- Get ready for CES.
What is CES?
Consumer Electronics Show.
I am going down there.
Lincoln's not coming, and
the family's not coming,
unfortunately, but I'm taking a friend.
I'm bring Zack from JerryRigEverything.
Jared from Ellie and Jared
is gonna meet us there.
There's going to be a
lot of other YouTubers,
Sam Sheffer, Marques, Unbox Therapy.
There's just a lot of them
that are gonna be there,
but more importantly,
we are gonna see a lot of cool tech,
and I have it lined up to see five
or six different electric vehicles.
New ones that aren't
even out on the market.
We're gonna go on rides and show you guys.
But first, today's video is gonna
be about driving down there.
I thought if it's gonna be
about electric vehicles,
I wanna test out the
autonomous driving in this car
on a road trip and show it to Zack,
somebody that loves tech, and
he loves his Toyota Tacoma.
I've never really been
on an extended trip in an electric car,
so we wanna get his thoughts
on the electric vehicle
and also what it's like
to supercharge and do all that stuff.
He has a little trick that he wants to do
with the autonomous driving,
so we'll show you a little
later, but check this out.
Here's the car.
We got the Model X.
I'm putting my suitcase,
my backpack, my tripod,
a little charging cable down there
in case I need it, all in the frunk.
Isn't that cool?
It's all right there.
I don't even have to put it in the trunk.
Look how much room I
still have in the back.
Look at that, I put the seats down.
We've got all this room
down here and all that room.
So we can put Zack's gear in there.
Let's hit the road, let's go get Zack,
and let's see what he thinks
about driving a Tesla on a long road trip
from Salt Lake City to Las Vegas, Nevada.
Let's go.
Plenty of room for your stuff
'cause all my stuff is in the front trunk.
- The frunk?
- [Daniel] I think
that's what you call it.
- It's the weirdest thing.
- Does this close by itself?
- Look at him using his hand.
- [Daniel] Yeah, push the button.
There you go.
We're gonna teach you everything
electric car, but the
deal is you're driving
'til the first supercharging station.
- Deal, I'm down for that.
You pulled my leg, but I'll do it.
- [Daniel] Have you ever
done autopilot before?
- I have not.
- [Daniel] Okay, this'll be an adventure.
Quick update, how do
you like your new truck?
- It's 20 years newer than
the truck I used to have.
- [Daniel] This one.
- And here's the thing, when I first went
and sat in the new truck,
I was like alright,
this will still get me
from Point A to Point B.
There wasn't a whole lot of difference,
but now that I've been
in it for like two weeks,
going back to my old truck
is like night and day.
It is completely different.
I do like it a lot though.
- Awesome, it's so good looking.
Alright, goodbye truck.
I love that you put the parking brake on.
- Yeah, gotta be safe.
You don't want it going
through the building.
- [Daniel] First thing's first.
Do you know how to drive this thing?
It's right here, just
put it down and drive.
Pull it down.
Hey, you're good.
- Just once and it goes all the way,
it skips reverse and neutral,
all the way to drive.
- [Daniel] Are you
comfortable with the seat?
You can adjust it as you want.
- No, seat's great.
- The navigation on this thing is awesome.
The navigation is super important
because we need to figure out
where we need to stop
at the different supercharging stations.
Between here and Las Vegas,
there are, one, two, three, four.
There's four between here and Las Vegas,
and there's one in Las Vegas.
Not sure how many we'll have to stop at.
I've been driving around a lot today,
so we only have 187 miles range right now.
Alright, navigate, type
in, type down here,
type in just Las Vegas, Nevada.
- [Zack] And there it is, popped right up.
- Boom, alright, calculating route,
finding superchargers for your trip.
Takes a few minutes.
There we go, alright.
We are gonna have to stop for 15 minutes
in Nephi, Utah, maybe 15 minutes,
we may not do it that much,
and then if we do for 50 minutes,
we'll skip the St. George one,
and we'll make it to Vegas.
But if we went nonstop from here to there,
it's 400 miles,
so it takes seven hours and
six minutes with charging time.
It's gonna take longer
than driving the truck,
so if we raced to Las Vegas,
you would win the race,
like long-distance race,
Toyota Tacoma would win,
but this is convenient.
I'm excited to show Zack
the actual charging station, it's cool.
Chill Mode is one of my favorite things.
I didn't think I'd like it.
