“down a dirt road in his 2013 Tesla Model S”
Dirt road in a Tesla?
On most vehicles, ground clearance is one or two low points, like a front bumper or part of the exhaust system. With a Tesla, the undercarriage is a flat pan that results in it having a very low ‘breakover angle’. Breakover angle is very important off-road.
Teslas are known to be ‘driveway scrapers’, like a lot of low-slung performance cars. They aren’t for normal driving on most of America’s roads, and certainly not off-road.
The guy thought it was a real car.
Buyer beware, the Romans had a saying for that.