusts it So uh Brett's taller than me and it has profiles you can save so go ahead and watch the steering wheel You can fine tune it's not just seat moving the steering wheel goes in and out up and down back and forth That's this is cool. This is the first game of the car. Holy cow I could I I mean I could play Tetris with this thing. Yeah, well, you can there's a game app in there But we'll cover that in a different video. Holy cow. This is crazy So I think I'm comfortable you're comfortable. All right, uh, they're that's it. It's done. He's it saves put your foot on the brake Lift the thing up and that puts it in reverse And the backup camera's on and we go backwards. I think your neighbor's pulling out too. I didn't oh they left I see Okay, this is weird Because there's no sound. There's no I'm gonna turn the ac down as a little so it doesn't make any noise But there's no we're just going Yeah, that's weird and when you let it off it does the brake a little bit, right? Yeah, I don't know how much it does I don't think it regens in reverse. Okay, but you're gonna fill the regen. That's actually what's really cool There's somebody somebody. Yeah, they pulled in over there. That's a wide angle view It's a that's a very crispy HD cam isn't it? Holy cow. So I put on the brake Oh, you don't have to you can just put it in drive Now I'm in drive. Yeah, you can just go from reverse to drive. There's no trans so you just flip the flip the stock and it goes okay I'm still I don't know why that's so fascinating to me that it does that but it does Now I didn't put it in chill mode. So uh, it does still have full power Oh, you have a chill mode on this. It does have a chill mode. Are you kidding me? Yeah, so if you uh, don't want it to be as aggressive you can Chill it out. Well you Know there might be problems here. So it's in full mode. So okay if you're gonna hit it Let me know so the camera doesn't come smack me in the face. Whoa You let off the gas and it just stops the car. Yep. Yeah, that's how you don't really need to use the brakes And you have blinkers on this thing. Yep. It's got blinkers. I didn't hear them go off I know you didn't hit it all the way. Oh you gotta lift. Uh, you'll feel it It's got a click like a normal blinker. Okay. I've got I don't want to break anything I don't think you can in here. Oh my gosh Okay, so that is just uh, you just you really don't need break. Yeah, you can go whichever way. I don't care Okay, I'm gonna pull out a little bit here There we go that here now you hear the blinkers blinkers are working They're weird because they got the little half-click thing and you don't I don't know. I felt the blinkers like you have to really push it down and then it's engaged I feel as though it was a lighter touch with my other blinkers on my Toyota, but I don't know that's a really minor Maybe it wasn't me. Maybe it's just how other blinkers aren't other cars. All right And if you want to punch it, I'm fine with that. Oh, we're on the island right now. So we may not want to punch that. Yeah The we're on Grosial Island and there's the police station. So he's probably wise not to punch it Yeah Not in front of them. Aren't you still like reeling a little bit from a speeding ticket recently? Yes. Okay Yes, yes, I am So we don't want another one of those. We don't want another speeding ticket. Holy cow This is so you so you can oh if you keep it on a little bit Little coast. Yeah, a little bit. But if you let it all the way up, it stops you Yep, so that's the trick with the regenerative braking is that um You don't You is figuring out where the coast doesn't take long the pedal is so sensitive matter of fact, I took my shoes off and uh Because I wanted to see just pressing with my big toe ever so slightly you can creep this car At like I don't know not even a mile an hour like it just barely move it like you can precision move the car Which I thought was really cool. So I can I just a little bit movement. Okay. I'm got it. Okay. Yeah And just very little and it and it and it locks on Now if you want to drive yourself, uh, you press twice down on that So drive myself press press on that button. No down twice. So one two There you go. So what's this doing? Uh, you let go of the wheel and it'll it'll come to a stop for that car in front of you. Okay. I'm The autopilot. Okay. This is and it's staying in the lane staying in the lane How old the bridge? Yes. This will be interesting. Yes. Do this over the bridge and it worked and it works Okay, this bridge is narrow. It's a this is a very this bridge was like horse and carriage days man This is not a new branch and part of it's still wood. Yeah. Um, that's why they're gonna try to condemn the dang thing Um, it's let's see what it does. Oh, yeah. Okay. So okay. I'm gonna trust it Yeah, we're gonna see if it goes over the bridge Now this this bridge is