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Originally Posted by AnalogMan
I agree with you, both that most major businesses are started by people with that kind of personality, and I'd also buy a seat on one of his rockets if I had the money.
What to me crosses the line is intentional behavior that knowingly causes harm to other people. Musk is certainly brilliant. He knows exactly what he is doing by naming his systems 'AutoPilot' and 'Full Self Driving'. He's doing it to sell more cars, and not to help anyone but himself (and Tesla shareholders that happen to be along for the ride). He also knows that people grossly abuse the systems, and that people are getting hurt, and dying, as a result.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2021/03...fety-standads/
He's doing it anyway, because I don't think he cares about any person in the world other than himself (another parallel with my old boss).
It's one thing to be obsessively driven to dominate and not take no for an answer. You're right, it's hard to build a successful major business without those traits. But I don't think that it's ever justifiable to do things that knowingly will result in injuries and deaths.
But that's just me. I'm strange that way (in many ways...). I naively think that a human life is worth more than money, because it is irreplaceable. |
So you think Elon Musk came up with the name Autopilot and FSD mode and was solely responsible for its implementation at Tesla? You seem to think Musk is a one man show, using his position to run the whole company.
I already stated Tesla removed people from the beta. Isn’t that direct counter-evidence to your claims that Tesla/Musk doesn’t care? The system already requires engagement. Like seats belts, there are chimes, and like seat belts, the car doesn’t stop when someone doesn’t wear their seat belts, removes their airbags, accelerates too aggressively, turns off their traction control, follows too close to drivers at speed or goes over the speed limit. All manufacturers clearly don’t care, orrrrrrrrr maybe manufacturers give warnings, but don’t try to control the buyers of their products—personal responsibility.