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“#Will Tesla survive Elon Musk\u2019s bumbling leadership?<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

Incompetent isn\u2019t a word you\u2019d normally use to describe one of the most financially successful human beings in history, but here we are. Yes, I\u2019m talking about billionaire business magnate Elon Musk.<\/p>\n

On the one hand, Musk has a brilliant once-in-a-generation intellect. He\u2019s the architect and driving force behind several incredibly successful tech companies ranging from PayPal to SpaceX. Musk is the epitome of a big-picture person<\/i> with the vision and gumption to take far-fetched, pie-in-the-sky ideas and ground them in reality. <\/span><\/p>\n

Open AI<\/a>, a company he helped found, is responsible for GPT-3, the world\u2019s most advanced text generator. Neuralink<\/a>, another science<\/a>-based business of his, is attempting to make brain-computer interfaces. And Tesla, well we all know how Tesla\u2019s doing:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Viewed through the lens of the stock market and Musk\u2019s massive cultish following of sycophants on social media<\/a>, one would be forgiven for thinking he\u2019s the second coming of Henry Ford mixed with Albert Einstein and, well, Nikola\u00a0Tesla. <\/span><\/p>\n

But here\u2019s the rub: All three of those comparisons are ridiculous. Henry Ford focused his energy and passion on his singular purpose. Musk\u2019s attention is split between his numerous companies, maintaining his<\/span> Bro Leader One<\/i> image on social media and in celebrity circles, and spending what app<\/a>ears to be the majority of his time trolling those who disagree with any of his business decisions<\/a>, firebrand political ideas<\/a>, or social opinions<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Albert Einstein was an educated scientist and a leading expert in his domain (physics), while Musk is an engineer and a jack-of-all-trades when it comes to technology<\/a>. And, Tesla, well, even Musk says he prefers Edison to Tesla<\/a> due to the Nikola\u2019s lack of marketing savvy and lesser popularity in the public eye.<\/p>\n

Musk\u2019s interests appear to increasingly lie beyond science, technology, and engineering. His discourse has become so unhinged in recent years that Grimes, his partner and the mother of his child, has gone on the record<\/a> to inform people that she doesn\u2019t believe Musk is a \u201cmen\u2019s right activist,\u201d but that he\u2019s just \u201creally immature.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Yet, realistically, who cares if Elon Musk\u2019s right-leaning commentary has led to him coming out as an anti-science misinformation\u00a0peddler, right wing radical ideologist, and misogynist? Even when he goes off the deep end and accuses someone of pedophilia, without evidence and eventually admitting having no basis for the accusation<\/a> other than a desire to harm the reputation of someone who disagreed with him, Musk\u2019s investors and the boards of the companies he runs don\u2019t care. <\/span><\/p>\n

Until they do. <\/span><\/p>\n

Musk\u2019s comments often get him in regulatory trouble<\/a>. His long-time feud with the SEC has threatened Tesla on more than one occasion, and recent comments on everything from Gamestop to Bitcoin<\/a> have caused shuffles in markets that have financial experts worried about Musk-created bubbles forming in a fragile post-COVID economy. <\/span><\/p>\n

But, again, Musk\u2019s supporters can easily shrug that off. Take a gander back up there at that Tesla stock image. If it makes you smile, you\u2019re already convinced. There\u2019s nothing I, or anyone else, can ever say to shake your faith in Musk\u2019s magic.<\/span><\/p>\n

For everyone else, however, I invite you to cast your vision forward.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tesla\u2019s the only car company still betting that pure computer vision<\/a> will solve autonomous driving. Experts in artificial intelligence \u2013 experts who, like Einstein, specialize in science-based solutions instead of market-based hype \u2013 believe Musk and Tesla are barking up the wrong tree<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

In response, Musk often claims his competitors are \u201crelying\u201d on LIDAR and thus \u201cdoomed to fail.<\/a>\u201d Yet, to the best of my knowledge, the only autonomous vehicle company relying on a single-pronged approach is Tesla and its vision-only method.<\/p>\n

Worse, Tesla\u2019s the only vehicle company forcing the general<\/a> public to participate in unregulated experiments with its customers in control of its technology.<\/p>\n

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BlueCruise! We tested it in the real world, so our customers don\u2019t have to. pic.twitter.com\/dgqVkWH31r<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Jim Farley (@jimfarley98) April 14, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Worse, Musk\u2019s supporters believe he\u2019s captured the market on consumer-facing self-driving cars by innovating and engineering solutions to arrive first<\/em>. But, here\u2019s the problem with that: there\u2019s a dozen companies out there that could easily implement a system comparable to Tesla\u2019s \u201cAutopilot\u201d and \u201cFull Self Driving.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Those technologies are well within Google\u00a0and Apple\u2019s purview (did we all forget that Google and Waymo are sister companies and that the GANfather, Ian Goodfellow, works at Apple now?). I\u2019d even be willing to wager Nvidia could toss together a Tesla-equivalent autonomous vehicle system in a matter of months if it chose to as well. Deep learning and computer vision aren\u2019t new or particularly difficult in 2021.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So, why aren\u2019t they? The short answer: because Autopilot and Full Self Driving don\u2019t work. No other vehicle manufacturer is willing to put a potentially deadly product out on the streets ahead of regulation that doesn\u2019t even function properly<\/a>. The reasons for this are myriad, but here\u2019s two very important ones:<\/span><\/p>\n

People keep dying in Tesla vehicles because they don\u2019t follow the clear directions to always keep their hands on the wheel and their eyes on the road. Yet, Elon Musk has been seen on camera<\/a> several times taking his attention off the road and his hands off the wheel to prove how \u201csafe\u201d they are.<\/span><\/p>\n