Photo of the Week: A Car Accident Al Gore Would Love

I’m that guy who never out grew my geeky teenage love of cars. I love the design, I love the inno­va­tion, and I love the racing. Within this fan-​boy obses­sion, one of my favorite car makers has always been Lotus. So a few years back when I heard that a group of engi­neers from Sil­i­con Valley were making a fully elec­tric sports car based on the Lotus Elise, I was really excited. The car is called the Tesla. It is an elec­tric rear wheel drive 2 speed con­vert­ible that does 0-60 in less than 4 sec­onds and can go about 300 miles on a full charge. (you read that right) I love the idea of test­ing new tech­nol­ogy in high end designs, and I love the idea of stick­ing it to Detroit for being so dumb and slow for so long. Anyway, at long last, they are start­ing to ship the Tesla to lucky (and stupid rich) buyers. Inevitably… this happened:

The thing that whips me more than any­thing else about this story is that the other cars in the col­li­sion were a fat mid-​level Mer­cedes and, my evil arch neme­sis: a f—ing Toyota Camry. Maybe the most excit­ing car in the last 30 years, crushed between two of the least excit­ing cars in history.

»Read the whole story in Wired.