“The Tesla Model S is our top-scoring car”
There's something that's been bothering me about this whole thing. Not the Tesla, but the rest of the market. Is that it? Is it that easy? A guy who made his money selling a phonebook and then an online payment processor can read a few books, hire a few people out of the same industry he's disrupting and build a goddamn amazing car (electric or not)?<p>Why can't the existing industry do this? Why all the mediocre product that's the tail end of pumping billions of dollars into R&D staffed by largely the same folks Tesla has been hiring?<p><i>edit</i> to be clear I'm not just talking about electric cars, but cars in general. There's a few Model S's in my area, and they're <i>beautiful</i>.