Yesterday I drove my twenty-year-old souped-up BMW M Coupe 1½ hours to Owings Mills, MD to do a first ever test drive of an electric vehicle, a Tesla Model 3 AWD with full self driving. I will forego using millennial terms like "awesome" and "amazing," but I will say that the car corners and handles better than my sports car; it has rocket ship-like acceleration from the get go; it is silent, and the infinitely adjustable driver's seat and steering wheel are very comfortable.
I rarely had to use the brake pedal. Most of my braking, including coming to a full stop, was accomplished by feathering the accelerator pedal. This is made possible by regenerative braking. In full self drive mode I flipped the turn signal to make a lane change. The car started to move over, but the a$$hole in the lane it was moving to sped up and the Tesla immediately steered back to avoid being side swiped. The 15 speakers of the sound system sounded great even to a person with one deaf ear. The car's final spectacular move was to draw up at right angles to two cars in the parking lot that had one space between them and fully self park by backing up and turning into the space. I'll probably wait a couple of years to get a Tesla, but it's definitely in my future, tested as the safest car currently on the road.
I prepared for this test drive by watching lots of YouTube videos on Teslas. The quality control problems mentioned in many of the videos have improved a lot for the 2020 models. Apparently, customer service when repairs are needed is still not up to par.