Paul Pfanner, whose OnCars team helped introduce the Model S in 2009, looks past Tesla's flying Roadster at the robots now being built where that car was made, and at an ambition with no apparent ceiling.

Paul Pfanner's teammates at OnCars Studios made the films that introduced the Tesla Model S in 2009. Last night he watched Tesla make its new Roadster fly, and came away with a question the show didn't answer.

The car brands you grew up with are being repriced all at once, and the sport that depends on them hasn't gotten the invoice yet. Paul Pfanner on Porsche, the yen, China, and a pattern he has watched form before.

Licenses are decreasing, robotaxis are ordinary traffic, and the open road is pricing itself out of reach. Paul Pfanner argues that what's shrinking isn't mobility but the driver.