Hasta La Gadget!

The Tesla car company isn’t shy about breaking from automotive standard practice, building fast, near-silent , sleek electric cars in a world where most vehicles still sip dinosaur juice. So it probably shouldn’t surprise you to learn that the complex electronic infrastructure supporting the car’s many sensors and touchscreens doesn’t quite resemble what’s in your neighbor’s Honda. In fact, as our pal Jason Torchinsky over at Jalopnik reveals , the Model S’s internal network is strikingly similar to the one in your house or office, as a curious Tesla owner recently discovered.

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Last week, Jalopnik’s Michael Ballaban posted about what is easily one of my favorite urban stories of all time, which is that parts of Manhattan are actually built on the wartime ruins of English towns—churches, homes, pubs, libraries, shops, and businesses—all shipped to the U.S. as ballast during World War II.

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