Elon Musk’s recent comments on public transportation before an audience at a conference in Long Beach caused an uproar among people who care about transit. “It sucks,” the Tesla CEO declared. Mass transit is “a pain in the ass” because it doesn’t deliver passengers to their door, he said. Musk also raised an improbable safety concern: Any stranger on the bus could be “a serial killer.” “That’s why people like individualized transport, that goes where you want, when you want,” he said.

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