The San Francisco Citizen

SFMTA likes us! They really like us! That’s the only conclusion one can draw after witnessing the recently installed pedestrian countdown traffic signals on Gough Street.

You see, our Municipal Transportation Agency got some money from the Feds. (Somehow it makes sense for us to send money to Washington so they can send it back to us. Somehow.)

In any event, these new signals should help save lives. (Of course, it’s still an absolute joke that pedestrians on Van Ness don’t have dedicated signals to help them get across four lanes of traffic, but let’s not dwell on that.)

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Hooray.

How many Tesla Roadsters have been delivered to paying customers so far, after a half decade of development and at least four production delays? A handful, so far.

How many Tesla Motors products have suffered accidents already? Well, let’s see, there was that one involving the car of a “Founder,” and then there was that other one that no one’s supposed to know about, and… Pictures or it didn’t happen, right?

Pictures! Now really, is an advanced air bag waiver appropriate for the typical driver of the Tesla Roadster? Is it true this particular car crashed something like ten minutes after delivery? Is it true that Tesla is trying to make the Roadster faster than the somewhat similar gasoline-powered Lotus Elise? Is it true that you could get a Lotus Elise for something like $30K and then have something like almost $100k left over to buy massive carbon offsets? Is it true that you can actually get a Lotus sports car with a manual transmission? So many questions.

Shouldn’t Tesla work on something practical like increasing the Roadster’s abysmal range instead of trying so hard to make it accelerate faster?

Here’s a Tesla in San Francisco that managed not to crash, on a least one day, anyway:

Noblesse oblige is nothing to kill yourself over.