Weekend Tech Innovation Roundup August 10, 2024

After over 120 years of building cars, the automotive industry has provided us all of the puzzle pieces we need to build the perfect sports car. If you take the peanut butter and the chocolate and put them together, you get the perfect sports car. For starters, it's electric, mostly for noise reasons, but also because China is significantly more electric-minded than we are here in the U.S. market. More than 20 people are in hospital after a Mercedes-Benz electric car burst into flames in a South Korean car park. The car exploded and damaged more than 100 cars parked nearby. The ads on YouTube were intended to bring more 13- to 17-year olds to Instagram as TikTok's dominance rises. Welp, that's not happening, and that announcement from Musk is looking more and more like a way to get the automaker's stock out of a rut.