scary now the car will actually beep because things are gonna get so close And that's just nature of this bridge. Hey, there goes chip and his mad max car We're gonna turn the camera around And it's moving me. It's moving me away from the car. Yep. Oh, let's do this What's that? Uh, you have to touch the steering wheel once in a while. Oh, okay Um, and just roll the knob. That's easy way to do it The auto drive wants to make sure you're awake Okay, and making sure you're awake means you touch the little roller just roll it up and down once and you're good I just did Do I need to do it again? No, no, it tells you you'll see it pop up Okay, you just hit the that you get the look you'll see there and it'll bing make some noise I didn't knew the speed limit. Yes. Now, that's that's something I just learned today So the original teslas and I thought this tesla did it too. They read the speed limit Based on seeing it. This is the original model. This does not... What's it gonna do since we didn't tell it to go anywhere at this? It's gonna come to a stop. It's just gonna run on our road. So you may as well take it out autopilot Up once. Yep, and uh, we can turn on a different road. Okay Interesting. So the original, yeah that that auto re-brake, isn't that weird? And then when you come to a stop, you'll come to a stop and tap the brake So the original teslas did read from stop signs But then they got rid of that software. It's called mobile eye and mobile eye's idea was to Man, this is bad. The other glare. I know the glare. Oh, yeah, look at you. I know I'm all in the dark here So the original one Had no problems could read that but they got rid of that software So now they're at the new version and the new version. Oh my god. Hold on. Sorry You just looked up. Yeah, I know that's wild The new version relies on a gps database that needs to be updated because there's some inaccuracies So it looks at the road and says this road should be this speed and we have found some inaccuracies in that There's a lot of people reporting it. It's going to be a software update to fix that. I don't know when Um, but that is that is an issue with the car is it will not always get the speed limit right on side streets It sometimes reads it wrong. Oh man Which I hope I did just call google up because google is super accurate on that Oh, okay, don't you can't just let your foot off if you don't want to stop right if you don't want to stop Wow now how did you go over these tracks come here? They're fine though. These ones are okay These ones aren't bad the ones on Sibley or terrible, right? Should I be naming these streets or doesn't matter. Oh, it doesn't matter. Okay We'll cut some of this out before we get to 4th street. Oh my god We'll do that at 4th street. Hold on. Well, it's 45 here I just wanted to get there quickly and it did Oh my god Matter of fact Let's say we're going around this speed limit right now and you wanted to punch it. So go ahead Well, uh, or is there any yeah, I'm just looking around. Yeah, okay It's hard to hold the camera anchors Uh The camera wants to come hit me in the face. Yeah, I shall I'll warn you next time Well, I had a grip on it. That's not a matter of warning me You know it's because you know with an engine You can hear it and you there's a delay. There's a downshift and that's that's the part I really wanted to get through there's no the power is on demand. It is so immediate And that's what makes it kind of fun Wow I'm just gonna pull go ahead pull in front of them They're not gonna catch me. No, they're not they're not I want the sun out of my face Yeah for a moment. Uh-oh we got It's just traffic. It's telling you how much you have like right now It says you have 247 miles to go right here at any given time You know exactly how far you have to go in the car. Okay, and uh, that's You know, you don't you can change that to percentage the default is miles and miles makes way more sense to me But you can't change it to figure out percentages You don't have to go very I mean you barely have to put on the gas to I mean and it's it just goes And then right here's a good time for auto drive. Oh because this is a boring road And whenever you're on a boring road, this is where the autopilot really is designed for and you have a max 57 right now But you can change that you just roll a roller And you can set it to that now roll it up a few ways and catch up to these cars It'll catch up in front of us, but it won't go faster than them. So Actually if this guy, well, oh, wow. Oh boy. He's swerving. Let's see what he let's see how it reacts to that Um, it it keeps you distant twice. Yes, uh, and that's adjustable. So We can file them closer. We can file one further. Oh, see, I like to follow people closer when they're going slower You yeah, you can tell the car how far you want to follow them So it's it's kind