I would dislike it because that would make people think I stalled and can’t drive stick.
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Draining of the battery depends a lot on what is on while the engine is off. Lights, radio, CD player, fans. The more of these that are on and the longer the engine is off, the more the battery is drained. Combined with this is the amount of time driving with the engine running. Shorter engine-running times will drain a battery more quickly.
My wife’s car, a hybrid, will turn off the engine a lot. But, when the hybrid battery drains (sitting in traffic for five minutes or so, e.g., waiting to enter a stadium parking lot), the engine will turn back on.
I think the car is designed to make sure the 12V is as full as possible.
Me too…then I drive my old car and jump out forgetting to turn the engine off 
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I figured it would just wear the starter out faster, but interesting to hear there is a separate battery too.
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My grandmother famously didnt have the money to pay to fix her leaking car (in england at that) so the mechanic drilled a hole in the floor
How do say you drive a Tesla without saying you drive a Tesla.
Is Tesla the only one that does this? I’ve never looked but assumed others would follow suit.
Yeah, the VW ID.4 does that.
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Tesla was certainly the first
My current car is older and doesn’t have the bells and whistles. But, prior to being separated, the family car did. My 2 favorite features were break hold so I could take my foot off the break at stoplights and seat and mirror settings tied to each individuals fob. That was especially handy because I’m quite a bit taller than my ex.
Adaptive cruise control was nice too.
Congratulations. I too got a new space age car with these features this month, and in 48 months it will be mine, all mine. And it runs on good old fashioned gasoline. None of these new-fangled electrical cords for me.
I also hate the auto-turn-off-at-red-lights feature. I can disable it, but that act of disabling must re-happen every time I start the car.
@dr_t_non-fan most cars that have the rear wiper are those that have more vertical type rear windows. And I don’t think they are required.
@1695814 funny story, my daughter drover her husbands truck from one state to another and left at about 4 in the morning. Her husband had started the truck and got it ready for her to go. In the after noon she was talking to him on the phone and asked how to get the dash to brighten up. He asked if she had turned off the headlights. Her car has auto headlights so she never worries about that. His truck does not, but since she didn’t turn them on, she didn’t realize she needed to turn them off.
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I was behind a Tesla at the carwash. It had a new temp tag in the window that looked like they had bought it 2 weeks ago. The attendant had to shut the carwash down for the driver to figure out how put it into neutral to go through the carwash. 
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Yeah, I like that the new car’s driver’s seat goes back all the way when you turn off the car. I hate when I forget to move the seat back on the other car after the wife drove it and I crash into the steering wheel or bang my knees.
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So I’m on a couple subreddits for Teslas. And I swear half of the Tesla owners have never owned a car before. There are a LOT of clueless Tesla owners.
I can almost excuse not knowing how to get into neutral, but it is marked on the gear stalk, so there’s that.
