He bought a McLaren F1 and wrecked it ~1 year later. [0] If you don't follow cars, this is an extremely special car. It was designed and built before the modern supercar era, long before computer design had the power it does not, and it still utterly destroyed anything that had come before it, and would come after it for quite some time. The engineering detail in it borders on absurd. They only made ~100 of the road-legal versions.

[0]: https://www.thedrive.com/news/32191/did-you-know-elon-musk-w...

So it was an actual accident, that he and Thiel were lucky to walk away from.

The post I commented made it sound like he destroyed it for fun, perhaps to taunt poor people.

Maybe you can see why I'm unimpressed with the quality of the anti Musk rants here?

We don't really have a plan to stop using fossil fuels for electricity generation so this is a bit overstated. Electric cars are good but it's not a complete solution.

Sure, I used too big words.

Tesla is arguably doing more than any other company to decarbonize the world, but that is very far from a complete solution.