Two SoylentNews readers sent us this story about new car technology.
Start-up Faraday Future has unveiled a self-driving electric car that it says can accelerate from zero to 60mph (97km/h) in 2.39 seconds.
Faraday says the FF91 accelerates faster than Tesla's Model S or any other electric car in production.
It was shown off at the CES tech show in Las Vegas.
But Faraday Future has faced financial difficulties and one analyst said it had to challenge "scepticism" following last year's CES presentation.
The FF91 was introduced via a live demo, in which it drove itself around a car park and backed into an empty space.
The car looked good, except for one minor (major?) hang-up.
At one point, Nick Sampson, the company's senior vice president of research and development and engineering, was onstage with Faraday Future's main investor, LeEco chairman Jia Yueting. Sampson asked Jia to press a button on the car to prompt the "auto valet park" feature.
Nothing happened.
"OK, it seems like it's a little bit lazy tonight," Sampson said of the car before inviting Jia to give some remarks about the company.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Thursday January 05 2017, @09:27PM
edited to quick
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 05 2017, @09:34PM
I love this site! Thanks for the quick update!!
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday January 05 2017, @09:43PM
The question remains of whether those guys can actually mass produce that toy, fast or quick.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday January 06 2017, @12:10AM
Yeah, we went through this song and dance with this recent article:
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/11/17/1550224 [soylentnews.org]
The error will probably be made perpetually.
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