Clarkson Is Astonished By The Self-Driving Tesla Model X | The Grand Tour

With its bobby dazzler rear doors, this doesn't look like a normal family SUV, it looks better, especially inside, and it's also more practical because it has seating for seven people, a boot in the rear that's big enough for a owl sanctuary and then another trunk in the front because of course it's electric so there's no engine, although I'm intrigued by this car because it represents a whole new way of thinking about what a car really is. Take this huge command and control screen as an example, it does everything. the usual stuff, navigation, music, connectivity, etc., and much more, for example, if I want, I can turn it into a sketchpad and then I can draw pretty patterns, etc. as I go along or if I'm bored. being where I am here there you are swindon which one am I can I change it to be on mars look I'm actually on mars I mean I'm not there obviously but he says yes and that's fun oh and This is a good one if you don't want to see the car you are

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represented on the screen, you can change it to become Bonds Lotus, which is actually quite fun, of course, you may think that all this might be a bit. of a distraction when you're

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oh well, now you see that's the thing because if I pull this lever here twice, it beeps telling me that I've engaged autopilot, which means I'm not driving, seriously, I do. is doing. on its own, legally cars aren't allowed to drive themselves, but this is getting really close because it reads the white lines on the road and then just stays between them, so if I want to change lanes I don't have to bother.

With any of that mirror signal maneuver nonsense you just turn on the indicator and if it's safe to exit, turn on the indicator to get back into the center lane and that's just amazing, all this means I can drive around writing important messages. in my sketchbook because I know if the car in front slows down, I'll slow down if they speed up, I'll speed up if traffic stops, I'll stop honestly, this is the most relaxing thing I've ever driven because all I have to do is to sit here unless, of course, I can't be bothered to do even that.

Well, the car is there and they literally can't ask me to walk to it, so I pull out my phone and put it on summon mode. to the vehicle and here we go, I mean it can't pull out of a parking space or come at you from across town so it's just a trick, but what's wrong with a trick that's brilliant and it stops, but how is it if In fact, drive it well because it's electric, it's quiet, obviously eerily quiet, stupidly quiet, too quiet, like they say in the movies, it's also heavy because of its huge battery pack, however, because Because it is mounted under the floor, the center of gravity is very low and because I have an electric motor in the front that drives the front wheels and another in the rear that drives the rear wheels, the car feels agile and agile, It feels good, so you're thinking it's a fun-filled family car with spectacular doors and lots of things to excite your inner child, but there's nothing here for the enthusiast motorist hmm, not so fast on that because I'm going.

What to do now is a drag race with this family SUV against a 600 horsepower V10 mid-engined Audi R8 right before me. Do this, I'm going to activate what's called ridiculous mode, there we are, wait, I have a choice, I really want to do this, no, I want my mommy, yes, bring it, there we are and then, because I have the mental age of a nine year old boy I'm going to use the warp speed graph and there it is okay I'm ready sweet Jesus that's really really ridiculous 100 miles per hour 105 110 112 yards approaching that's amazing no wonder this thing is equipped with my favorite mode of all, celebration mode, there we are, all I have to do now is put it in park, get out and close the doors, check this out, so it might be a two and a half ton PlayStation and seven seats, but it will be of no use. 60 in 3.1 seconds and has a top speed of 155 so it really seems to be all things to all men it's serious and cheerful it's sensible and silly it doesn't feel like anything else it doesn't look like anything else it's fabulous, however there are some drawbacks, but before talking about them, Mr.

Willman said he should fill the remaining six seats with a team of lawyers. The first thing I want to talk about is range because Tesla says this will go 351 miles between charges, but in my experience it's electric. cars never reach the range how extensive is your experience jeremy how many electric cars have you driven two ah neither of them managed to reach the range the manufacturers said they would because it depends on the temperature it depends on a million things anyway like you has legally said that we need to make it very clear that it depends, it depends on the conditions, most people don't drive like a maniac like you, I don't, I'm going 34 miles an hour right now, but we're also clear on that.

You accept that this car can go 351 miles between charges, right? Don't know. I have tested it well. I think we should accept that. If that's what you say, I say so and we have no evidence to contradict it. just take what a car manufacturer says as gospel, well they say their cars are exciting. I wouldn't want to contradict them on television unless we have solid evidence for the country to suggest that a manufacturer's claim is false, that's not where we're going. to go today, okay? So, batteries. We in this program have some experience with electrical fires in an accident and this has the same type of batteries that the Rimac had.

Yes, that was in an accident. Didn't he go off an edge? It rolled down two slopes, what are you saying? It's too small to see over the steering wheel I'm not saying anything I'm just saying it was an accident What people don't understand is that if you crash an electric car and it has lithium ion batteries it could catch fire and often the fire department shows up and They only have water on board, so when you're sitting there on fire, you get electrocuted, it's something worth keeping in mind. Okay, I think we should make it clear that we are not suggesting that these cars have any inherent defects, I mean, look what happened to Samsung with their batteries, oh, let's not start slandering Samsung, I think the battery is good . uh analogy for labor legislation and reviews in general and that you have to have it, it has to be balanced, it must have the positive and it must have the negative, we should take that into account, not what we should take into account is that what I just said written in the screen I know an area we need to discuss.

I think the biggest drawback to this car actually is its width, it's so wide, 79 inches, that it won't actually cross the Albert Bridge in London. It won't really cross. the bridge or do you mean it won't go through a width restriction, a road narrows to the right so I must say this is too wide to go through the width restriction at the beginning and indeed at the end of the Albert Bridge , that's perfect, however, there is an advantage. At this size, especially in a supermarket parking lot when your

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x is full of lawyers, don't listen, I mean, what are you saying?

Stay there, stay there, okay, I advanced the phone call mode so that never stops surprising me a little more. a little more and stop right now, you can't open the doors, you're trapped, which means you can't interfere when I tell you the big drawback of this car is that it weighs one hundred and fifty-six thousand pounds.