Partly, I’d imagine, because Musk has made an effort to frame it as a “technology platform” rather than simply a vehicle.
His image as this innovative tech pioneer has historically given him leeway with legislators and transport officials.
You saw it similarly with the stupid Waymo self-driving cars in San Francisco; because it’s painted as this emerging technology of the future it suddenly becomes ok to test it out on the public.
Billionaires are afforded this assumption that they are especially competent in general, so we get things like Musks “hyperloop” and Bill Gates’ failed meddling in education reform that ended in abject failure. It’s that effect of “Well, they’re super rich so they must know what they’re talking about.”
And just like an incel, it gets incapacitated if you put it through the wash.
How did a piece of shit like that get a pass for being road worthy?
Partly, I’d imagine, because Musk has made an effort to frame it as a “technology platform” rather than simply a vehicle.
His image as this innovative tech pioneer has historically given him leeway with legislators and transport officials.
You saw it similarly with the stupid Waymo self-driving cars in San Francisco; because it’s painted as this emerging technology of the future it suddenly becomes ok to test it out on the public.
Billionaires are afforded this assumption that they are especially competent in general, so we get things like Musks “hyperloop” and Bill Gates’ failed meddling in education reform that ended in abject failure. It’s that effect of “Well, they’re super rich so they must know what they’re talking about.”