Whenyou get your car serviced, or repaired after an accident, is when the data is lost likely to be harvested.  They can't rely on using your phone to collect it.

The volume control and subtitle option, seem to be there just to make the Gizmodo video webapp look more complete, doesn’t even have a fullscreen button, the only thing that works is the tap to pause/play.

Media that paints Musk as a right wing psychopath is the surest way to make him into one. He’s going to Brazil for business and with real concerns for the climate, not for some nefarious deal to help wipe out the last rainforests even faster.

Interesting idea, the front end is still fugly, but overall it has some kind of style. If they haven’t upgraded the whole engine, gears and transmission from the original junk, it would be a one-trip trip to the caravan park before breakdown - our had a combi and a karmann back in the 70s and the combination was the…

I’d love a solar-glazed car with every surface above the wheels covered in it, so much easier to keep clean than painted aluminium body panels (plastics are even easier than glass to keep clean, as well as safer in a collision, lighter and cheaper), if it’s self-healing like gorilla glass it will prevent scratches…

I don’t know where you read that the solar array was 2400² inches, it only mentions 18m in length, it could be any width, from my reading?