I like to drive fast,
but Chill Mode changes your car completely
the way that you accelerate,
and it's the most smooth
ride of your life,
but you can't accelerate
really, really, fast,
but it's fast enough.
It's faster than most cars,
but you don't go really, really, fast,
but we're not about that
Chill Mode at this point.
Let's just hit the road and go.
- I'm assuming with Chill Mode,
'cause like you burn more
battery the harder you use it,
so if you're accelerating
and stopping a lot,
you'd burn way more battery
than if you just
accelerated slowly, right?
- Yep, yep, so if we
really wanted to conserve,
we'd go into Chill Mode,
but Zach's never really
driving a Tesla much,
so we gotta take advantage
of the acceleration.
Next stop is gonna be a
supercharging station,
and we've got a special video
that we need to film for Zach's channel
before the sun goes down, hopefully.
It's gonna be cool.
I'll tell you about it in a minute.
Alright, it's autopilot time.
We're going on the freeway.
There's a little know, not that one,
the one below it, pull back on it twice.
- So like pull it towards me?
- [Daniel] Yeah.
Then let go of everything.
- Let go of everything?
Oh man, this is weird.
- [Daniel] It's accelerating
because I have it
to go the max speed of 79 miles an hour,
no more than nine over the speed limit
so I don't get a ticket.
It'll just keep accelerating
until it sees a car,
and it has the adaptive cruise
kind of like your truck does.
- So we're about to make a turn right now.
- [Daniel] Yeah.
Here we go.
- No way, dude, this is sick.
That's awesome.
That's way cool.
- [Daniel] It works pretty good.
- How long will it do this for?
Will it take us to the
supercharging station?
- [Daniel] No, it won't
do it for that long.
It's gonna check in.
See, that car's getting a
little close over there.
Ooh, it saw in the
little thing, but still,
you always wanna kind of pay attention
and be holding it just in case.
Not holding it but like
keep your hands close.
Go ahead and signal to the left.
- Whoa.
What if there were a car there?
- [Daniel] It would see it.
- Then it would stop?
- [Daniel] Hopefully.
- What if a car merges into us?
- It should see it.
The cruise control should be good enough
that it sees the other
cars and it's breaks.
I've seen videos where they brake.
It does all that stuff,
but I've never actually
tested out in real life
where it's gonna get into a crash.
You might wanna take it off here
'cause you've got this guy in front.
There you go.
- I didn't do anything,
it slowed down by itself.
- It slowed by itself.
Okay, so look at this
truck in front of us.
It doesn't have a full-on truck car body.
I was a little worried that
maybe it wouldn't read it
and it'd keep going, but
it saw it, it stopped.
Sometimes if you signal
and you stay signaled,
it won't switch lanes, but now it should.
It's kinda creepy though,
right, when it does that?
- It reacts, the thing that
kind of freaks me out a bit,
is that it reacts so fast.
Like as soon as it notices
that things are clear,
it just moves over.
If I was driving myself, I
would put the blinker on,
check once, check twice,
and then move over.
I'm a way more cautious driver
than this autopilot is which is weird.
- That's a good point because I'm guessing
it thinks that you've already
checked over there, maybe,
and that's why you used the signal,
but it does happen really quick.
There's no time to,
to sit and wait.
I know if they did an update for this,
but it used to be really
sketchy where you would do it,
and it would just be
this abrupt lane change,
and now they've made it so
it's a little more gradual,
so it doesn't freak you out as much.
It's still scary when it's changing lanes,
but it's not as bad.
(relaxing music)
Alright, Zack has activated Santa Mode.
Randomly, of course,
they've gotta have this.
We couldn't do it, maybe we've
already put up the video,
but we couldn't do this over the holidays
'cause our autopilot was broken.
I was so sad, but if we can
get up close to some cars,
I'll show you the other
cars are actually reindeer
running down the road,
and it stays on forever.
Alright, Zach is working on
his special project right now.
He's got a crazy idea.
We're gonna try it out
before the sun goes down.
Usually we would have a
nother hour and a half,
but it is cloudy and snowy out possibly,
so we're gonna try to do this right now.
Check it out.
Look how pretty it is out there,
but oh, that's a mean cloud.
We're gonna try something
with the autopilot
that we've never really tried before
on an abandoned road in
the middle of nowhere.
Sounds like a good place to do it.
(laughs)
That person just honked at
Zack, in that little red car.
There's behind the scenes of
vlogging in the real world.
Zack making a video.
That was great.
Alright, Zach just flew his drone.
