When presenting the world with a flying car, one doesn't need much extra charisma, the demo does it all. I think most people would be pretty excited (or full of themselves) knowing what they were about to show.

Tesla presentations (and Musk presentations generally) have always been weirdly awkward.

As an engineer who dislikes polished presentations of unimpressive things, it encourages me that it’s still possible to do a bad presentation about an amazing thing and (most) people don’t grumble too much.

really weirdly awkward

> it felt unnatural and cringey.

No way?! Elon Musk? Unnatural and cringey?!