I drive one. It's a slightly older model, generation 3 hardware, back from the days when everybody loved Elon (before he threw in with the GOP).

The car is fantastic. FSD is fantastic. Love the guy or hate him, it's the best car I've ever owned by a significant margin.

As someone who actually drives FSD, and the older version of it too, it is very good. On the highway it drives better than I do. At least once it has saved me from what otherwise would have been a serious collision- I was in the middle lane minding my own business, suddenly the car slams on the brakes and swerves into the left lane. I'm thinking it's lost its mind, when a pickup truck comes barreling straight from an on-ramp into the left lane. Had the car not reacted it's entirely likely they would have crashed into me.

I don't excuse Elon's politics. I think he has done a lot of good for our civilization with SpaceX and Tesla and bringing about the era of actual electric cars (which previously were perpetually always 10 years away). At the same time, I think his efforts to get Trump reelected have been extremely harmful. He does not tolerate incompetence in his companies and I don't understand why he tolerates it in his politics.

So it's valid to argue the guy is a net negative on society, it's valid to argue he has helped benefit politicians who resemble Nazis, and it's certainly valid to criticize his 'from the heart' gesture that really did look an awful lot like a Nazi salute.

The guy still makes an excellent car.