It's always difficult finding any objectivity when it comes to Musk. People get _so_ ideologically charged when it comes to him, be it pithy hero worship (his replies on X) or obsessive hate-stalking (/r/EnoughMuskSpam) - it seems rare for otherwise smart people to share their honest technical thoughts when it comes to any Musk endeavors.<p>As described, the author has some reasonable pedantic takes on the loop, but they're drowned out by what's otherwise pretty dull character critiques. I just... don't care how you feel about Elon as an individual. It's not interesting reading. It reminds me a bit of 2000s forum culture when it was difficult for people to explain their critiques on Windows without reaching for the satanic Bill Gates image.<p>"Teslas are bad cars and I realized this when Elon bought Twitter" has become a pretty table-stakes position amongst my more progressive peers. Am I incorrect in thinking this is a silly way to judge the quality of engineering?
>Like most detailed policies, the operations manual is an interesting read for
the pedantic. Some parts are odd in a classically Elon Musk way, like the
manual's use of "What's Elon like?" as the first example of a question that
passengers might ask a driver.<p>>Drivers are strictly prohibited from using any assistive driving features.<p>Not the first time: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ernst_Worrell_Keely" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ernst_Worrell_Keely</a>