Elon moves to Austin (Italy: home, to buy, salary)

[Need4Camaro]

Originally Posted by ashbeeigh

It’s an extraordinary time waster. I love it.



And your dream world of flying cars.

Originally Posted by Austin97

flying cars already exist. They just need to be mass produced.

Here are some examples of passenger drones.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBD4FdTz-yE

I'm actually not much into flying cars. I'm personally afraid of heights. I took one shot at flying a Cessna when I was a kid (pre-9/11 this was possible with a licensed instructor).. ..5,000 feet, hit turbulence, saw the whole city below me, I freaked out. He had to take over.

But since this is a thread about Elon Musk, maybe he will invent a way out of Austin's traffic problems .. and since California is just so pro in moving here, they should bring their traffic signals with them. California traffic signal intuition is the best I've seen in the nation. They're extremely awesome.

[ScoPro]

Originally Posted by supfromthesite

I looked it up and the last name Musk is Dutch.

He is from South Africa, of Afrikaans (Dutch) ethnic background. Technically African-American now? Lol

[ScoPro]

Originally Posted by Need4Camaro

I'm actually not much into flying cars. I'm personally afraid of heights. I took one shot at flying a Cessna when I was a kid (pre-9/11 this was possible with a licensed instructor).. ..5,000 feet, hit turbulence, saw the whole city below me, I freaked out. He had to take over.

But since this is a thread about Elon Musk, maybe he will invent a way out of Austin's traffic problems .. and since California is just so pro in moving here, they should bring their traffic signals with them. California traffic signal intuition is the best I've seen in the nation. They're extremely awesome.

Austin’s traffic signal system is an uncoordinated clusterbomb, and has been for decades. I recall many years ago that the Federal government gave Austin a $250,000 grant to synchronize the traffic lights on its major thoroughfares, but instead the city squandered it all on some pet project.

[ashbeeigh]

Originally Posted by ScoPro

Austin’s traffic signal system is an uncoordinated clusterbomb, and has been for decades. I recall many years ago that the Federal government gave Austin a $250,000 grant to synchronize the traffic lights on its major thoroughfares, but instead the city squandered it all on some pet project.

My least favorite light system right now is Hwy 71 at Riverside. The turn signal is beyond infuriating. The signal at Montopolis and the new toll road is of a pretty similar pattern and is equally as frustrating. Maybe Elon will send some money to the city he "lives in" to fix it.

[Need4Camaro]

Yea I have to admit for a city labeled as such a high tech metro our traffic signals are pretty terrible.

Here on 183 the signal coordination with the railroad crossings are terrible. Normally when a train comes, the signal facing the crossing will have to override the flow of traffic to allow cars potentially sitting on the tracks to cross and clear the intersection to reduce the risk of a car / train collision, which is fine and ours do that... problem is they’re staying green long after the gates have come down and the train is crossing keeping traffic parallel (non-impeded) with the crossing sitting there waiting for nothing but ghosts for a long time while the train sometimes even completes the crossing. They all do it up and down 183 in Leander. I was thinking of emailing the city but I highly doubt they will do anything about it. I did email them for a ridiculously short left turn arrow onto San Gabriel. It let’s like 3 cars go and turns red. They told me they would look into it but haven’t seen anything happen since. The signal on San Gabriel and the toll road turns into a 4 way stop every weekend it seems.

[Roadking2003]

Originally Posted by txtea

Because they appear to be white.

If you are born in Africa and live in the USA, you are African American. Skin color is irrelevant.

[Roadking2003]

Originally Posted by Trainwreck20

The 'African' in African American is referring to an ethnicity, not a nationality. The same for Asian American. The 'American', of course, is a nationality. So African American really only refers to American citizens of African ethnicity. Elon is not African American.

That's your definition and that's OK.

For me, anybody born in Africa and living in the USA is African American.

Anybody born in the USA and living in the USA is American.

Saying that only black skinned people can be Africans is like saying only white skinned people can be Americans.

[ScoPro]

Well, if you didn’t vote for Biden you ain’t black!

[Trainwreck20]

Originally Posted by Roadking2003

That's your definition and that's OK.

For me, anybody born in Africa and living in the USA is African American.

Anybody born in the USA and living in the USA is American.

Saying that only black skinned people can be Africans is like saying only white skinned people can be Americans.

'My' definition is the general one accepted by most people. You can make up your own niche one if you like, though. The US census defines African American as "Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa". US law defines AA as "citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa".

Africa is a continent made up of a large number of countries, it is not a country. America is a country within the confines of the North America continent. American does not in any way equate with African. African refers to ethnicity and not country of origin. There is no one that is a citizen of 'Africa'.

[supfromthesite]

Originally Posted by Roadking2003

That's your definition and that's OK.

For me, anybody born in Africa and living in the USA is African American.

Anybody born in the USA and living in the USA is American.

Saying that only black skinned people can be Africans is like saying only white skinned people can be Americans.

So if you are black and born in the USA you aren't African American???

Because that is what the term means.

African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans)[4] are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.[5][6] The term African American generally denotes descendants of enslaved black people who are from the United States,[7][8][9] while some recent black immigrants or their children may also come to identify as African-American or may identify differently.[10

Elon is a South African or rather an Afrikaner American.