[agumonkey]

Trying not to be too much of a fan boy I smiled at the fact that, on its way to develop EV market recognition and infrastructure they made cars that topped anything else in safety and speed.

'if you want to have EV, all you have to do is buy the best cars we just made' kind of.

[prawn]

Agree - it's incredible.

How Time have not managed to throw him Person of the Year yet, I cannot understand. The cars, the solar network and SpaceX. They're huge undertakings.

[agumonkey]

read the article here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11419772

may be a reason why Musk isn't there yet.

[prawn]

I didn't see anything there that would preclude him from topping some recent Person of the Year candidates. His companies have achieved impressive things already - including a car already launched to very strong reviews.

The article compares the Model 3 to the Bolt. I think in the second phase of his unveiling, Musk will announce that the Model 3 will be self-driving. There were strong indications in his Twitter AMA yesterday that it won't be driven like a normal car.

[warfangle]

Rather not give the daily beast ad revenue, thanks

[agumonkey]

They're not to be trusted ?

[forgetsusername]

>that topped anything else in safety and speed.

In what sense? Look at European NCAP safety ratings; the Model S is great, but certainly didn't "top anything else". There are quite a few cars with better overall safety ratings.

And speed? Good acceleration, sure. But not faster than anything else. Top speed either. Where does this myth originate?

[agumonkey]

Maybe I forgot and it was the US standards that had to recalibrate but it was said in a few articles that Model S was above the highest ratings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Model_S#Safety But I now read that there was a rebuttal ..

For speed I meant the 0 to 100km/h, but anyway you're right, not the fastest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fastest_production_car... , only number 6. Maybe seeing it faster than a McLaren made me assume it was number one.

[jtuente]

I imagine that his basis point is among consumer electric vehicles, which is an admittedly small pool to work from.