Tesla Model X: Strange Quirks and Cool Features

I recently made a video or I reviewed the car behind me the Tesla Model X so you watch that and you've probably already seen a lot of other reviews of the Model X but what you probably don't know what you might be more interested in is all of its weird quirks it's strange features it's unusual traits that separate it from a normal car and so here are all the weird quirks of the Tesla Model X now for more of my thoughts on the interesting quarks you can of course click the link below to check out my column on autotrader.com slash oversteer now let's see what weird things the Model X has in store for us here's a question I had how do you start a Tesla Model X there's no starter button or keyhole on the left side of the steering column or on the right side of the steering column well it turns out all you do is get in with the key in your pocket the car is currently off you put your foot on the brake pedal then the door closes and suddenly I'm ready to go and go I will and yes that does mean every time you touch the brake pedal the door closes and brake pedal door and brake pedal door and brake pedal door it's the perfect car for lazy people speaking of the doors oh the doors I could go forever on the doors and I'm not even just talking about the Falcon wing doors in back before we get to those let's start with just how you open the doors there isn't a traditional door handle on this car instead you walk up with the key in your pocket you push the handle and then the door opens right up and you climb inside which seems simple enough except at home where I park I park next to a really tight little wall that's about two feet from my door so I have to open the door and then squeeze up against the car in order to get out which reveals the issue with a vehicle whose door handles you have to push in order to open because you're you're squeezing you're squeezing all of a sudden this actually happened to me earlier today when I was getting out of the car for the first time all of a sudden the door just opens my god what do I do now fortunately the doors are pretty easy to closed from the outside there's no handle or anything down here all you got to do is walk up push a little red button and they closed that's simple but pushing the door handle isn't the only way to open the doors you see this slick little key fob here that it looks like it has no buttons well actually it has five buttons if you tap the little button that looks like a car's window look at that the door opens right up if you tap the rear area of the key fob once again the door opens right up of course it works on the passenger side and it even works for the front trunk tap the little T at the front part of the key fob and hey opens right up first try oh yeah that's right there's a front trunk because there's no front engine in this car all the batteries are under the floor there's a trunk in front just in case all of your stuff doesn't quite fit in the back now once you're inside the car you have a few options for how to close the doors you don't just reach up and pull it close like you do in some goaling cars it's all electronic so there's a little button right here and you push it and down comes the door but the coolest part about opening and closing the doors is the infotainment screen where you can control all of it you want that back door closed well now it's closing you want the other side back door open well done open you want the front truck open done you want the back trunk open done you want the passenger door open done you want the passenger door closed it's closing you want the going going bang closed it's closed [Music] but none of those things are my favorite thing about the doors my favorite thing about the doors is that when you push the little button in the center screen to open the back door the screen actually shows the door opening in real time now here's a big question I have can you drive with the Falcon wing doors open now you shift into drive when the doors are open and these big warnings come up on the center screen and the gauge cluster saying do not drive but okay so the doors are kind of cool and they're fun to play around with but in practical terms there are two things about them that kind of annoy me thing number one is you forget something in the car in a normal car you just open the door and get your thing or shut the door it's easy in this car you forget something oh you've made a big mistake you push the button then you stand here then you wait and you wait door has opened as much as it wants to then you reach in underneath you grab whatever you forgotten you do this and then you find the button push it and wait again and wait again for getting something in the car therefore is like a 15 second mistake and those add up over time it gets kind of annoying the most annoying thing about the doors though is although they're cool the first time you use them when you first get the car and you're really excited about it eventually it sort of becomes regular for you but it never becomes regular for other people if you open the doors in any setting where there's people around you will constantly get mobbed they got to the point yesterday when I was filming this video that I just stopped opening the back doors altogether so I wouldn't have to deal with the questions and the comments and the people coming up asking what it is and how it works and instead I solely was using the front door and the tailgate which opened normally now as you probably know the windshield is huge it goes all the way up to above your head which gives you a giant wide sweeping view while you're driving but how do Sun visors work in a windshield that goes all the way above your head well they're located on your left next to your head and they attach to the rear-view mirror assembly and then you can put them down just like a normal Sun Visor here's a crazy feature when you're driving down the road the center gauge cluster is constantly giving you all sorts of information it's showing you where other objects on the side are it's showing you where other cars are it even can find box trucks it can find bicyclists and it can find empty parking spaces where of course it can park itself it'll show you Lane lines and my personal favorite it even shows when you put your turn signal on one of the most talked-about features of this car is this giant center screen and there's already a lot of stuff online about it but I'll show you some basics my personal favorite thing about it is that you can just pinch and then it displays where you are just like an iPad or any other tablet it's super easy and if you want satellite well you can do satellite and here is maybe my favorite feature of the navigation system you want to figure out how to get somewhere all you got to do tap it navigate and obviously it brings up the directions and it brings up a little map about how to get there but my favorite part is it even shows you what the cars charge percentage will be when you arrive to help combat your aggressive range anxiety head over to the music tab in the giant infotainment system and you're given a lot of different streaming options including my personal favorite Tesla top 20 which gives you all the top songs listened to by other Tesla drivers in their cars another lovely feature of the giant infotainment screen if you touch controls you can bring up the seats and this allows you to move the center seats forward or backwards depending on what you want the thing I like most about this is that the seat actually moves at this exact same rate it's being shown on the screen so the middle seats starting to move and it's like there's a camera inside your car exactly telling you where the seats are going and what current position they're in here's another crazy thing about the giant infotainment system it lets you control virtually every aspect of the car for example if you want the doors to lock when you walk away turn that on unlock on part close all with key fob headlights after exit mirrors Auto tell Auto fold cabin overheat protection smart preconditioning whatever that is you can do all of this stuff no other car lets you choose so many mundane features BMW being German and just choose it for you but in this thing you have the opportunity to really affect every little customizable aspect of this car and one of the coolest things about this car as everybody knows is the autopilot system I won't bore you with all the autopilot details that you've already heard about I'll just tell you some of the basics and the interesting quirks basic number one how to start the autopilot system I assumed there'd be some giant button that says autopilot actually there's no labeled button instead you just pull the cruise control stock twice and then you're on autopilot now two things can happen when you pull that cruise control stock to engage autopilot thing number one autopilot engages and you're at the whim of the Model X thing number two you're on a row that doesn't have visible lane lines so autopilot can't pick it up so you pull the thing and a little warning light comes on it says Auto steer temporarily unavailable and then you have to drive here's the thing that I think is the coolest about autopilot I want to change lanes so what do I do I put the turn signal on the car realizes I want to change lanes and then it makes the lane change for me all I have to do is put the turns and go on and have the lane be clear let me try it again put the turn signal on the car looks is it clear yeah it's clear and then BOOM lane changed so there you go I've reviewed the Model X I've driven it and now in this video I've shown you all of its unusual weird quirks and features and so you have every piece of information about the Model X you could possibly want so there's a little button right here and you push it and you push it there's a little button you just push it instead there's a little button you just pull it [Music]