of going over and you see it saw the line. Yep. It's auto Holy crap. It's just auto corrected that the autopilot works really really well I'm gonna dive deeper and maybe another video now until he gets on the other side of that line. Oh, he did When people hang out on the other side of the line, even if it's one tire over it'll do it Now the car accelerated to the speed. Yeah, but it's going to see these cars up here to stop again and go Okay, hold on. Oh, look at the one of these. Oh, no, no tap the brakes Yeah, it doesn't know red lights. It does not know red lights. Oh So you don't want to We would have blown right through that. You would have blown the red light. You don't want to blow the red light Really? So there's if you get the full self-driving update This is not the full self-driving the full self-driving update will have the ability to see red lights Real quick. I know there's a once we get past this corner And I notice that there's nobody sitting at that special spot. Uh-huh. We're gonna punch it So we're gonna punch you to hold on. All right This is the launch onto the uh freeway not yet though. We got to get past the spot So, you know, we got to get up to 55, right? Yeah Let's make sure there's nobody there Is that camera's looking at this? Oh, did we see what do you see nothing? It's you oh my And it handles oh my gosh That just got up two miles now. We're like that and I'm gonna beep that out Oh, yeah I can't talk about how fast we're going because they could still give you a ticket on facebook So I gotta say though, it didn't feel the same as when I was sitting over there and you did it so I uh I went Faster than that on a hellcat on this same piece of road But it feel you feel it the hellcat Yeah, you feel all over your body. Yeah, this is you can't if if I didn't I don't see how fast you're going But if you didn't show the speed of it, we're gonna put it out. Um There's no there's no concept for how fast you're going. Oh, here's a vet They might They might win Oh, yeah, now this is where I call a total boring mode because long freeway trips are boring And uh, yeah, it just stays in lane and drives on the freeway. This is Wonderful, but boring now if you let's say you so with that package you could buy It would would would it change lanes for you and everything right now It won't right now. It won't if you buy the full self-driving right now in july of 2019 It's a $6,000 upgrade and yes the full self-driving will also Turn it up. Oh either one cool, um The full self-driving. Oh, oh, yeah, that's a net of feeling Whoa, it kind of because it saw the line over there. Yeah, it's it'll middle It'll put it in the middle of the two lines. Um, that's a problem when there's sometimes merge lanes Getting the middle lane and that problem goes away. All right twice down So the full self-driving has a different levels of aggression That you can set for how it passes people So how long so if you let's say we had to stop and charge it it'd be like we'd sit down eat lunch and charge the car Yep, that's it. And I have no hands. Yeah, I'm on 75 south. Oh, I guess I gotta hit that What's the one you gotta rolling out rolling up? Okay, it's about every couple minutes. Okay And it shows the car it's on the cars around there shown that we're approaching a big ass truck a big ass truck up here Interesting and so And I can set the max Yeah, if I want to but with that in front of me it's gonna slow down to what it's doing Yep, it's uh, it won't like I said without full self-driving it won't change lanes. So it Gets there Should we have fun with this cabero? Can this Camaro beat us back behind us? Oh, yeah Change lanes before he goes around you. Oh, yeah, he's doing it. So it's just like you missed the opportunity roll up roll off, okay I could take him still. Oh, you could definitely take him that one we would be Yeah, I don't corvette on the freeway. Maybe there's at some point It does not have the takeoff power when you're on the freeway You're good getting up to free speeds, but if you punch it to catch up with them You'll catch up, but it's not going to be the same level of juice. Okay, because right now we're Uh, we'll pull up the energy ratings. Oh, look at that. Yeah. This is was that me Yep, that's when I hit that that miles per hour. We don't want to talk And that's where you slowed it down. So you're putting in 900 watt putting out 900 watt hours to the motors And this is the motors putting almost 300 watt hours back in the battery, right? Oh, okay. I got it Yeah, watch for that blue flashy Okay, so now When we were kind of swerving over because of that merge lane It let me take the wheel. Yep. Absolutely. Just grab the wheel. You take it over so you're fine Okay No problems like it's not an issue It's interesting and it's showing your all Yep Now if I keep my hands on the wheels, is it gonna know? Um, there's