The brake pedal does not have to make noise for me to know the brakes are working. The pads do not have to clunk. There does not need to be a thunk to the contacts opening on the battery when I park for me to know the car is parked. There is a difference between convenience acknowledgements and mechanical parts being clunky, they are all put together here.
Kind of shows where Tesla put its focus, and that there is work to do on future models. People used to higher end cars tend to notice and maybe not like the extra clunky bits, everything should just work smoothly and quietly.
> People used to higher end cars tend to notice and maybe not like the extra clunky bits, everything should just work smoothly and quietly
That's kind of funny. Higher end cars are where you most commonly find fixed caliper brakes, and we are 100% used to the little noises they make. What's unusual here is Tesla choosing fixed calipers for an appliance car. So now we have people used to driving Priuses being exposed to mechanical sounds they're not familiar with.
That and electric cars are so quiet that you're going to hear things that are drowned out by an engine on other cars.
