Getting a test drive is for now about as likely as us being able to afford one. Instead, we drive it the way the engineers do: in the racing simulator.

While reality is an okay place for most of us—provided the booze doesn’t run out—it poses several problems as an environment in which to develop new cars. Building prototypes years ahead of a new model’s introduction is hugely expensive, as is transporting them to the far-flung areas of the world where they can be tested away from prying eyes. The mules need fuel and tires and multiple versions of all manner of different parts. The technicians that tend to them need hotels and meals—and beer. All of which add to the cost and time necessary to create even the humblest new car.
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