With impressive speed the phone began to issue driving instructions.

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Following a navigation system's instructions without driving into a ravine is hard enough as it is -- can you even imagine how hard it'd be if you kept losing GPS reception every time you drove within range of an LTE tower?

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According to the journalist, he wasn't provided with "detailed instructions on maximizing the driving range" before his trip, and he placed roughly a dozen calls to the folks at Tesla about how he could address the car's declining range and make it to his destination.

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In fact, one of the few instructions the team from Hotchkis gave me before driving the car was to strictly obey the E.

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