Elon Musk’s pedestal is crumbling, exposing Tesla risks

I'm still bullish on anything Musk does. EVs are going to be big business and so are batteries/solar panels. And building the gigafactory and supercharger network was very smart.

The one exception is the Autopilot, which I think he's overhyping as much as everyone else is (wrongfully so). That overhyping is going to put lives at risk, because even if it saves lives in most situations where perhaps a human wouldn't be able to do the same, I think there are also "unexpected" situations for the car's AI that a human could've prevented. Until that changes, I don't think self-driving capabilities should be hyped up as much as they are now. And hyping them up with footnotes saying human drivers should pay attention regardless of the AI feature is so much worse.

Someone put it quite nicely in a comment I saw on Reddit: "I want the self-driving car to be better than the best human driver, not better than the *average human driver."