I was at the Tesla event last night in Manhattan which announced the Motor Trend's Car of the Year award. Afterwards I was having a conversation with George B and he said although he and everyone at Tesla were very proud of the Motor Trend award he felt that Tesla Motors and Elon's vision is much more than "The Car". He wished there was an award that was "Bigger" .... I half-jokingly suggested "How about Time Magazine's Man of the Year"
On the drive home I got to thinking why not??? Tesla is a game changer for the auto industry and the planet?
Why not Elon Musk? Who else is changing the world in so many ways at once with Tesla, Space X, Solar City?
Or if Time does not want Elon, how about the Model S as man/machine of the year. In 1982 the PC won the title so the Model S would be eligible.
Does anyone know how to nominate or should we start an email campaign?
Man of the year? Really?
When was the last time you recall one person changing your idea of what the future could hold. I thought space travel was dead, not even the governments of the world wanted to design a spacecraft. I never thought I would see a real electric car.
Like GB said these things are impossible. I believe Elon makes them happen. I think the space shuttle was the last thing that would fit into the category of what Elon is doing.
Man of the year is an understatement.
Started a thread on this 4-6 months ago. Maybe even a poll on TMC. All over it.
But what I want to know is, "Dude, where's my jetpack?"
Decade might be better. Just hard to say which decade(s)!
Wouldn't that rot JP's sox? >:}
But maybe we should wait till the Dragon is "man-rated" in a couple of years or so, and the GenIII is revealed.
only when the model S is in front of my house (in Belgium). then he‘s “ the man of the year”.#P 1332EU
Surely you don't read "Time" in Belgium!?
@teo... u heard about Elon's tube travel. might be better than jetpack...
@teo
Martin Jetpack (New Zealand) was talking about commercial production last year... mentioned USD $49,000 as the initial target retail price.
Looks like it would fit easily in the back of an S or X ...
;O
The Martin Jetpack is powered by a two-stroke ICE and it sounds like a demented chainsaw on nitro. I'm not holding my breath as to its commercial viability.
Does that make me the JP of personal VTOL flight? :-)
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