I realize he doesn’t have an engineering degree, but the man is an engineer in my eyes. As I understand, he helps solve technical problems by offering his insight, just as an engineering manager does. 

Like five years ago, I thought I wanted one of these. The theory was, it would be a perfect Radwood type of car. At the time, I wanted a cool “local car” because I was living in East Nashville, and most of my trips were only like 3-4 miles, at the most. Sometimes I’d get wild and drive like 20 miles to the ‘Boro, but…

Hey now, the mustang’s getting long in the tooth. C&C crowds have become wary of attacks from the side.

Any cult leader worth his salt tests the congregation to see how loyal they really are. Making all that kool-aid just to have no one drink it would be pretty embarrassing.

obligatory

Pre-emptive

I like to drive with the steering column height adjustment unlocked so I can enable another dimension while turning.

No to phones but a BIG yes to smart key. I didn’t know I needed it til I had it.

My husband's car is one of the in-between eras, where it has a smart key but it also can be inserted into a slot in the center console to start the car. His battery has been slowly dying, and I've spent so much time sitting in the car, watching him try to start it with the button, asking, "Why don't you just put it in…

I feel like Elon is trying to make a car for people who hate every aspect of driving a car.

“We have audited your car and noticed that you have not purchased the Reverse function. We are deleting this function from your vehicle.”

[tries to back out of driveway]

They can’t do a consistent panel gap, but they can predict whether you want to go forward, backward or park. Got it.

This is one of those concepts that is “fine” if you play its rules, but will be indescribably maddening if you need it to do something counter to its logic.

No.

“There was nothing good about the Challenger disaster, but it did happen on the day that L. Ron Hubbard died and it blew that useless, evil, rat bastard’s obituary off the front page and that, at least, wasn’t bad.”
- Penn Jillette

Okay so...

Yeah, it’s a fantastically high-overhead area where both the direct cost of doing business and (unless you bought your house years and years ago and preferably during a trough in the market) the cost of living, and thus what you have to pay high-skill people, are both outrageous.

The beauty of the stalk is the ease of flicking it in one direction or the other without much thought. Those buttons have to be pushed very deliberately, which I assume would reduce utilization.

This. This right here. There is no way, even if I have the expertise and knowledge that I will do it correctly the first time, that I can afford to spend 2 full working days and change to fix my car. My time is worth WAY more than that. Is it worth $3,550? Not entirely certain, but discounting this as just “a weekend…