“The software guys,” Miro says with a smile, “aren’t human.”
The Croatians, you quickly learn, are a nation of plain speakers. Even about their own co-workers. Miro Zrnčević is Rimac’s chief test driver, a big, bluff guy who loves cars and has one of the key tasks on the company’s long-awaited Nevera: locating the soul of a machine whose colossal abilities are corralled by a frenzy of ones and zeroes, like the opening credits of The Matrix.
This has sent him on a journey of discovery in parallel with the software guys. “It’s very strange,” he continues, “because during development I would drive the car and give them feedback. They would stare at the data on their laptops and say, ‘Is this better?’ And it would be, despite the fact…
