Israel makes sense for a starter market. Small country, high-tech population, intense desire to reduce oil consumption. It'd be easy to put in enough battery-swap stations to cover the entire country.

Demo or die.

I've been hit by a car, too. Now I wear a reflective vest like the ones the police wear. (It's ANSI Hi-Visibility Level II, if you're curious. It's that yellow color as opposed to the orange.) Coupled with a blue shirt, drivers think I'm a cop and always let me merge, turn, and generally pay some attention to me.

It's hard to wrap my mind around just how big an 11 liter engine is. It's more than five two-liter soda bottles of combustion. In size alone, that's massive.

D'oh! Metric... I knew that, too. I just didn't think it through that 100 kph is ~60 mph for some reason, and totally reasonable for a truck.

Speedometer's a bit optimistic, don't ya think?

I didn't know you could change the shifter to be a sequential-shift without also changing the transmission. Crazy.

I thought that was a sequential shifter for a moment and got really excited.

I'm just going to leave this here: http://hpmor.com

That's hilarious. Must be a Level 3 charger in disguise.

Do we know yet if the Tesla be an option to drive?

Lots of things are potentially dangerous, and these devices really don't rank very high on the scale of things-that-want-to-kill-you. If you were of the terroristic persuasion, the fastest route to a dirty bomb would be to go buy a bunch of smoke detectors and crack them open. They're a lot easier to open up then…

I rather get scraped up than risking getting decapitated

My two favorite responses:

• Shotgun must watch for cops.

Even though Bond didn't fly it, it's hard to beat the AMC Matador from The Man With The Golden Gun. Fast on the ground and in the air.

I never realized that "FIRE LINE DO NOT CROSS" was a thing. Which then begs the question— if the car isn't on fire, why is it a fire line and not a police line we aren't supposed to cross?

I'll check that out tomorrow. Thanks.

I'll check that out tomorrow. Thanks.

It's a bit of a strange Catch-22. My car is new enough that I don't have to worry about things breaking regularly, and the only real upkeep are oil changes. I don't put too many miles on it, so getting to the 30,000 mile service "checkpoint" or whatever will take another four years at least.

It's a bit of a strange Catch-22. My car is new enough that I don't have to worry about things breaking regularly,…

I'm looking to get a set of tools to start doing the basic work on my car. My apartment lease doesn't let me... but some stuff I think I can get away with, no problem. Is this set a good starting point? Should I wait until Black Friday for more better tools?

I'm looking to get a set of tools to start doing the basic work on my car. My apartment lease doesn't let me... but…