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Breaking my own rule only once: My car, that I own as a consumer, drove me through town, on the freeway, through another town, and into a parking lot four hundred miles away.

Twenty years ago, that was sci-fi. HN would have been able to reason clearly about it twenty years ago.

(Yes, I know HN wasn’t around in 2004. You don’t need to nitpick that)

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This is a thread about Teslas running red lights. Your story about a trip wherein that didn’t happen has no real bearing on this topic.

Your nice trip aside, no sci-fi hypotheticals make running red lights acceptable either.

“What if we invented a reverse microwave but it made everything smell like cheese?” or “What if we invented an interpretive dance that solved climate change but only people over 6’4” could do it?” have the same amount of relevance to Teslas running red lights as the human jelly machine you’ve conjured in your mind.

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