It's getting a lot darker out here.
Did you get the shots you need?
- Yes, I did.
- It was crazy.
That was one of the coolest things,
and it was something I did not expect
to happen with the Tesla.
Hopefully, Zack didn't break it.
We'll find out soon.
We're gonna go to the
supercharging station
and charge this thing
and see what happens,
but we got some great shots.
We're out in the middle
of Farmland USA out here.
Look at that.
The snow is coming down.
I'm gonna zoom in on that.
That's beautiful.
Definitely not getting
to Vegas super fast,
but I'm excited for you guys to see it.
We'll link it up here.
You can go check out Zach's
video if you haven't already.
It was pretty fun.
(relaxing music)
Now's the waiting game.
Alright, we made it to Subway.
This guy said, "Dan?"
What's your name?
- Kai.
- [Daniel] You watch our videos?
- Yeah.
- [Daniel] What's one of your favorites?
- When you cut open that basketball.
- The Wilson X with the BYOB guy Elijah?
That's recent.
Awesome, so we filmed
Zach's video and good news,
the car's working again.
The autopilot, it's working.
I don't know what this move is,
but apparently that means that's
good 'cause I just did it.
You kinda fit right in.
- Funny story, I actually
used to work at Subway.
I worked here for like
six months in high school,
so I could probably make a
pretty good sandwich still,
even though it's been years.
- Get behind the counter, come on.
This is the real hotel.
This is where we're staying.
This is what time it is, 11:25,
which is 12:25 back in Utah
where we're coming from.
The problem is the
destination chargers here
do not work with our
Tesla for some reason,
and we only have 16 miles
remaining, so that's not good.
Zack and I are going,
we just finished up his
video like officially,
we closed it all off so go
check that out, but for now,
we're gonna go to the
supercharging station
if we can make it there,
and charge up for a little bit
'cause you don't wanna leave
a car with 16 miles overnight.
It could use that 16 and
then it's completely dead,
and that wouldn't be fun so anyway,
the adventure of the road trip continues.
We made it with eight miles.
Were you a little nervous?
- Nah, I was totally fine.
- You're good?
Yeah, eight miles.
Think about that in a gas car.
When it gets to 50, you're freaking out.
We're at eight.
Alright, Tesla charging station.
Oh, that's a short cord.
Battery power very low.
I know that, car, that's why we're here.
You don't need to tell me that.
Good night.
Oh, it was blurry, good night.
Here she is.
We're at the very end of the building.
Are you ready for the real suites?
It didn't work.
Yeah.
Are you ready for
the real suites tour?
Where is the light?
We have a full vanity.
Look at those high-class light bulbs.
Check out the Venetian tile in here.
Top-of-the-line wallpaper.
This shower is not to be beat,
and it even has a window into the bedroom.
The nicest green carpet you've ever seen
this side of the Portland airport.
Look at that beautiful bed,
and there's the shower.
This is from the other side.
Oh, yeah,
and the view.
You can't even see it
outside and neither can I.
It's the next day.
It was super late.
We were tired, but I wanted
to close this video off
by getting Zach's thoughts
on what he thought about autopilot.
So Zach, autopilot in
a Tesla, autopilot 2.0,
and driving an electric
vehicle on a road trip,
stopping at supercharging
stations, initial thoughts.
- The first time getting in a Tesla
is just like a new
experience all by itself,
but the first time letting the Tesla
drive for you is also
very, very different.
Imagine being in a lane and the car
is doing all the work for you,
but imagine the lane if it's
about to split into two.
The car doesn't know what
it's doing for a second.
It shakes a little bit
and it freaks you out,
so you wanna grab the steering wheel,
but your hands are supposed
to be close by anyway.
But overall, it was a really,
really cool experience.
- [Daniel] So is this a gimmick
or is this the future of electric cars?
- Oh, 100% the future.
Even just the acceleration is what got me
the first time because
there are no gear changes.
You're going from zero to 60 in one gear.
where like in my truck,
I'd have to shift four
or five times for that.
It's just like the pure
simplicity, less moving parts,
this is the direction technology is going.
- So come on, can somebody please make
an electric pickup truck,
so this guy can get an electric car?
That's the only thing that
we need to make this happen.
- I'm ready or a motorcycle.
Either one, I'd be happy.
- I hope you guys enjoyed this video.
That's what somebody
who for the first time
using autopilot and going on a
long-range road trip is like.
See ya.
(relaxed music)
