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the tesla model s p85 d has two major headlines around it first of all dual motors which predicates all wheel drive and secondly you've got some autonomy or auto pilot technology let's run them down quickly now a Model S traditionally had a single motor at the rear driving those wheels these new d cars at a second motor at the front to drive those wheels to the tune of 188 horsepower at each end if you get a P or performance model like we have the rear motor gets bumped way up to 470 horsepower and the front a bit higher to 221 for a massive 691 total that gets this nearly 5000 pound car to 60 in just 3.2 seconds range is down but only slightly from a standard rear wheel drive model s that means adaptive cruise that maintains speed and distance to other cars along with the ability to come all the way to a full stop and resume to be honest nothing other cars didn't have a couple years ago ditto this cars new ability to read speed limit science and alerts you to the correct speed now highway Lane changing is interesting you can do it by just signaling our car currently just does the acceleration part for you but automatically a change steering is coming as well self parking in a Tesla means the car not only parks in a spot that you pull alongside of but eventually will bring itself out of that spot and to you at least on private property now autopilot is Tesla's name for what will eventually become full self-driving but which is coming now in phases of driver assist is p85 D which are top of the stack performance dual motor models are coming in at around a hundred and six thousand base and then we would add about another eight thousand dollars in options but due to the almost ten thousand dollars in tax credits available at least here in California we end up actually below the MSRP but still not a cheap car this technology will also be very interesting as we see the all-wheel drive get much more accessible in the coming model x