This is the Elon I like to see. Less drama, more science, and ....humble?
Also, reading this article felt like reading Popular Science articles from the 90s-early 2000s, in that it felt appropriately scientific yet easily digestible.

I feel like combining infrastructure quality and traffic is a weird/problematic choice.

California has tons of roads and the quality of the pavement isn’t that bad. There are just too many people driving on them mindlessly. Roads generally aren’t the cause of traffic, motorists are. The access to vehicles and…

Great story, I really enjoyed that. I was especially pleased with the little diversion into semantics at the end.

Definitely more than a few.  And I’d know - I live in CA (and on occasion am one of the a-holes).

+1 flaming hoop.

Yes, on a track less than half the length of previous, from a standing start, and with thick Florida air, and people present who would expose any shenanigans.

So they hit 331mph Canadian?

Chase, is that you?

I wrote the response.  Then as I scrolled down I saw the other comment, and thought, that was probably the post that was supposed to be responded to.

Or they could, you know, do what everybody else has been doing for years

I have this system in my garage. Using it is a physical workout and you get to work on being smooth on the bike. There is no gyro-force pushing you into the seat, when you are leaned over, but I’m a novice track day guy and I don’t notice much a difference when leaned over. The big difference is braking and…

Leave it to Trump to turn the nation’s foremost disease expert into Kif from Futurama.

Why would aliens fly a mannequin drone?

This is just more evidence of the many many undiagnosed or untreated people with mental health conditions in this country.

I think your former colleagues got it about right 7 years ago.

Thanks for the tip, ski dude, but also...

They also didn't have a problem with Reagan committing treason and illegally selling weapons to fund terrorists in Central America. So there's that.

I remember when patriots didn’t attempt to sell government (PowerPoint laden) computers to Russia.