The trap he fell into in 1994 (albeit of his own making) was in enabling his Democratic opponents to portray him as an ultra-conservative, in part because he chose as a running-mate a man who had been a champion of the right-wing Christian Coalition.
While the car is certainly cool just watch the video below about a 95%-blind man running errands the gee-whiz focus suggests that it is just a high-tech dalliance by a couple of brash young multibillionaires, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.