$1000 worth of Volative lap dances at a strip club is no problem.

C.A.P - Combat Air Patrol - aircraft that are armed constantly rotated to Patrol a conflict zone. I'm sure we could do a C.A.P. w. fighter escorts protecting B-52s equipped with a cruise missile.

When you can't do something blame the government.

Tesla may have better optimized software and reduced friction components (within the axle) to take advantage of cruising. The software surely would take advantage of in depth GPS data and analytics gathered by the many Tesla model already on the road. Also Tesla may have improved regenerative braking capabilities.

The Safest? What statistical evidence is there to support this? VOLVO's LAST generation XC90 (released in 2003 for the US) has already been recognized by the IIHS for going a significant number of model years without any deaths and IIRC the Acura MDX received the same recognition. Just because Musk says its the safest doesn't mean so. Volvo has decades of real world crash statistics (including blood splatter patterns) for car interiors they have use to refine their cars for decades. If find it funny Musk directly compared the crash test results of a 65K+ Model S vs a 34K+ Volvo S60. Has ANY Tesla been subjected to the IIHS Small Overlap Crash Test? (I wonder why). Volvo started engineering their cars to handle Small Overlap Frontal Collisions over 20 years ago. When the IIHS started performing Small Overlap Frontal Crash test even Mercedes with its vaunted safety credentials was caught off guard. How well will a Tesla front seat hold up to high speed rear collision - something not currently tested for? Both Volvo & Mercedes engineer their seats not to collapse in such collisions. Volvo has already set a goal for no serious Deaths or Injuries in their new models by 2020 and part of reaching that goal is their advanced autonomous driving capabilities. Yes the new XC90 can steer its way out of certain collisions autonomously too & all Volvos come standard with autonomous City Safety Braking. IIHS statistics prove that Volvo's with City Safety Braking have reduced collisions rates significantly for Volvo models versus competitors.

I think the safety of the drivers of those Volvos, Infiniti, Mercedes etc is bit more important than your want to avoid speeding tickets.

As Volvo has laid out the implementation the KERS powering the rear axle allows effective AWD without the need for a "propeller shaft" to send power to the rear of the vehicle. AWD additional complexity happens no matter whether a car is electric or petroleum power. What about maintaining a set temperature range for a battery pack and shielding large battery packs that may stretch a significant length of the car from debris/crashes?. All the wiring needed to connect the cells that make up the battery pack? Charging infrastructure that has to deployed ? That IS complexity compared to Volvo's KERS system augmenting an internal combustion engine.

I think you maybe wrong about that - my understanding is the flywheel can remain spinning (energized) for a significant time period after the car is shut off.

I graduated from Auburn University at Montgomery (BS in Business Administration, Management Information Systems major) and never took a foreign language. They used programming classes I took to meet my foreign language requirement.

This is just a reminder that you live in the "Land of the Free"

I visited my sister's family over the Holidays and my Electrical Engineer brother-in-law is a manager for an aircraft company. His group designs Electronic Counter Measures for military aircraft. He stated that he was going to have to lay off people from his team after the Holiday break. I would think many of these people could transition into positions of Data Center Engineers, Database Administrators or perhaps Network Engineers. At my previous employer, a large well known global website, I was the only DBA without an engineering degree (B.S. Business Admin - MIS major)- engineers apparently make great DBAs. The director over the DBA group at the website has a Masters in Electrical Engineering.

Airwolf could do that in the 1980s and it's a helicopter

When it helps get you laid.

Communicate effectively with less intelligent people

I know in the U.S.A. you can barred from being a Police Officer if your I.Q. is to high. Are the French Police intelligent enough to use Linux ?