I would love to see the smile on her face when it's pointed out to her that NC and the rest of the south use more coal per unit electricity than any other region, and her giant smughug of her Tesla is hilarious to anyone who reads a lot about the issue.

Anyway, this medium article is silly. Why would Tesla or anyone else make a performance car for autonomous driving (beside the fact that Teslas aren't equipped for autonomous driving)? When was the last time a taxi driver bought an X6 (that's what the Model X basically appears to be)? You know from previous posts that I don't love Tesla, but I'd also like to get behind the wheel of one just for the fun of it. There's nothing fun about a self-driving car. Cars are status symbols and performance cars especially are toys. Literally zero people would ever buy a Tesla (any of the current ones; we'll see about the cheap one that's coming out next) for taxi purposes. I base that on the fact that literally zero people have ever bought a performance car for the traditional taxi market. You want a taxi SUV? Yeah, it's a Ford Escape approximately 100% of the time.