Tesla Is Dropping the Dream of Human-Free Self-Driving Cars (opens in new tab)

Damn it!

I was hoping to be run over by one of them so I could claim a substantial insurance payout.

List of predictions for autonomous Tesla vehicles by Elon Musk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_predictions_for_autono...

My favourite, May 2023

"I mean, it does look like [full autonomy is] gonna happen this year. ... Well, we're now at the point where the car can drive on highways and in cities with and where a human dimension is extremely rare. So I mean, just – I was able to drive for several days, just dropping a navigation pin in random locations in the Greater Austin area with no interventions. And the same in San Francisco, which is a very difficult place to drive."

With luck and a lot of bullshit, he will have a colony on mars in a few months.

And the most amazing part --- the BS has actually worked.

Tesla now has a market capitalization of $1.4 TRILLION --- more than all the other major car brands in the world COMBINED (US+Germany+Japan+Korea).

All while commanding only about 10% of *EV* sales world wide --- and falling.

The scale of the BS is kinda unbelievable.

https://companiesmarketcap.com/automakers/largest-automakers...