I recently spent several days driving the Tesla Model S — the torqued-up, all-wheel-drive P85D ($105,000) version — around Silicon Valley. I wafted up and down Bay Area freeways in electric silence, the car’s smooth adaptive cruise control doing everything but steering, and thus taking the edge off of the occasionally atrocious California traffic. (Full Autopilot is coming to Tesla soon, eventually permitting on-ramp to off-ramp autonomous drive.) The roads in and around the tech world’s epicenter are, of course, dappled with Model S’s by now, and for a few days I felt part of the SV/EV in-crowd.http://gearpatrol.com/2015/08/10/best-car-world/

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