I noticed that the lights go on on impact. Is that by design or is it a bug? (I haven’t seen other crash tests to compare if other cars do the same, it might be a safety feature or something like that)

I guess I don’t use that much rechargeable batteries to be able to see a real advantage to this than the traditional: put them in the charger, plug, unplug when you remember and it’s turned off. And with long lasting batteries like eneloop or so, you can just store the recharged ones in a drawer when done.

I guess I don’t use that much rechargeable batteries to be able to see a real advantage to this than the…

+1.

Uhm. I lived in Barcelona for 3 years and a half and we got once a week small cockroaches around the organic trash can in my apartment. And I kept a ridiculous amount of traps around the place, that never seem to work. And they were the small kind they show in the video.

This works! Even 7 years later. I am amazed that this has been happening on/off for so many years. It should be quite simply to put a damn option in our profile pages to have this turned off and be done with that.

As of today, it’s hapenning again. Going to us.gizmodo.com doesn’t solve anything. It just keeps redirecting me to the Spain site. Who is the genius who assumed auto redirects were a good idea, in any case? If I want to go to the Spain site, I will use es.gizmodo.com. You don’t have to “help” me thankyouverymuch.

I understand the idea of what you could do to modify this... but being that this is (I assume) managed 100% by the software on the car, and that I don’t think that you can just put whatever you want to put on the car’s computer. And I am sure that Tesla has implemented a lot of safeguards to avoid precisely this kind…

Great, but this are no Lithium-Ion batteries.

I was used to access us.gizmodo.com, but today it keeps redirecting me to es.gizmodo.com. No matter if I use the us. or only gizmodo.com.

Since yesterday I have a question on my mind: disabling ludicrous mode, what’s the acceleration of this cars? I mean, assuming I don’t want to get the 2.5s, what’s the time to hit 100km/h normally on a Model S?

I had a 2006 Bora that, IIRC, the same night I got it we found that one of the two remotes also worked on my friend’s Golf.

I don’t know (or think) that this is a legit company and if their claims are or not good. But...

And hopefully, people will start producing it’s own electricity more and more in the future. Solar panels and such tech are getting cheaper, and I would expect that a big percentage of EV owners would also produce their own (or a part of at least) electricity.

I wonder: do they (the gov) take into account the possibility (even if not for this particular case) that the owners of such cars could produce energy by themselves?

Doesn’t the volvo beep like crazy if you don’t have the seatbelt? My Jetta does, even for the copilot.

Totally agree. I have had several times (until I added an option in the car and the Automatic tracker to beep when reaching certain speeds) where without even noticing I’m doing 160km/h (100mph). Having the car beep when reaching 130km/h makes a world of difference to be aware that you are going probably faster than…

Came to see this. Deserves more stars.

At what temperature did it had to burn to melt all the car like that? I assume the car has some strong structure that shouldn’t just disappear?

I know it’s expensive... but I always took my previous car to the dealer’s shop for the annual service, and will do so with my new one (a VW Jetta). You have to do it for the first years, to keep the warranty, and doing some other place afterwards where they could do it right (for instance, a Grease Monkey or such) is…

Well, I have an uncle with a very big mechanical shop, and lots of years of experience with cars in general, and he *only* trusts VW.