Cars

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was driving the Pagani Zonda F around. And I just thought, that's the most beautiful car in the world. It is the most incredibly sounding car in the world. If I one day have the option, this is what I want. And then I had the option in 2010, I've had the car ever since. I'm never ever gonna sell it. It's truly a masterpiece that stood the test of time. There's some great cars from history that are recognized as being great in their time. This car is still great. — Have you taken on the racetrack? — I have, it's terrible at that. Well, I don't wanna say it's terrible that that's not what it's designed for. It's designed for the road and that's why it's great. There are a lot of fast cars that are straddling their race car for the road. You don't actually want a race car for the world. A race car for the world is a pain in the ass. It's way too stiff. It's way too loud. It's way too uncomfortable. You can't actually take it on a road trip. — So this actually feels good driving normal roads? — Totally, totally. — And you of course always go to speed limit?

`5:01:00`

— Always. This is why I love having this car in Spain 'cause they're a little more relaxed. Not entirely relaxed, but more relaxed than they are in a lot of places. In Denmark, I kid you not, if you are on the highway and you go more than twice the speed limit, they confiscate your car and keep it. You're not getting it back. They don't even care if it's your car or not. Like if you were boring my car and you went twice the speed limit, it's gone. So they don't do that in Spain. I mean, in most places except for the German Autobahn, they get pissy if you go twice the speed limit. For all sorts of fair reasons, I'm not advocating that you should be going much more than that. But there are certain special roads where you can't open things up and no one's in harm's way. And that's an incredible sensation. And I do think that some of those speed limits actually are kind of silly. And I'm not just saying that in a vacuum. In Germany, they have the glorious Autobahn. And on the Autobahn, there is no speed limit in a bunch of segments. And they're so committed to their speed-limitless Autobahn,

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which is by the way, very weird of Germans. They usually love rules. They usually very precise about it. And then they have this glorious thing called the Autobahn. There was a great case a couple of years ago where a guy took out a Bugatti Chiron; went 400 kilometers an hour on the Autobahn and he filled it and put it on YouTube and a case was brought against him. Because even though they don't have a speed limit, they do have rules that you can't drive recklessly. And he won the case. He wasn't driving recklessly. He was just going very, very fast. I've done the Autobahn a couple of times. My wife and I went on a road trip in Europe in 2009, and I got the Lamborghini Gallardo. We were driving up to 200 miles an hour. And I'd driven 200 miles an hour or close to it on a racetrack before. That feels like one thing. Driving on a public road, 200 miles an hour feels really, really fast. — Scary? — Actually A little scary, yes. Because you constantly think like on a racetrack, you know the road, you know the surface. You can walk the track most of the time.

`5:03:02`

You can know if there's a dip. On a public road, you can't know if there's suddenly a pothole. Presumably there's not gonna be a pothole on the German Autobahn. but it does feel a little scary, but also exhilarating. Speed is just intrinsically really fun. I don't know anyone I've taken out in a fast car. Well, actually I do know a few people. Most people I take out in a fast car, they grin. It's a human reaction to grin when you go really fast. — Do you know what the fastest you've ever gone? — I was probably at Le Mans, I think when the LMP2s were at their maximum power and had 600 horsepower and really sticky tires, we were going 340 kilometers an hour, which is just over 200 miles an hour. A bit over 200 miles an hour. That does feel fast. And it's really interesting with speed is that the difference between going, let's say 150 and 160 doesn't feel that much actually those 10 mile an hour. But the difference between going 190 and 200 feels crazy faster,

`5:04:02`

which as a percentage change is actually less than going from 150 to 160. But there's some sense of exponentiality once you get up to those limits where it's just on a complete different level. — Yeah, 'cause to me like 110, 120 feels fast. 200? that's crazy. — It really is crazy. — I gotta ask you about the details of your programming setup, the IDE, all that kind of stuff. Let's paint the picture of the perfect programming setup. Do you have a programming setup that you enjoy? Are you very flexible? Like how many monitors? What kind of keyboard? What kind of chair? What kind of desk? — It's funny because if you'd asked me, let's see, a year and a half ago, I would've given you the same answer as I would've given anyone for basically 20 years. I want a Mac.