Channel: Doug DeMuro

Views: 3,701,362

Rating: 4.7517276 out of 5

Keywords: tesla model x, model x, tesla x, tesla, tesla suv, new tesla, falcon wing doors, tesla model s, model s, electric vehicle, tesla quirks, tesla features, tesla options, tesla doors

Id: 03nX6qNxiA4

Length: 10min 54sec (654 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 16 2016

Reddit Comments

[u/Karthinator]

Not gonna lie, that original "lights up at the cool stuff" look on your face that all car guys have is still there in all your videos and that makes you wonderfully relatable.

[u/Nay2003]

u/Doug-DeMuro did you like your 996

[u/bbpresident]

Okay be honest how much time did you spend playing with all the doors. Sweet music by the way!

[u/awwyisss]

Oh my god it's like they actually had someone competent design the UI for the infotainment system unlike almost every other one I've seen.

[u/TODO_getLife]

How come the front boot opens without a key? Is that all the time?

[u/jamievisive]

After the controversy from the other /u/doug-demuro video, I thought this could spark another interesting conversation!

[u/w1ngm4n]

The Interior kills this car for me. Similar priced BMWs, Mercedes, etc. Have much better interiors for the money. I know you are getting full electric driving and other random features, but the interior feels like one out of a $30,000 car not a $100,000+

[u/mango-roller]

I think it would be badass if Tesla made a Model S and/or Model X Superlight edition, without all the fancy electronics or door motors or heavy sound deadening, just the basics and the electric motors. Imagine how friggin mind-numbingly fast they would be.

[u/asdfderp2]

How does the giant center console screen not look like shit when used daily? Is it coated with something that prevents finger prints, smears, and smudges?

Also, i am really curious what resale value will look like in 5-10 years, there is no way all of the electric features will stand the test of time. The model X will probably depreciate like a rock once electric minivans/crossovers become more common.