They can accelerate to speeds of 47 mph or 75 kph in less than 2 seconds, and may reach top speeds of 75 miles or 120 kilometers per hour, although they cannot maintain these incredible speeds for long.
The first casualty in pursuit of the record was perhaps the ironically named Englishman Sir Henry Seagrave, who in 1930 set the world record at 99 mph (159 kph).
A disclosure from the company earlier on Tuesday said initial information showed the car was in the Navigate on Autopilot intelligent-assisted driving mode before the accident and was moving at 116 kph (72 mph).
They looked whipped by wind, and for good reason — Sustained wind speeds in Neptune's atmosphere have been clocked at over 2000 kph: Faster than the speed of sound on Earth!
Traveling across a lake in Northern Italy, the boat was going fast at 190 mph (306 kph) , but ultimately became unstable and the pilots lost control of it.
He sped across the lake at an average speed of 295 mph (475 kph) , and whether he got cocky or just reckless, he decided to go back across the lake immediately before the water had settled down.