• The electric car pioneer had Q3 revenues of $615 million. This quarter's revenue did not include any ZEV credit sales but did include $15 million in regulatory credits.
• The automaker sold a record 6,892 Model S vehicles during the period and expects to ship 35,000 Model S units in 2014.
• Tesla's gross margin of 25.2 percent is in line with expectations. By the end of this year, the automotive supplier expects gross margin closer to 28 percent.
• The supercharger network has been built across most of the U.S. and northwest Europe.
• GAAP losses of $16 million for the quarter on revenue of $615 million
• Expecting over 55 percent vehicle delivery growth in 2014 and 28 percent automotive gross margin by Q4

• The Model S was the top-selling vehicle in North America among comparably priced cars.
• Toward the end of the year, Tesla expects sales in Europe and Asia combined to be almost twice that of North America.
• Tesla believes an automotive gross margin of 28 percent, excluding ZEV credit sales, is "a reasonable target for Q4 2014."
• Tesla claims that 80 percent of its customers are using their Model S as their primary vehicle.

• Tesla expects to deliver over 35,000 Model S vehicles in 2014, representing more than 55 percent growth over 2013. Production is expected to increase from 600 cars/week presently to about 1,000 cars/week by end of the year as Tesla expands its factory capacity and addresses supplier bottlenecks. Battery cell supply will continue to constrain production in the first half of the year, but will improve significantly in the second half of 2014.
• First-quarter production is expected to be about 7,400 vehicles.

The immediate, specific, and tactical answer to the question of “Why don’t we make safe and accessible sidewalks a priority?” has to do with a panoply of thorny and interrelated fiscal, legal, and property issues.

But the holistic, general, and strategic answer to that question is simply this: our culture does not value or respect people on foot the way that it does people behind the wheels of cars. To be clear, this cultural orientation is not the result of conscious antipathy toward pedestrians, or an intentional organized conspiracy to disenfranchise or disrespect the marginalized and the poor. Instead, it’s simply the way that our society has evolved over the past 60 years, as the automobile has achieved near complete dominance as a mode of transportation – at least for the affluent majority.

I discuss this issue with people all of the time, and often hear people say “Why waste the time or money on this? No one walks anyway.” My translation: “I don’t walk anywhere, no one that I know walks anywhere, and since I occupy a place of privilege in society, I really don’t notice anyone that does walk.”

In addition to being patently false, the generalization “no one walks anyway” misses the point entirely. Social equity and fairness in transportation is not about a tunnel-vision view of the needs of the majority that drives, considered in a vacuum; but rather, about looking out for the needs of the minority that does not drive.