1: BackstoryMost of us have got a few seconds of video out there we wish didn’t exist.No, this isn’t what you think it is. But it’s just about as embarrassing, and fortunately, our video crew has probably filed it away in some sort of long-term, cold storage where it’ll be very hard to find.It got recorded about seven years ago during a dragstrip video shoot for a comparison story. On my right, the estimable Art St. Antoine was revving the hoarse-throated flat-six of a white Porsche Boxster Spyder. As I remember, it made sort of a whooping-cough sound. By comparison, my orange Tesla Roadster might as well have had its mouth duct-taped. Its instruments were glowing, its fan was whirring, but as we were discovering, Teslas were mute but ever-alert cars. Robots in a zombie trance until you point your right toe, and it suddenly streaks down the street.Art and I were positioned in our respective lanes at our blue-collar dragstrip on the northeast corner of California Speedway. Way off to Art’s right, beyond the chain-link fence and the railroad tracks, was (still is) a scrapyard with a giant crane that looks like a steel brontosaurus. It appears to be… Read full this story
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