I don’t see Lucid, MB, or any of these car companies overtaking Tesla. Tesla has something that none of them have and none of them can never have. Elon. Elon is a walking, talking, tweeting PR spokesperson for Tesla who also happens to own Tesla. He is charming and witty, almost like a Patrick Bateman, except without…

Yep, that’s about it.

It’s not a review, it’s a setup to write the last three paragraphs about why America is Bad

Cars are not imbued with an inherent sense of morality

Hey look! Another Tesla hate post!

Bullshit. The Prius is not an “anti-car.” It meets every definition of what a car actually is.

The only people who claim it is an “anti-car” are people who have an extraordinarily and willfully narrow-mindedness of what a “car” is supposed to be, a definition of what makes a great car “great” that hasn’t changed since…

Not even a counterpoint. Just fact.

What happened?

Counterpoint: it doesn’t

It’s still not crazy that 1/6th of an infrastructure bill would be spent on roads. 

1st gear: “Hybrids with CO2 emissions of between 21 and 60 grams per kilometer will be subsidized with 3,500 euros or 6,500 euros if an old car is decommissioned at the same time.”

Raph, why don’t you quit your job? It is obvious to a casual observer that you actually hate cars.
2nd gear: Highways are where we drive cars. We are car enthusiasts. We like better roads that don’t beat the shit out of our cars.
4th gear: If you have a problem with raking in huge chunks of cash from ICE vehicles, then…

Ya know... All these snide blog posts are starting to wear thin. 

Tesla has been saying that Radar and LIDAR were crutches that were not necessary. it looks like they put their money where there mouth is and it seems to work.

I hear you and I certainly don’t envy you the job of balancing entertainment with at least some level of practicality and good faith response to the question. In this case, though, I can’t help but feel that there must be something more funky on the new or slightly used market - even if it’s not outright ‘Juke-level’…

Writer has a decent budget and wants something funky, and unique.

Adrian van Hooydonk makes Chris Bangle look like Michelangelo

Agreed. This article is not very well researched. 

Hey Erin, there are 7.753 million people in the Bay Area. I’m sure you’re even connected to a few on LinkedIn. Since you didn’t ask them why people are moving, I’ll fill you in.

“If I had to guess, I’d say people are leaving California due to the heartbreaking wildfires that seem to get worse and worse every year”