yeah. Oh, okay. Your hands are there and then I want to ask you Okay, I just roll the rollers because I keep my hands on my side because it seems more comfortable I know it says keep them on the wheel Yeah, well you could be texting right now texting and driving. Yeah, if you're texting Legally Well, no, no, no, they still don't understand the car Yeah, that this is just I have my it's like cruise control and and This is incredible. This is weird. Yeah, and if the truck gets out of our way It'll accelerate and go around them because you have the back side. So what if I put the blinker on? Will it move me over? No with full self-driving That's all you have to do to tell it to move you over to the blinker and it goes Oh, you want to be over there? I'll figure it out for you and it tells you and it goes through a process I might buy the full self-driving. I'm undecided on it right now. It's on my list, but it's also $6,000 Yeah, and roll the roller But it one of those things that so if I do the blinker, I gotta take it. Yep When you do the blinker, it gives you control. You don't have to tell it It just putting the blinker on takes it out. I see red lights up there It's not after me to the enemy Someone else. Oh, it went back into mode. No, it didn't tap down twice. It's not in mode Why does the gas? It does it stays in cruise control Oh, so it does have cruise control separate from autopilot Oh, okay, so you one down is cruise control But you steer Oh, that's nice I tell you setting it on a roller It makes so much sense like my other car had to do the little ups and downs and it just and the push buttons and things like that And this just does it. Yeah, why not put a roller like it's like a game pad I just roll it up a little bit and I'm setting a speed It's like the the blackberry roller. Yeah, it's like the blackberry roller You're showing your age. Yeah, I love the blackberry. Hope I got a roll again. Yeah Interesting and so now it's just kind of an even keel. We put a little punch there and it shows that Yeah, and uh, what you can do over time when you're driving Because you have your range and you have your projected range. Okay, the battery estimates 236 miles the projected range 246 miles based on our last 30 miles Okay, 221 or 237 so you're going to get different numbers on this But it's going to be based on your energy consumption matter of fact The numbers keep getting bigger if you're on a big downhill because it can't predict your terrain That's going to be a neat feature if they could but it doesn't predict terrain So that topographical mapping in here up hills are going to use more energy downhill is going to use less energy That is This is wow Hope we're going to tap again Yeah, it makes sure you're awake. I I do so I'm just trying to figure out though It's just a software upgrade. Yeah And it knows it's reading those lines Yep, it reads the lines. I mean it the autopilot performs amazingly well on the freeway I'm very very comfortable down the freeway on two lane highways. It's not bad On all the weird streets that we have in Detroit and all the missing lines It does an okay job Well, I just say okay does a good job for how bad the roads are but the The people on the roads really create a lot of aggravation Because as they kind of wander over the line the car goes, I think they're in your lane So I'm slowing down. I'm like, they're not in my lane. They're texting and kind of in my lane, right, right? But it's easy enough to take control of the car and get around those people And actually I just punch it around I'm like I need to be in front of this person because behind me I worry about the most of course When they're behind you there's more worry them about Rerending you then whatever we can't stop them. Yeah, I can't stop them And and literally this thing won't really let you hit something will it? No, it's got auto braking Auto collision avoidance. So there's a lot of safety features in there. You can look up the ntsb videos They're available on youtube that show you what the collision avoidance looks like on this car They roll a bicycle out in front of it on the test track and they show a lot of scenarios So the tesla will auto brake it has saved a lot of people from accidents because they're like people don't pay attention And uh rear on the car right to my knowledge and everything I've read and tesla's been very clear about this There's not been any accidents while on autopilot when Let's say this like went on autopilot on a freeway for example And the reason I bring it up like this because yes autopilot If you were doing something stupid like you set it to autopilot on a surface street And you know it does not read stop signs and it does not read a Red light and you hit someone while on autopilot because you blew the light That's not really the car's fault. You weren't supposed to be