Tesla’s newest driving mode is ‘Chill’

Tesla streamed out a new software update to its electric vehicles this week; included is a new acceleration mode called simply “Chill.”

Earlier this week, the car reviewer DragTimes posted a video in which they stumbled upon the new mellow driving option while testing out the latest update in a Tesla Model S, the company’s luxury-class electric vehicle. Here’s how Tesla, in the settings on its touchscreen dashboard, describes Chill mode:

While experimenting with Chill in the Model S 100D, DragTimes found its acceleration in standard mode hit 0 to 60 in just under 4 seconds. But when in Chill mode, the Model S hit 0 to 60 mph in 7.2 seconds, which was described as “ridiculously slow, like what is even the point — no one wants to drive like that.”  Read more…

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