The Tesla Model S earned CNET's Tech Car of the Year award for 2012, and scored exceedingly high in its review.
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CNET and car reviews may appear to be an unlikely combination, but new cars have become technology platforms, using electronics to inform and entertain drivers, avoid collisions, and even save fuel.
Since we began reviewing cars in 2004, automakers have increasingly included navigation, Bluetooth phone systems, and advanced technologies for playing digital music files in dashboards. In fact, the latest trend is to give cars complete data connections, letting drivers use online search to find destinations or listen to streamed music from an Internet-based service.
Given our technology focus, CNET reviews cars differently than traditional publications such as Car and Driver, Road and Track, or Consumer Reports. Though the instrumented performance testing conducted by other publications certainly remains valuable, we spend as much time testing a car's cabin technologies as we do its driving character. We want to see if the voice command is useful, or how well the navigation system guides you to a destination, or whether a blind spot monitor provides a visible enough warning.
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