After driving 1,000 miles in his newly delivered Roadster,Tesla Founder Martin Eberhard Gives His First Impressions of the Roadster. In short, the suspension on the car is pretty stiff, and San Francisco's roads make for rough riding; there's no place to store spare change for parking meters, and he doesn't seem to like the mirrors on the car very much. What he seems to hate the most however is the stereo/nav system:
The JVC radio-CD player-nav system-vegematic thingy is horrible. The thing runs some Microsoft operating system (really!), and it behaves just like you might expect. Or more like a Mac-righteous Apple fan might expect it to behave. You basically can't operate it at all while you are driving - even changing stations is a pain, and it is really easy to flip open some random menu by mistake. And you can barely operate it when you aren't driving. The nav system gives goofy directions. With all its features, it can't pull the radio station name from the broadcasted RDS signal, so the largest writing on the screen usually says NO NAME/NO NAME. How very useful. The iPod interface doesn't work with an iPod. The Bluetooth interface doesn't work with an iPhone. Blech.
Recently, Tesla #6 was involved in a fender bender in San Francisco, between two cars.
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