Big yep! on that, although with Musk being mercurial and pathologically triggerable, I can’t help but wonder if he would under the right conditions retaliate by threatening to release whatever especially nasty dirt he likely has on Trump from the time he “helped Trump win” the election up to the point where he was asked to leave DOGE. Stuff along the lines of what Iran allegedly has.
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Very likely, as. Mach-E owner, I was not in the market for an ICE mustang.
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Chumps.
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I like having lane keeping assistance and auto braking as compliments to my driving safety. God forbid I lose concentration or have a medical issue.
But I’m not turning my car over to a system that isn’t and won’t be ready for many years to come. If ever.
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Elon Musk is obsessive about the design of his supercars, right down to the disappearing door handles.
I think the Guardian is stretching the definition of supercar quite a bit there. You could probably make an argument that the roadster qualifies, but Musk had the least to do with that one, and they don’t make it any more. Of the remaining models, the S probably comes closest in its highest-performance configuration, but even then I don’t think it necessarily fits the standard definition. Certainly the remaining models (3, X, Y) do not.
Also, as mentioned earlier, the door handles may be an example of his obsession, but are a clear example that he is not obsessed with safety.
That opening sentence seems complimentary on first reading, but actually isn’t upon further analysis. Maybe the author of the article knows this, but I have my doubts.
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The door handle thing is just like a former boss I had. Narcissistic, convinced he was smarter than everyone else, and once he had an idea he would simply not let go of it whether or not it proved to be stupid in practice (or just didn’t fit where he was trying to shoehorn it in).
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Did you used to work for Musk, Trump, or both?
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Thankfully no. He was bad enough, though. He was moderately rich, but I suspect more money would have made him am even worse person.
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Yep, as it usually does. “Money changes everything,” as Saint Cindy reminded us, and one way having a lot of it does so, almost always, is by making us worse people.
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Money is like alcohol: it disintegrates inhibition, so you see the ‘real’ person behind the public mask.
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Hmm. I see what you mean, but I don’t think that only people who are bad people behind the public mask are made into worse people by having a lot of money.
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A lot of people literally can’t afford to act like the total assholes they are.
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I would agree with this. At a certain level money also isolates you from reality and replaces it with people who are only interested in money. It doesn’t just enable being awful, it turns the negative feedback into positive.
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There she is!
Those props are kinda funny. A slightly modified giant flashlight and . . . a photo album? 
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I don’t either. I was trying to be honest with myself earlier when contemplating the shockingly horrible behaviour of a hyper rich person and I factored in the impossibility of having a normal relationship with anyone in any context whatsoever when you are that abnormal a hoarder and I didn’t like myself at all.
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