Dennis Renyolds is not a man to be trifled with, and apparently neither is the actor who portrays him, Glenn Howerton. The It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia star recently told listeners of his “The Always Sunny Podcast” about a – let’s say difficult – situation he experienced with his Tesla Model X.
The “Golden God” told his podcast (and IASIP) co-stars that he was locked out of his Tesla for over 24 hours in the bottom floor of a Los Angeles parking garage after his key fob broke without warning. He originally thought perhaps a dead battery was to blame, but sadly it was not.
-WiscoDave
Imagine your car works like your printer. Now you know what owning a Tesla is like.
ReplyDelete@Critter. Comment of the week.
DeleteThis was a funny episode.
ReplyDeleteAlthough all the connectivity can be cool when it works, this is one of many reasons my newest vehicle is a base model from the 90s.
...plus theres all that Michael Hastings type shit to worry about
I see some Teslas around here, probably faculty of UGA but in this semi-rural county adjacent to UGA I imagine there are places you can't connect to the Internet if you're doing it via cell phone service. In my neighborhood cell service is very flaky except through wi-fi.
ReplyDeleteHenry, Drove from Helen to Saint Simons this week. Could not believe the number of Tesla's I saw on the road. In eastbumfuck no less with tags from those counties. I don't get the appeal. Now Athens, It's a certifiable Tesla parking lot but when you look who lives there, you can figure it out.
DeleteNot directly connected, but related to Athens culture. In 2011, we had been living in Maryville, Tn (my wife's home town) for a few years. We moved back to Georgia to be near our son and were relating to him how nice people were in Maryville and how they would stop to let you cross even in a shopping center. He said, "Don't try that around here". Don't expect them to let people merge from an expressway entrance, either. My constant comment is that either they are academics or Yankees.
DeleteSo apparently the FOB connects to the internet, which connects to the car. Just one more stupid thing about these "high tech" EVs.
ReplyDeleteSometimes, I think that cleaning plugs and points, and setting timing wasn't so bad...
Ed
Be ready to see a whole bunch of libs bitching about their Teslas. Now that they see what Musk it doing to their pulpit Twitter, they're all having second thoughts about supporting the guy.
ReplyDeleteI always have to laugh at the Tesla's lined up to charge at the interstate rest area's that I stop at. One these day, I'm going to bring along a bag of charcoal and place a briquette on each hood, just to see if they get it.
ReplyDeleteNemo
Much of the problem was his fault. You can set the car up to connect to your phone via Bluetooth. Then you don't need the internet. The phone connects directly to the car and bypasses the fob. Any car that uses a fob instead of a key is a thieves dream and an owners nightmare. This explains why. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tQVov0Ra8g&t=27s
ReplyDeleteI am a dinosaur, but guessing "his key fob broke" does not mean it physically snapped in two?
ReplyDeleteI was going to comment,
ReplyDelete“Problems of having a car smarter than you.”
Then I realized, most people under 60, could be out smarted by a 1960’s era VW Beatle….
Thankfully, I'm old enough to know I'll never own an electric vehicle. Fuck that shit!
ReplyDeleteI want a bumper sticker that's says" keep you enviromental toxic car away from mine I wanna live"
ReplyDeleteI don't even know who the faggy-looking bastard is, or anything about the TV show.
ReplyDelete--Tennessee Budd
https://gmauthority.com/blog/2022/10/gmc-hummer-ev-pickup-taillight-costs-more-than-3000-to-replace/. Virtue signaling just got a WHOLE lot more expensive.
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