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: 2) by hamsterdan on Friday January 06 2017, @01:23AM
Agreed. My 96HP '79 Celica GT could go pretty fast (Speedometer wouldn't go past 180), it just took a lot more time to get to that speed than my V8 Grand Marquis.