There's a trendy taxi service where I live whose entire fleet is Tesla and I'll sometimes cut across their parking lot to get coffee. Typically there'll be a dozen parked up at a given time and they all have that issue to some degree.
This is a smart move. Tesla doesn't want to be disintermediated. Besides ride sharing is a commercial use application and may be costly to their warranty.
If you want to test drive a Tesla, I recommend going to a supercharger, finding someone with a car configured like what you're interested in, and talking to that person.
Even after hundreds of thousands of Model 3s have been sold, I still get nods from other Tesla drivers and chat with people at superchargers.
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