If you live in the UK and have ordered a Tesla Model S or Model X that has not yet been delivered to you, expect the worst, or almost.
Not only could the vehicle have a left-hand drive, as in France for example, instead of the traditional right-hand drive used in the United Kingdom, but in addition, the “compensation” is done using a tool … very curious.
A joke signed Elon Musk?
If you are planning to rent a Tesla in the UK or if you are reading Clubic from one of these countries as a new owner of a brand vehicle, you may be lucky enough to receive the firm’s latest innovation as a surprise. And this does not concern the bodywork or the motorization of the Tesla Model S and Model X. Indeed, many people who have ordered, sometimes for (very) long months, one of these two Tesla models, have had the (unpleasant) surprise to see their future vehicle slipping through their fingers. In fact, the American firm has simply decided to stop supplying Tesla Model S and Model X in the United Kingdom equipped with steering wheels on the right. The company has therefore canceled the orders still concerned by vehicles no longer meeting its objectives.
If you’ve ever traveled through pudding country, you can imagine the potential difficulty of such an announcement. This would amount to driving, in France, with vehicles offering a right-hand steering wheel as standard instead of the traditional left-hand steering wheel. Nothing prevents you, if you feel like it, from having a vehicle with a right-hand drive, or vice versa. But in practice, this can be particularly tricky on a day-to-day basis. For example, finding yourself having to pay your toll on the highway with an automaton on the left while the driver’s seat is on the right of the vehicle is unpleasant to say the least.
Under what circumstances do you intend to use your “ grab stick »?
To better adapt to the situation or to troll its future users, who are certainly delighted to pay tens of thousands of pounds for a vehicle that is now unsuitable for their daily lives, Tesla has decided to send them an intriguing tool as compensation. New Tesla Model S and Model X owners will therefore have the joy of receiving a bonus “ grab stick “. In sum, it looks like a garbage grabber as used to pick up an object from the ground without having to bend over. The aim is, for example, to allow users of a left-hand drive Tesla in the United Kingdom to be able to grab the toll ticket without having to get out of their vehicle, as illustrated by the Twitter post below. -below.
An open window, the grab stick tense, and the trick will be played. A situation to say the least grotesque that it is probably best to take with humor. After all, when we remember that Elon Musk had landed at Twitter headquarters with a sink, nothing, or almost nothing, should surprise us.
Source : Electrek
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