That red message on the wheel indicates a disastrous battery pack thermal meltdown, so undo your safety harness, get out, and run away, hopefully before the car is reduced to a spectacular multimillion-dollar fireball. Porsche values the Mission R at something like $10 million because this is a one-off concept, and automaker bean counters tend to assign astronomical figures to such things, just as they do to development mules. Receiving these instructions reminded me of a time more than a decade ago when I took a back-seat ride in an aerobatic plane as part of a Red Bull Air Race promotion. As a stranger strapped a parachute to my body, the pilot said something like, "This is never going to happen, but if it does and you hear me say, 'Eject!' three times, undo your belts, stand up, jump out, wait five seconds, and pull that ripcord. If you're still in the plane after the third 'eject,' don't look for me, because I won't be."
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