This Week in the Future of Cars: Working Through the Chaos

About 8 months ago, Tesla CEO Elon Musk warned his troops that building the Model 3 would require "production hell." For once, the man known to sometimes be a bit too optimistic about timelines nailed it. Last year's Tesla's production numbers were dismal; now, according to numbers released this week, they're looking up. Meanwhile, WIRED's Transpo team explored why self-driving car crashes look different from human ones; how the electric car could fare after Environmental Protection Agency rolled back fuel economy standards this week; and why an electronic logging rule has truckers shaking their horn-honking fists at the Trump administration. It was a messy week.