What made me all of a sudden do a blog I here you ask? Well my dear blog reader, I have seen the future and wanted to share with you what it looks like.
So, a couple of weeks ago, a colleague at work came to see me and said he urgently needed 10 minutes of my time to discuss something very important.
What could it be I wondered? Had he come up with a new analytics algorithmic that was more powerful than Benford's Law, had he won the lottery (as unlikely to be the Spot the Ball competition, as no one has won that for about 10 years), or had he decided that it was time for pastures new.
Well it was none of those things, and it was in fact to share that he had test driven a car that was from the future.
As an avid car enthusiast (whenever I'm in WH Smiths), and also mindful that my current pet Jaguar is going back to the vets in April, I was all ears to hear more...
The car was the Tesla Model S (nope I hadn't heard of it either), and he preceded to tell me why it was like no car he had even driven before!
Intrigued, he took me to the website and showed me why....
1. It's purely an electric car, but faster than most sports cars
2. It's got a range of 300 miles between fill ups
3. It's got loads of gadgets!! The centre piece of the car is a 17" touch screen that controls everything from the map, media, camera, web surfing to car controls.
4. It's got an iPhone app that lets you control lots of the settings including telling you when it's charged!
5. It's got no road tax, congestion charge, 5% company car tax and costs about £6 to fill up the 'tank'
The car is basically like the world's most advanced smartphone that you drive. Having said that, it has a feature called autopilot, which will do most of that for you if you don't fancy tapping the pedals!
Like a phone, you get updates to the functionality, so it never gets out of date. Brilliant!
It's a really big car too and you can fit 7 people (or 10 Indian people) if you opt for the optional 2 seats in the boot. You can use the front trunk or "frunk" to store your luggage instead. Happily, the seats go up quite high so us 5ft 2" folks can see where we are going rather than driving from memory and touch...
So I've spent the last few weeks reading and watching youtube videos all about this futuristic car, and last week finally had a test drive of it to see if it was as amazing as all the reviews of it say...
All I can say is...Roll on April when mines gets delivered. :-)
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