Having been a Tesla driver since 2015 I’ve gotten my share of single finger salutes and coal rolls.
There’s only one problem.
These are great cars. I mean off the chart eyes roll to the back of your head bluebird 36″ champagne powder first tracks doing bumps with teenage knees great.
Mom owned an Oldsmobile Tornado when we moved here and then she got a little used Porsche 912. If those two cars had a love child it would drive like a Tesla. Big American muscle car on the highway with an adrenaline junkie Bavarian corner hugger heart going up Indy Pass.
There isn’t a safer car anywhere. The HEPA filter was good enough to keep out all the Lake Christine wildfire smoke. If you saw what was left of the Tesla from the Maroon Creek crash you wouldn’t believe anyone could have survived. I’ve had a car spin out in front of me in the rain in Glenwood Canyon- anti collision stopped the car so smoothly the passenger in the back seat didn’t wake up.
I love these cars. I love that I still laugh whenever I drive past a gas station. I love that I’ve saved over $60K in expenses in the last 10 years. It makes me giggle. I don’t giggle often.
If you want some inside dope on Elon Walter Isaacson’s biography is a must read. I’d add Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy and the NYT April 4 opinion piece by Jill Lepore to that list. Executive summary: It’s all about technocracy. The problem is “test till failure” does not work well with human beings.
If you want to protest Elon- buy low pick up some Tesla stock and lead the charge to ditch him as CEO. A 71% drop in profits isn’t a great look on any company. Don’t forget the Apple Board fired Steve Jobs.