Nah, he just wanted to extract that extra bit of kinetic energy via regenerative braking while Passat owner couldn’t see it and help VW restore some of that air it polluted over the years. That’s an extra 0.62 Euros he recovered right there.

Nice try but:

username suggests undercover cop.... beware ;p

When I was 19 years of age, the sexual proclivities of young people wasn’t anything, anything like I see today.

I’m sensing a certain amount of prejudice in this and other comments. It’s like the only people who should be able to build supercars are the Brits, the Italians, the Germans, and maybe the Swedes and the Americans (right $kay?). Anybody else, especially anyone from a middle-eastern country, is just a pretender.…

its moments like these that get me through the day, 5 o’clock doesn’t seem as far away now. Many thank you’s Kristen.

They could, but it’s too dangerous to stop from.. they’d have to slow down first.

...briefly!

I presume you stopped reading the article at that point, as it goes on to explain specifically why it did not stop. Basically, the human is the boss, and they may override anything with their decisions. This would be useful in a situation where you were, say, faced with a glass store front while an out-of-control…

They switched to Monster Cables.

I am genuinely thinking about it. With an UGLY 25 mile/day commute and chargers at work, I could keep my truck and pay for it with the savings in gas. Being a three car family is a hard sell though.

American car makers went busto because they couldn’t compete against foreign companies in America. Last time I checked, foreign automakers are also subject to American laws when they want to sell in America.

I’m especially impressed at the reports that on missions where the specific goal was to capture people, they violated orders and executed them instead. They directly disobeyed orders, and it looks like they got no punishment at all.

Definite lack of leadership. Should never happen, and if true, people need to go to the brig.

10 bucks says that after he’s quit he will be a regular at his nearest cars and coffee (or similar gathering)

Just to fuck with you and show that they read your articles, I would love to see a rotating Jason Torchinsky on the dashboard tomorrow.

“If we look up at the roof of this building there’s a lot of steel structure up there that’d [prohibit] some of the signals.”

demo fails.

Can we talk about how they turned the air vent grill into the entire dash in a way that looks so fucking good?

I’m happy with anybody trying to get this stuff into production. I’m tired of watching people text in the car next to me on the highway.