Report: German Police Pull Over Tesla Driver Asleep at the Wheel. Sure.

Last week, German police evidently faced a new sort of dilemma: how to pull over a driver who appeared to be asleep. According to a report from the Bavarian police, the cops tried to pull over a Tesla—model not specified—on the A70 autobahn, but the driver didn't respond. They pulled alongside and saw Herr Teslaman appeared to be asleep at the wheel. Thus ensued 15 minutes of a game we'd call, "Wake up the guy who's pretending to be asleep so he can blame his car for whatever he did to get pulled over in the first place."

We guess there's an outside possibility that this all really happened in the way it's described, but the report omits some key details. It does say that the police pulled in front of the car and it maintained a safe following distance at 68 mph, but that the driver appeared to be reclining in the seat, eyes closed, with his hands off the wheel. The police then resorted to 15 minutes of honking (or perhaps sirens—we're thinking there's a nuance to the translation of "hupen") before the 45-year-old sleepyhead acknowledged it was time to hit the ausfahrt and talk to the polizei. Once he actually stopped, they found a weight in the footwell. Which, as we proved, could be hung on the steering wheel to trick the car into thinking there's a sentient being at the helm.

The cops also said the guy was probably on drugs. That we can believe.