I... I'm still really not sure what happened.
But, counter to most of my feedback most of the time, this was a happy sort of confusion, as I was frequently laughing out loud, particularly at the sentencing for the speeding ticket--using the current laws and extrapolating to a life sentence based on the incremental punishment scheme so that the speeding ticket was a life sentence.
And the fact that no one appeared to blink an eye at 6000 mph speed. The fact that anyone could even SENSE a vehicle going that speed. That's about 1.7 MILES PER SECOND. No radar gun would be able to get multiple pings on that to sense a speed, no police car could catch up to it, and I'm pretty sure that even if the earth's surface were completely smooth and featurelessjust trying to follow the curve of the earth at that speed would kill a human passenger from the the acceleration required to stay on the planet, and would be even worse if you wanted to dodge surface features that would leave you vaporized. But that's the point, the whole story comes across as hallucinatory and I thought that was fun, so the complete mundanity with which the court accepted this absurd speed, or the fact that he was even apprehended in the first place made no sense and I loved it.
A lot of fun little details, the jealous car AI, the brain worm hypochondria obsession, the peyote church defense. I thought it was super super fun, and given the nature of the story, my complete confusion was a feature not a bug.