doing it right, right? Um, but The thing like there was a person just yesterday in a severe accident I believe one person was killed and the girl was driving a tesla now one of the things is they asked Was it an autopilot? The police says we don't know yet But one of the things about it you cannot on surface streets go more than five over the speed limit It won't let you it won't let you but she was doing 30 over so right away that tells me It wasn't on auto. I really doubt it was an autopilot and we don't know for sure what it does here Oh curves. Yeah Oh, look at that curves are weird because you want to put your hand over the steering wheel the first couple times you drive it Oh, I let it right off I'm trusting it. Yeah, you told me to trust it. So I'm trusting we trusted it over a bridge Yeah, but that was straight and no big truck next to us. Yeah Yeah, it stays in lane and it noticed how far away that person is from us Oh gotta do that still yeah eventually, um You you kind of get used to doing that Well, I noticed when I had my hands on it though It doesn't make me do it right so I knows that I'm kind of moving the steering wheel You if you keep your hands on it You have a little bit of effort in your hands because you're actually It inadvertently you're going to fight against it a little bit right. It doesn't seem to mind at all Interesting, but it's a smooth riding car. Yes, it is. It's got the quality feel I have I'm going to say not quite as quiet another turn here But I'm gonna say it ranks up there with my my jaguar is probably the quietest car I've owned right You close the door and the world disappears. Correct. Yes, not quite as much as my jag was Don't know. It was an older xj jag number. I don't know though. I got it was anyways older model jag was still the same concept We're road quiet. I've owned a BMWs. I've owned some few other vehicles This has a more this has more of the feel that the BMW is with this tight steering the performance I would say probably I had I had three series. I'd say it does feel a lot like that so I'm it's very interesting because Now with with this what's this roller do when it's in driving that's a that roller is all for audio So that controls the sound system. Okay, and this one controls the Up and down for the speed limit. Okay And like it's just a slight little jag. Yeah, so even so it does it It's using cameras and all the use what kind of lidar lidar technology. So it is What happens when they're doing construction on a road? Okay, and they split the lines And sometimes they don't get some rid of the old lines all the way it has problems there That's where you're gonna have some auto-drive problems that I've noticed that if you split the lines it Yeah, it'll I'll have a little show pick it on there, but oh well it works pretty good I mean like I said, what do you think you're driving a Tesla? We'll wrap the video up. This is fantastic Oh, what was that? You turned too hard. You took it out of auto stand. Oh, so I'm in auto So how do I take it out of um Just up once and you'll take it out of uh, uh everything. Oh, and that's me and there you go Now I'm driving. Yep. All right. We'll wrap the video up here, but that's Holy cow That's all I can say I can see a lot more, but I'm not going to use those words So, uh, yeah, I just wanted to give an idea what someone who's never drove a tesla How hard is that braking to get used to with the pedal? Um, Actually, I I forgot about it just now when we went off and then it started slowing me down I just got right back on it. It's easy to get used to so here's Brett has now drove a tesla Based on the time I hit record 26 minutes ago It's first driving a tesla. No problem. Wow They're easy cars to drive Not hard to get used to including all the features and you don't feel too lost with all this gadgetry And you're not a that's not a tech guy by the way either. So I mean he likes gadgets But he doesn't work in tech like I do. Yeah, I did this would take me some time to get used to Yeah, but it's not hard. No. No. No gosh. No. No. Yeah I you just you it doesn't know where all the buttons are but he knows enough to get in and drive So you can borrow this car. Yeah, yo, I could call this car and drive it anytime. Yeah All right, we'll wrap this up here. Um, I do have An offer code if you are buying a tesla you want to get a thousand free miles Charging and we both get a thousand free miles for the deal You can sign the offer below But let me know what questions or comments you have or more things you want to learn about the tesla So i'm gonna be doing you know a handful of different videos on it and for those of you know me from the tech channel I don't worry. I'm still making lots of tech videos, but this is just the current gadget. I gotta play with you It's a new thing. It's a new thing. I gotta play with it. All right. Thanks