{"id":10112,"date":"2018-05-07T19:43:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T03:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/?p=10112"},"modified":"2018-05-07T20:29:12","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T04:29:12","slug":"why-my-tesla-m3-feels-like-my-first-iphone-and-my-m3day-plus-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2018\/05\/why-my-tesla-m3-feels-like-my-first-iphone-and-my-m3day-plus-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Why my Tesla M3 feels like my first iPhone and my M3day plus 30."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Long long time ago, I got the new iPhone.\u00a0 I was one of the first.\u00a0 So I used it for a week and thought, its nice, then discovered jail breaking!\u00a0 Oh man, Apple fan boy overnight.\u00a0 My favorite thing was to show off what this amazing new phone could do when I went to events\/parties.\u00a0 If I had a dollar for every person I convinced to get an iPhone…\u00a0 Even more so when I got the 3G.\u00a0 Then the iPhone really became what it is today.\u00a0 And now I have the Tesla M3 and it feels like those days.<\/p>\n

I remember standing in line to put my $1000 down on a car I have not even seen.\u00a0 The excitement was like the first release of the iPhone, but without the wait.\u00a0 So jump 2 years and my M3day was last month.\u00a0 I love the car, although I wish the ride was smoother but I could fix that by changing the shocks… and I wont.\u00a0 However, what I have found is that I love showing people the car.\u00a0 I get excited talking about the fact that there is no dash.\u00a0 LOVE showing the self driving.\u00a0 The new electric motor the M3 uses, the smooth acceleration, how it looks, even the cool way the air vents operate.<\/p>\n

Now there are things I would love to change now that I’m 30 days into my M3day.\u00a0 I would really like to edit the UI.\u00a0 Perhaps one day they will provide an API where I can code up my own via markup or directly in c++ or however they do it.\u00a0 I’m also waiting for the self drive to improve and expand.\u00a0 For example, the system should be smart enough to lean into a turn.\u00a0 Right now the car still tried to keep the center line in a turn and ends up hugging the far line a bit too much for me and the unlucky person driving next to me.\u00a0 This should be a simple algorithm fix.\u00a0 (I work in computer vision for VR for a living BTW).\u00a0 These details not withstanding, watching peoples eye light up as I let the car drive itself is so much fun.\u00a0 I also love when people first sit in the car.\u00a0 Its one thing to tell people, ‘no instrument panel, just a screen’ and then having people actually sit in it.\u00a0 \u00a0The comment I get all the time is, ‘ah so this is the future’.\u00a0 And yes, I think it is.\u00a0 \u00a0Just like when I first got the iPhone and jailbroke it, I could see, this is where all phones are going to go.\u00a0 \u00a0The M3 is the first car in my mind that will signal, this is where we are going and I love sharing that.<\/p>\n

BTW, why not say this about the S?\u00a0 I drove the S a few times and really loved it, and it felt like really great electric car, but because of the dash, I still felt like I was in a normal car.\u00a0 Also, the car felt too big, too many ‘features’ that were not really necessary, etc.\u00a0 In other words, like the first iPhone.\u00a0 Really cool, but not quite there yet. The dash-less experience with the M3, smaller more practical, only things on the car is what is needed on the car felt like a much cleaner design and more inline to what I would want in a car.\u00a0 So like my iPhone 3G, yes the 2G gave me the first glips of the future, but the 3G is where I really experienced it, and so with the M3.<\/p>\n

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