I'd wager Steve's more or less right about "Project Roadrunner" (Tesla's ground-up rethink of how to make batteries better):
@elonmusk 's favorite airplane, the A-12 Archangel, carried zero defensive countermeasures because it flew so high, so fast, nothing could shoot it down.
@elonmusk 's favorite airplane, the A-12 Archangel, carried zero defensive countermeasures because it flew so high, so fast, nothing could shoot it down.
https://twitter.com/SteveHamel16/status/1310168979684687873
That aircraft later developed into the SR-71 Blackbird, but the original designer, Clarence "Kelly" Johnson at Lockheed's Skunkworks, called it the A-12... so that's what Elon calls it.
He also says, "the best process is no process; the best part is no part."
He also says, "the best process is no process; the best part is no part."
The SR-71 Blackbird‘s strategy for evading danger was the same as mine is in my Tesla: punch it and watch the threat disappear in the rearview mirror. 
As Elon put it on Automotive News Daily Drive in July:
(interviewer Jason Stein’s questions in *bold*)
“... I don’t really look at competitors. I’m just looking at: what are we doing to make our products better?”
(interviewer Jason Stein’s questions in *bold*)
“... I don’t really look at competitors. I’m just looking at: what are we doing to make our products better?”
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