Given what I've seen on twitter.com I think you may be overthinking it. IMO he legitimately thought he could 'defeat traffic' and make everyone buy a Tesla if he dig tubes around town. Which I mean you can pretty quickly disprove with a quick prototype: take a lane of highway and put a hat on it, see if traffic gets better.
what's the huge payoff with Tesla supposed to be?
or Twitter?
Huh? It's few hundred billion dollar company that's the biggest EV company and by some metrics the largest car company.
they've been slashing their prices and they make cars which catch fire. they've been around a decade and they still haven't turned a profit.
and again, what's the huge payoff going to be with Twitter?
And yet still have margins of >20%, dramatically higher than any other manufacturer.
> and they make cars which catch fire
At a rate roughly 10% of gasoline-powered cars.
> they still haven't turned a profit
They've been profitable since Q2 2020.
It's a car company that makes about 13% as many cars as Toyota. The fact it's priced at the sum total of every other car company combined isn't really relevant to the facts on the ground.
Twitter is one of the most-visited sites (probably top 20 eh?) in the world and it wasn't profitable. If you could make a few changes and make it profitable, that would be ideal. Now that it's somewhat integrated into society and used quite a bit, that becomes easier to do.