Tesla Model S P85D’s “Insane Mode” Launch Blows Minds—Here’s Video Proof

Elon Musk took the lid off his personal madness with the Tesla Model S P85D, the dual-motor, all-wheel-drive silent screamer with 691 horsepower and 686 lb-ft of torque. As if that weren’t enough, the totally electric D provides an “Insane Mode,” which unleashes the car’s full accelerative prospective and enables a launch-handle function for maximum thrust.

Musk said he benchmarked the McLaren F1 as the D’s acceleration target. With a zero-to-60-mph run that we estimate at 3.2 seconds—from a full-size luxury sedan that weighs nearly 2.5 tons, mind you—we’d say he nailed it, particularly taking into consideration that is the precise time we accomplished with an F1 we tested in 1994. What does all that massive, dyno-befuddling, Hellcat-humiliating torque do to unsuspecting passengers? The people at DragTimes just had to uncover out, and, clearly, nobody’s ready for the D.

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Warning: There’s a lot of shocked cursing in this video, and it’s not protected for unsuspecting ears or playing loud at your office. You have been warned.

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A version of this story originally appeared on roadandtrack.com via Digg.

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Tesla Model S P85D’s “Insane Mode” Launch Blows Minds—Here’s Video Proof

Ford Provides to License Its Police “Surveillance Mode” Camera Tech to Other Cop-Automobile Makers

September 19, 2014 at 10:08 pm by Clifford Atiyeh | Photography by YouTube/Ford

We’ve sat in parking lots, bored, and switched on the backup camera feed to watch who’s behind us. Now Ford has brought this notion to its logical and security-oriented conclusion for its Police Interceptor models: If an individual walks also close to the rear, the parking sensors beep, the doors lock, and the windows roll up.

Ford calls this trick “Surveillance Mode” and bills it as “a very first line of defense from prospective assailants” the automaker and its partner are now willing to license it to other manufacturers of police sleds. Certain non-cop autos from companies such as Tesla and Land Rover do enable the driver to enable the backup camera at any time, even at highway speeds. And automobiles with front and side cameras—which Ford doesn’t provide on its Taurus- and Explorer-primarily based Interceptors—can display a 360-degree view, which this technique cannot.

But as the officer in the under video attests, numerous police males and females have their heads down undertaking paperwork or working on their laptop even though idling, and this system does give them a heads-up to get their heads up when somebody gets as well close. And given the Taurus’s mail-slot rear window, her point that it supplies a wider field of view—particularly of a person’s hands—is well taken.

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Ford Provides to License Its Police “Surveillance Mode” Camera Tech to Other Cop-Automobile Makers