The great cannabis countdown
What began as a bureaucratic setback ends as a triumph of internet humor. When the Dutch RDW postponed Tesla's FSD approval from March 20 to April 20, it took less than 24 hours for Elon Musk to comment on the tweet with "Inevitably, this will be 4/20." A meme that writes itself.
The numbers speak volumes: 1.6 million test kilometers, 13,000 customer test drives, 4,500 track scenarios. All of this just to release the car on 4/20 that might then drive itself to the next 420 event. The irony: Tesla's Autopilot is supposed to prevent people from driving under the influence. Now it becomes the stoned chauffeur itself.
Insiders report that the entire development department fell into a collective laughing fit when they learned the new approval date. "We specifically calculated the mileage so it fits perfectly into the 420 scheme," joked an anonymous engineer. Whether that's true? Unlikely. But it sounds like Musk.