I'll post some thoughts about getting acquainted with my '20 RDesign T5 with Polestar.
Until the beginning of this week, our garage had an '02 BMW 325 xi, a '90 VW Vanagon Westphalia, and an '17 Yamaha FJR-1300 motorcycle (all in a narrow two-bay garage!), with an '04 BMW X3 outside.
As posted here, it's taken a little time to adjust to the "double pop" shifting. Coming from driving nothing but manual cars since the late 70's (do the math - yep, I ain't that young), and rarely driving automatic rentals, adjusting to PRND has been amusing. So far I haven't hit walls in front or behind when starting to roll. Actually, the double-pop is coming almost ...ah-hem... automatically.
There is one McGuffin, though. Get a little enthusiastic and the car's in Manual. Which can be a surprise on a test hop When the motor winds up something fierce because the car's in M1. Oops.
Turning the motor off (push start/stop, not auto-stop) and the car's dropped into Park. The e-brake isn't set, though. Lots of people rely on Park and don't worry about the e-brake. The XC40 very nicely drops out of Park, of course, when going for anywhere on RNDM. Start to drive in either direction and the e-brake comes off. With a small bump, as a reminder to release the e-brake first. Or not. It's your car.
Next, thoughts about voice command. SPOILER - IMHO it sux.
Until the beginning of this week, our garage had an '02 BMW 325 xi, a '90 VW Vanagon Westphalia, and an '17 Yamaha FJR-1300 motorcycle (all in a narrow two-bay garage!), with an '04 BMW X3 outside.
As posted here, it's taken a little time to adjust to the "double pop" shifting. Coming from driving nothing but manual cars since the late 70's (do the math - yep, I ain't that young), and rarely driving automatic rentals, adjusting to PRND has been amusing. So far I haven't hit walls in front or behind when starting to roll. Actually, the double-pop is coming almost ...ah-hem... automatically.
There is one McGuffin, though. Get a little enthusiastic and the car's in Manual. Which can be a surprise on a test hop When the motor winds up something fierce because the car's in M1. Oops.
Turning the motor off (push start/stop, not auto-stop) and the car's dropped into Park. The e-brake isn't set, though. Lots of people rely on Park and don't worry about the e-brake. The XC40 very nicely drops out of Park, of course, when going for anywhere on RNDM. Start to drive in either direction and the e-brake comes off. With a small bump, as a reminder to release the e-brake first. Or not. It's your car.
Next, thoughts about voice command. SPOILER - IMHO it sux.